Imaginary Sweets

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The Shift Tokyo

2022

Imaginary Sweets is a project inspired by questioning how food can be newly experienced in a time of pandemics where new experiences through traveling are limited. The project intends to create a virtual food experience that can broaden the food possibilities beyond the physical limitations. Also, it aims to restore the communication between people through food, especially through sweets that always have the power to make people happy at any age.

Imaginary Sweets are designed to exist in both the physical and virtual worlds. Unlike the usual dessert-making process, they are first designed in a virtual world through Cinema 4D.

The inner part of the dessert has motions that cannot be made in reality. After virtually designing the sweets, we replicated the sweets physically. In the process of creating the real dessert, there were some developments in designs, so that we redesigned the virtual sweets once again in order to make them look similar.

Client:

The Shift Tokyo

year:

2022

My Role:

3D Artist

3D Artist

Designer

Designer

team:

CREATIVE PRODUCER: Toshiyuki Hashimoto

CREATIVE PRODUCER: Toshiyuki Hashimoto

CREATIVE Jr Director: Jiyu Park

CREATIVE Jr Director: Jiyu Park

3D ARTIST/ Visual DESIGNER: Mika Hirata

3D ARTIST/ Visual DESIGNER: Mika Hirata

©2025 Mika Hirata

©2025 Mika Hirata

©2025 Mika Hirata