How a caterpillar inspired the main visual for Tokyo Game Show 2014

The main visual for Tokyo Game Show 2014 has been unveiled, and according to artist Ippei Gyoubu, it was inspired by a caterpillar.

Caterpillars change, and that is the theme of this year’s show: “change” and “transformation.”

The tagline for the show is "Changing Games: The Transformation of Fun.”

“I created this year’s main visual by visualizing the ‘emergence’ based on the keyword ‘change/transformation’ in the theme,” Gyoubu said in a statement. “A caterpillar becomes a chrysalis, breaks down its body and reconstructs itself to be bornas a completely different creature.

“In a gaming world, technological innovation has evolved in the last 10 years and now that we’ve passed through the revolutions such as internet, social media and smartphone, I feel that we’ve come close to the time of the birth of a completely new world with all those revolutions blending well. I created this visual based on that feeling.

"This main visual expresses the ambiguity of whether the visual is a reflection of the metal or not, it’s a flat graphic or not, it’s stereoscopic or planar, and she’s a human or a robot.”

The Tokyo Game Show takes place in Chiba September 18 - 21.

Thanks, Gematsu.