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Hisayuki Takagi / en

takagi.jpgHisayuki Takagi(wildcard) / 4scandals

Q1: Lets begin with your brief background and what lead you to start your current job.
My background
*highschool:
Cutting-edge music video of Toshio Iwai inspired me to do something in the computer graphics field. It was pretty tuff to choose between the art school and the engineering school
for college but my choice was to go Kobe University's department of computer and systems engineering.
*college:1995-
My college years are entirely devoted to organizing club events and doing VJ. The connections I've made through doing VJ gave me couple video related jobs.
Then I couldn't get enough credit to graduate but it did not stop me. Encounter to the websites such as "yugop.com" and "praystation.com"
reminded me that that is what I want to do. By the end of the year, I've got many web and video jobs lined up and barely manage to graduate from the college.
*after graduation:2000-
Wondering around for about a year. Started out from the trip to Holland and went around Europe, launched "wildcard.jp.org", and tried submitting for various design competitions.
I have also made my working connection I have today through the net-surfing around this time such as raku-gaki.com.

*coming to Tokyo:2001-
Moved to Tokyo and worked for a design firm where people from "samohung"、"tarout" and "h808" worked. I joined that firm to get to know those cool people but they all quit right after, so I just followed them. Luckily enough, with the support of many people, I have managed to live as a freelance web designer since then.
*today 2005-
Started to share office with the group of freelancers such as....
http://39.img8.com
http://www.motla.com
http://raku-gaki.com
wildcard.jp.org

Q2: Tell us about your recent activities.
I do planning, art-directing(or being art-directed), flash coding and designing.

Q3：Who have influenced you the most or who do you respect?
Toshio Iwai, Yugo Nakamura, Tomato, buddies from 4sca, and Doraemon.

Q4： How many hours a day do you spend in front of your computer?
about 12 hours.

Q5：Which one do you like better, Motion Tween or Shape Tween?
I like it both. With these two plus script, I choose the convenient one depending on the case.

Q6. What is your best song to boost up your moods?
Silent is the best for deep concentration.

Q7：What are the 3 things you have to have in your book bag everyday?
Wallet, cigarette, and cellphone. I like to keep myself light.

Q8： If you did not end up being involved in the web businesses, what do you think you would be.
a nomad.

Q9：If you can move abroad today, where would that be and why?
Europe. Their mixed culture attract me. Europe. Because their mixed culture attract me.

Q10：Tell us about your secret specialty.
I can also do the mimicry of Umichin of Yonsukya. like “hehe” and “hehehe”

Q11: For the last question, what do you have planned in near future and what you want to do.
Infrastructures of outputting to the world outside of the web browser using familiar tool to me like Flash have been established that i would like to work more on this field like collaboration with architechts and tv related jobs. Setting “communication”, “inteface” and “interaction” as the core keyword, I would love to try everything that interest me.


translation by Rika Goto

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