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Take a look at the video below. If you hadn’t saw the headline of this news, you never guessed that speech it’s not about a live cat, but about the most “ordinary” (of course, unusual) soft toy. The author of such amazing works of art is an artist named Miru from the Japanese city of Tokushima. His woolen animals are so similar to real ones that they even follow surrounding eyes thanks to the outlandish optical illusion.
The world that today has become a real celebrity in Japanese social media, says that he discovered art creating unusual soft toys in 2010 when viewing random television show. The man was so impressed with that shown on screen creativity that the same day began to study on the Internet the subtleties of this skill, then acquired a lot of training books. Now, after 8 years of daily practice, the Japanese have demonstrated to their compatriots, and then to all the inhabitants of the Earth works, and few remain indifferent at the sight of super-realistic stuffed cats, which are almost impossible distinguish from the living.
According to Miru, the biggest trick of his work is to to constantly improve their creations. Creating another toy, the artist leaves it in a conspicuous place and taken for the next. Day after day, the Japanese are watching their the brainchild and begins to notice various tiny details that distinguish a woolen cat from a real one. Then our hero returns to the toy and continues to bring it to mind.
According to the artist, in this case the limit of improvement just not, you can work on almost every toy endlessly, until she really becomes alive …
Cats Artists Japan
