Desktop Pet

Oba is a character I've been doodling for years — a small figure that appears across sketchbooks and margins. This project started with the simple want to have him walk around my screen.

I found an original Japanese Shimeji-ee desktop pet application from the early 2000s and converted its character assets to Oba, redrawing each animation frame to match the character's design vocabulary.

The result is a small, persistent desktop companion that walks, climbs windows, and reacts to the environment — a piece of personal character work made interactive.