toys.thepete.com Chyuu-san Vimobot

toys.thepete.com Chyuu-san, originally uploaded by thepetecom.

This is my second entry into Mimoco's Vimobot design contest (check out my other here: toys.thepete.com/toysthepetecom-end-life-crisis). The only part of this guy that I'm not happy with was that I didn't just do the kanji on his face in Sharpie. I cheated by printing it out and then glue-sticking it to his face. Sad. "Chyuu" means loyalty in Japanese. Since the eventual goal was to have these designs turned into thumb drives, what better adjective to describe a thumb drive?

Chyuu-san was done with my standard weapon of choice, the Sharpie. I used a small screwdriver to hold him steady (you can see the metal rod part of the screwdriver in some of the shots).

I still like the idea of replacing faces with kanji, so I may reuse this element some time in another piece. Either way, I'm generally happy with the way this came out (despite it not winning the damn Mimoco contest). I do plan on doing the kanji-face with a Sharpie at some point--I was just on a deadline. :)

Check out the full Flickrset, including progress shots and an early sketch, here:
flickr.com/photos/thepete/sets/72157601666770824/

toys.thepete.com: End Life Crisis

toys.thepete.com: End Life Crisis, originally uploaded by thepetecom.

I designed this for the Mimoco DIY Vimobot contest. I didn't even place :( But I'm happy with the design nonetheless. I think I do pretty well with a few sharpies and some vinyl. :)

See, the idea of the contest was to create a design that would be used for one of their thumb drives. My thought was that the metal electrocution cap on this guy would be the cap of the USB so when you plugged ELC into your USB port, he'd look like he was all nervous about being plugged into your computer--like the 3 volts a USB port puts out was going to kill him.

I guess not everyone has the same sense of humor about capital
punishment that I do.

Check out more pics of my End Life Crisis piece, including progress shots and even some original sketches for this and other Vimobot designs, in the Flickrset for this project:

flickr.com/photos/thepete/sets/72157601673268083/