This weeks harvest breakfast, we all discovered a little bit about the basics of character design, and saw how we can make something with a lot of character out of simple shapes.

In other words, we made a mess with some glue then ate. Is there a better way to start a day?

This guy is one of the candidates in the Behemoth-On-Sea By-Elections over on Felt Mistress.

Looks trustworthy, don’t you think?

Lisa Smith has created the Cute generator. These blobular objects have (from what I can gather) RFID – chips inside that gather and collect information.
This information is the basis for their physical form, so each character is totally unique to it’s user.

What fascinates me about this gets to the core of what character design is all about. We identify abstract shapes readily – (a blob is an eye, a wiggle is a mouth ect) – because it is human nature to project ourselves onto other things. It makes a lot of sense to me that a character could be used as a form of expression of personal identity.

Check out the flikr set here.
Read more about the project here.

edable marzipan critters from the Eugene and Louise Bakery

images from Eugene and Louise.

I dunno how I stumbled across these, but recently I’ve been delving into the world of Bento boxes.

Check out these blogs to see the great character designs that people are packing for lunch.

spluch

bentoblog

happy lunch box

oh and this photo steam

If you are inspired, you could get a few things to kick start your new hobby here.