Astro Boy
Tetsuwan Atomu! This one was harder than it looks; the circle was traced
from a saucepan. Suggested by my pal Geoff in honor of this year being
the one where Astro Boy was supposed to be created. This, like many
photos on this year's page, courtesy Mara.
Melvil Dewey
Yeah, you thought the anime ones weren't nerdy enough? Here's one based
on the dude who invented the Dewey Decimal System. I had to bring in the
snack for cataloguing
class on Halloween, so I made a pumpkin to go with.
Haruko Haruhara
Haruko from FLCL, as recently seen on Cartoon Network. I really like the
odd angle used--that's the right side up, she's just slanted in the
source image.
Giant Robo
Normally, I wouldn't repeat designs, but I did this at Ani-Magic and
didn't got photos before it collapsed, so I decided to redo it. Kind of
a study in why I don't do more mecha (i.e. Gundams or Go Nagai super
robots); their faces are generally too flat and too angular.
Kakashi
The guy everyone likes from Naruto, which I haven't actually seen or
read. Whatever. Did this one as a demo at AWA, and the design
practically drew itself. Photo courtesy Lionel
Lum.
Heat Guy J
Straight from the first DVD cover. Lots of Dremel work on this one;
turned out better than I thought.
Guts
At Emma's suggestion, here's the happiest guy in Midland. See? He's
smiling. Sure. Messed this up a bit, which is the price of it being the
last one out before dark on Halloween.
Boss Borot
That thing about not usually doing robots? Well, there're always
exceptions, especially when they've got unusually expressive faces, it's
already dark, Portugese-speaking trick or treaters are at the door, and
I've got one small round leftover pumpkin but no ideas. Inspiration
struck as I passed the giant robot shelf in the study. It's everyone's
favorite big dumb Go Nagai robot!
Above: My porch, 10/31/2003.