Today I went to LOG-ON and had the luck to meet Shin Kitai (the master
behind devilrobots.com) and all the collaborating designers.
There was a drawing/signing event which after you purchased their
T-shirts, you could ask them to drawing their characters on it.
The story of Devilrobots goes like
this. 9 years ago Shin Kitai participated in a character design
competition in Japan and he won wide recognition of his character TO-FU
OYAKO, which has a lot of facial expression and even though it looks a
bit sad but it is afterall loveable.
The TO-FU God came to LOG-ON (http://www.citysuper.com.hk) today and in
collaboration of 8 Hong Kong local character designers/artists, created
this small scale exhibition, T-shirt drawing/signing event and press
interview.
I had the luck to meet him and had all the designers drew their
character on a T-shirt I purchased. I also took polaroid pictures of
them and had them signed!
"I am Shin, one of the founder of the DEVILROBOTS and I am an art
director, as you know, I create all of the characters. Some people call
me the TO-FU GOD"
"We grew up watching super robot animations, and we wanted to give our
name a strong impact. We are not Angels, so we named our self DEVIL and
we love ROBOTS, so these two words combined and became DEVILROBOTS."
Shin Kitai's Websites: http://www.devilrobots.com/, http://www.tofu-oyako.com/
The T-shirt I got, having Shin Kitai drew on the back and other 8 designers drew on the front in their own rectangles.
After the event, some of the designers left, the rest took this nice picture pretending to sign on Shin's T-shirt.
I didn't bring enough Polaroid films so I could only ask several of them to take pictures and sign on the photos for me.
Devilrobots also produces characters/figures,
stationery like eraser (shown in this pic) and files. I can't
believe I can be a child again by going through all these characters,
Kenny Wong's Molly is so cute and I love it. Ultraman James Fong
has some very cool metallic figures (do check out his blog), Tim Tsui's
cool look is reflected on his character, .....
******* Collaborating Designers/Artists *******
Winson Ma: www.winsoncreation.com/
Kenny Wong: www.kennyswork.com/
William Tsang: www.wworkshop.biz.com.hk/
Ultraman James Fong: www.ultra2020.com/
Toby Yeung: www.cubemen.com/
Alice Chan: www.asterialand.com/
Tim Tsui: www.teamzero.com.hk
Danny Chan: www.indhk.com/
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