AS for the bigger idea with the little “package mockery”, I thought it would be hillarious to come up with characters, who could represent them, but not necessarily for only negative reasons, but really to illustrate what the represent as a whole. Because there’s a truth in this, which could be used to make some really funny visuals and illustrate certain points that could turn it into a geeky type of animated/illustrated stand-up-comedy routine…so to say…
Example:
Maya…big girl that has everything in and on her…gadgets to make coffee, mow the lawn, plant trees, move mountains, launch rockets, view microbes, lazercut steel…but it’s so heavy that it can’t quite move forward that fast…it might even trip a little to the side every once in a while, or stuff just hangs for a moment to come forward after digging through everything to get to a specific device!
Houdini…a whole science-lab and stuff strapped around it with tubes, torches, microscope, blackboard, calculators of all sort, amazing mathematical forms floating around it and everyone has to focus real, real hard to understand a single word it says or to even know how to ask it for anything!
3dsMax…crippled little Frankenstein at it’s core and glorious devices like parasites attached to it from all sides, doing all record-breaking things, almost ignoring the poor little critter they are attached to. If you ask it for anything, at least two or three of the parasites answer at the same time with different attempts to tell you the same thing, highly efficient, but somehow morbid.
Lightwave3d…proud guy, kind of overweight, patches all over the place, some ingrown parasites that don’t speak anymore for themselves, limping, one eye closed, the other one frantically looking around. It does occasional bursts to immediately respond to what it’s asked to do but totally takes of in the other direction once it comes close to where it was supposed to go.
Blender…I somehow feel that it should simply be a canadian. I know it’s not, but…from a US standpoint, I think canadian, yeah…that’s all…it’s not big either, but I’d love to see it in the mix.
XSI…cold robot, who does look shiny and clean, but you can’t help but recognize these obvious similarities with some of the devices the Maya character was running around with. It destainfully but correctly answers to questions it wants to answer. It has shiningly clean sockets for parasites to hook on to…it moves, but only when it wants to, even if it does it quickly then, unless it is asked to do something it doesn’t want to do.
messiah3d…a little workbench with a few rusty tools and trophies and some shiny fresh muscles here and there. It can run like the devil, is curious about everything but not always clever enough to get it all, but what it knows, it knows very well and totally digs to answer. It’s kind of lurking in the shadows most of the time and has a little side-kick “mini-me” that still acts like a parasite and hooks into the big guys when it is asked to. It knows a few things that the big guys can’t quite handle, but nobody quite realizes it yet…right next to this secret is a feeding tube or a coin-slot (hahaha)…but as long as the secret is hidden, nobody knows where to throw in the coins to make it stronger. Hehe…yeah. So there are some lights glowing inside of it, too, woozzing around and filling it up and overtime you can see how new things show up on the outside…hehe…eh…I’m totally getting carried away, arn’t I?!
Anyway…oh MAN, what the…I spend half an hour writing that nonsense…bizarre…but fun!
Yeah…that would be a cool big one to do…ha…I think. To be continued…
