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Smartii

The Smartii project is for the class: Beautiful Plastic: Creating a Great Designer Toy by Paul Budnitz, Kidrobot Founder.

The concept is of a character that blends a chibi humanoid with old and new tech. I wanted to use the iPhone (smartphone) as a head/body combo. And then blend it with human-like limbs. But it needs the old school rabbit ear antenna for receiving and transmitting data. There's no face, as this is intended to be a platform toy.

 

I used an AI image generator to create a number of iterations to quickly see what they might look like outside of my head. It came close. It still has issues with hands. I wanted to do the 3 finger, 1 thumb hand style, but that didn't compute.  I tried a version with mech hands, as well. This allowed me to experiment quickly and leads me to some things I would refine with an original drawing.

Smartii - image 1 - student projectSmartii - image 2 - student project

Smartii - image 3 - student project