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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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u shud add sum buttons to the tv head to make him look slightly different
I've had a thing for people with television faces since the 80's and I've got my own square-headed characters. Naturally then, I've been thinking alot about where I've gotten my ideas, and just how much they're visually inspired by FLCL... mine are robots, wheras remo seems more human, but either way:
Practicing installation video artists have placed televisions on manequins since the 70's, and the basic shape of a cube on a pair of shoulders is a deviation from the expected that's been used by artists and ad-directors alike for years. We're so used to seeing something round up there that a square seems daring and cool - as Huey Lewis, along with his band 'The News' said: "It's hip to be square". Too bad hip doesn't mean much in our current street vocabulary.
Ahem.
'Mike the TV' from reboot first got me drawing square heads, and I even made a super-hero in highschool called "robot man" - he was a human with the head of a robot... one of those tin-toy robot ones. His super power was doing whatever a robot can do - which is, ironically I suppose, only to mimic man. A quandry to be sure...
Fast forward to FLCL and Dead Leaves and you've got a pair of bona-fide awesome television headed characters... which (as I previously mentioned) are by no means the first bipedal uprights to have their shoulders graced by the six-sided marvel of a cube.
Style-wise, this reminds me of Jamie Hewlett's Gorillaz illustrations and animations, but mainly in remo's pose and proportions. I think that beyond that, 'remo' is as much your own as 'Canti' and 'Retro' are the property of I.G. Productions, and as much as 'Joe XO' and 'Flow Nine' are the property of myself,
Heck, that could even be a square helmet that your man is wearing.
Point is, I like it alot! Keep it up!