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The Monster Project

I’ve posted in the past about this awesome project that helps show kids the power of imagination. Without any guidelines elementary school students are asked to draw a monster. The finished drawings are sent to artists around the world who recreate them using  3D illustrations, animations, and paintings. The finished works and then sent back to the children. 

Okay I really like this because a lot of other projects to recreate children’s drawings will follow them EXACTLY, and while the results can be pretty, they’re kinda more for the amusement of adults most of the time than what the kids themselves would probably have wanted.

I feel like this one is less patronizing. I mean, when you’re a kid and you can only draw crudely, you usually still have a much more life-like image in your head. This project is actually validating that, showing these kids that their ideas are what matter, and even demonstrating to them how conceptual design works as a career.

Even many famous series creators aren’t all that skilled at drawing, but I sure didn’t know that when I was a child. I thought I had to have supreme technical skill to be a creator; I thought every person with their name on a cartoon show or video game had to be able to pull off the final designs we were seeing.

I’d have felt really proud of myself if one of my scribbly doodles came back to me as something this complex, like the adults actually understood what I was going for instead of thinking “awww he drew the arms so wrong that’s so cuuute haha”