A Robot for Petunia

Still feeling a bit unclean just having that last post lingering on my blog. So I guess I better write and try to force it down the page.

My little Petunia's 2nd birthday is coming up in less than a month, and I need to focus a bit on her birthday book.

Last year, I created this little story using Microsoft clip art. I found I could "ungroup" parts of the clip art and rearrange the limbs of Larry the Penguin in order to better pose him for each page.

This year, I'm going to take that a little further. We've borrowed a couple fun books about robots from the library which she has enjoyed ("Hello Robots" and "Robots Everywhere"), so I went to MS Clipart online and searched for images I could use.

One struck me, but unfortunately when I downloaded and ungrouped him, it turned out the black outline of his body is one un-ungroupable piece. So no posing.

Luckily, he is actually a pretty simple character, so I've recreated him using simple shapes in MS Powerpoint. (Original on the left, my preliminary character on the right).

Not a bad start. I can easily add in the lights and control-panel in the main body later.

I think I may rework his feet, though, they are a little too claw-like.

Anway, I have established a main character. Now I just need a name, and some sort of rudimentary plot.


I also resorted to mostly premade backgrounds in last year's book, but would like to step up the creativity on that end as well.