Caricature Crazy

Over the years, I’ve collected my fair share of personal caricatures. In fact, the Lockergnome logo (itself) was designed and created by me. Back in high school, I mastered the art of drawing myself as a cartoon character. Years later, when I was in college, someone developed a program that would allow you to change your cursor in Windows 3.1 (Plug-In for Windows was the name of that utility). I decided to pixelize my face as a 32×32 monochrome icon. When I started Lockergnome.com, I needed to update that logo - and upgraded it to a 256-color 32×32 icon (pictured here in one of our original 88×31 buttons). A few months went by and a random subscriber suggested that I do t-shirts and other products - what would turn out to be the bane of my very existence (I’ll never carry physical items with my logo again). I enlarged the icon in a much earlier version of Paint Shop Pro, smoothed out the rough spots, and created the Lockergnome logo you see today (and have seen for quite some time).

The caricature you see on my personal blog was drawn by someone else a few years ago, although I’ve since lost touch with him (and wouldn’t know how to get ahold of him for other projects). I did start a conversation with another fantastic graphic artist, and we’ll be working on an independent project together as soon as we can find a sponsor. I also had myself cartoonized when I was the host on TechTV’s Call for Help - although that has been my least favorite caricature. A few weeks ago, I received an email from the husband of Jaguar Woman. She wanted to 3D-ify my likeness! The results have been pretty amazing, as I’ve been transformed into a digital dude - who can assume a variety of poses in a variety of situations with a variety of costumes. That’s my question for you today: what should my 3D character do? Jaguar Woman can make him do whatever, wherever - so we’re only limited by our imaginations. Again, if you could see my caracature doing anything, anywhere - what would that be? C’mon, let’s get crazy with this three dimensional Gnome. Email me your ideas.

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