{"id":2166,"date":"2008-10-17T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2008-10-17T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T07:21:00","slug":"monsters-of-breakfast-1-of-5-all-wrapped-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"Monsters of Breakfast (1 of 5): All Wrapped Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><b>The Subject<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Mills\">General Mills<\/a> cereal monsters.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Twist<\/b>: Drawing them in the style of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capcom\">Capcom<\/a>&#8216;s fighting game franchise, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darkstalkers\">Darkstalkers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Reason<\/b>: I love Capcom&#8217;s character design style. Capcom&#8217;s art direction is amongst the most influential in video games in general, and particularly with 2-D fighting games. I often find myself looking at a random character and wondering what it would look like as a character in a Capcom fighting game. So, fusing that mode of thinking with breakfast cereal and the Halloween season, here we are.<\/p>\n<p>First up, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yummy_Mummy\">Yummy Mummy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/cerealymweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/cerealymweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I kept Yummy Mummy&#8217;s basic colors, but rather than giving him multi-colored bandages, I redistributed those colors to parts of his re-designed costume. The added accoutrements are based loosely on those of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anakaris\">Anakaris<\/a> (the mummy character from Darkstalkers). The ceremonial thingy (i think that&#8217;s the technical term) draped over his shoulders looks awkward&#8211;I was trying to emulate the geometric, almost blocky quality of Anakaris&#8217;s design, but it didn&#8217;t quite work out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Subject: General Mills cereal monsters. The Twist: Drawing them in the style of Capcom&#8216;s fighting game franchise, Darkstalkers. The Reason: I love Capcom&#8217;s character design style. Capcom&#8217;s art direction is amongst the most influential in video games in general, and particularly with 2-D fighting games. I often find myself looking at a random character [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-mascots","category-monsters","category-obscure-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}