ポストマンパット Postman Pat Transformer

As soon as we spotted this toy in the Argos catalog, me and Stacey knew this was the GREATEST TOY EVER. There is a Fireman Sam one as well!

So for Christmas for a laug...no, FOR GREAT JUSTICE, I got Stacey one and this (below) was her Xmas card. Yes, we're bonkers.

I made it to look like a box from an old Japanese tin toy box (see this post I made about my love for these from a few years back), they always have such cool artwork on them.

This was also a bit of an experiment at drawing in photoshop with no line art, just a sketch underneath to work with. Was quite fun to do, may do this technique again some time! The font was drawn up in Flash using this video as a reference for writing Postman Pat in Japanese. Hopefully I haven't drawn it wrong and it translates to Poopman Pot or something!

But that's not all! Just yesterday we decided to mess around with the toy using the stop motion feature of the PS3's EyeCreate software, which lead to the nonsense you see below.

Stacey animated the really smooth arm bits and the pelvic thrusting. The green card was an attempt at green screening but it didn't really work too well so I didn't bother. Music is from the Postman Pat game on the Amiga.