RoboBunny: Creation
Kidrobot is a company I have admired in the art world for a very long time. As the first real mainstream vinyl art toy company to step onto the market, they created a niche for multimedia artists to bend and test their skills, bringing character designs and other worldly concepts to life. In 2007, they released their first “Blank” Munny, a toy that serves to this day as a canvas for many artists around the world, and where the story of RoboBunny Begins.
Recently, like many others, I have been swallowed into the world of Fallout 76. One thing they have done recently in the game I appreciated was adding holiday themed challenges into the world. I thought this was a very clever way of keeping the audience captivated in this post apocalyptic wasteland, where as other fallouts have really instilled that long drawn out loneliness and unknown passage of time. Because of the recent Deathclaw Easter Egg Hunt, I felt as if some of the other industry giants might want to get in on the Holiday Fun; That is what inspired RobCo’s RoboBunny.
Based on the classic RoboBrain design, this interpretation is very New Vegas meets Easter. The body began as a Blank Munny from Kidrobot, It was then dissected at the base of the head, and the bottom legs were removed. This process felt very mad science, so I made sure to dawn a black apron and some latex gloves for the occasion.
Note: Latex gloves should always be work when working with resin or any type of adhesive chemicals.
After the horrific murder of the Blank Vinyl Munny, I proceeded to coat the body of the RoboBunny in a metallic acrylic paint, and set it aside to dry to get to work on the details for the fishbowl. The brain was sculpted out of clay and painted in various layers of airbrush ink. I created the tubes for the ears and the spinal column out of electrical tape and neon glowing paint. I wanted a neon tube effect to glow out from the resin once it has been casted, and luckily I had a roll of electrical tape nearby to test out “rolling” into tubes. The easiest way I found in the end to recreate this tube like appearance was to very carefully cut sections of tape and roll it around a thin piece of string.
The crystals protruding from the fishbowl were each individually cast in resin and applied post-process to the finished product. The brain apparatus was also submerged in a clear epoxy resin solution to create the rabbit ear fish bowl that encases the brain, tubes, and “green goo” famous to this classic design.
This was a really fun project and I am happy with the results, The Vinyl Art Piece will be on display in my Portfolio Gallery, and the Original will be available for purchase in the Shop!
All Artwork Original and (c) Ashe Wolf, 2019
