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The 31th of may Kidrobot and its judges published the results of the Munnyword Megacontest 2011, and we're glad to announce that our "Vampirized" Munny won in the "Best Minimalist Design" category. In addition, also other two of our customs reached a bit of glory: 2nd place in the "Best Animal Design" category for "Apartment Bat" and 3rd place in the "Most Innovative" category for the "Living City" Munny. Our biggest compliments to the brazilian artist Sergio Mancini for the Best in Show prize.

At the end of april we completed our seven Munny customs (4 inches) for the Munnyworld Megacontest organized by Kidrobot. They're now online on the contest's website, and everyone can see them  and "like" them on page 3 (scrolling down to the middle of the page). At the end of may, Kidrobot will reveal the main winner and the winners of each category (click here).

Our designs are: "Sand snake's dinner" (an "unlucky Munny"), "Living City", "Apartment Bat", "Vampirized" (another "unlucky Munny"), "Cupboard dweller", "Munny's Freedom" (the marionette Munny) and "Concrete cleaner".

The 23th of april 2011 we went to Fribourg (CH), after passing a selection in march, to realize a Munny custom during the Asphalt Kreatorz contest at the Cafè Le XXeme. We realized a double coustom using the 7 inches Munny (Kidrobot), provided by the organizators, and a 4 inches Munny, that we transformed in a Dunny. 

We used a quick drying modelling paste, spray paint, markers and so on, and in 7 hours we created our personal interpretation about the controversial genesis of the two characters. :-P ...so the big Munny became a sort of Egg and the small Munny (transformed in a Dunny) became the little chick coming out from the egg. The organizators gave us the first place. :-)

Which came first, the Munny or the Dunny?

It's almost two months that we're not publishing on our blog, but we are making a lot of works at the same time and there's nothing ready to be posted. The only one is the custom toy we made for the "Custom Session II" at the Café la Veme of Vevey the 20th of november 2010.

Our project's name is "Dress Code: The Bunny Party" and it's made on a Toy2R's BuneeQ Qee. As you can see in the pictures (click to enlarge), we realized a strange boy with a pink BuneeQ dress that's going, or coming from, a Bunny Party. ..where there's free QEER to drink! :-)

Oh! Soon we'll produce some to sell! We'll let you know when we're ready!

We finally have all the pictures and videos we need (both by Andrea Todaro) to make this post about the DROP contest in Lausanne where we had to customize a Toy2R's Qee Bear vinyl toy of 20 cm (8 inches). So what happened in Lausanne?

We started preparing our toy around 11 o'clock in the morning, the Characterstation stuff was really kind and there was a nice atmosphere. For every finalist there was a little table where to work, and there was a place to use spray cans without intoxicate other people.

All the other finalist were really quiet and concentrate on theyr work and we needed till 4 o'clok in the afternoon to finish our customization (with its accessories, the camera and the torch). At 6 o'clock in the afternoon the jury decided the winners and our "Oh, What a Strange Thing on my Nose!" arrived 3rd. About it: the basic theme of the entire DROP exhibition was "Black and White". Everyone in every category had to realize something using only black and white and we decided to use them like light and shadow. So, our strange multiple-eyed-Qee it's taking a self-portrait picture to photograph the little strange thing (a ladybug) on its nose and what you see of its face it's because of the flash light.

We're really happy about that because it was a beautiful experience into a beautiful "street art" exposition (DROP) into the beautiful city of Lausanne. We were really satisfied of our work (and the 3rd place) and we saw other people realizing beautiful works (and also the graphics exhibition, the live painting and graffiti).

Here you can see some picture about our work (click on the images to enlarge them), but if you want to see more, visit our Flickr Page, our Facebook album or Characterstation's Facebook Album.