{"id":17941,"date":"2013-01-23T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2013-01-23T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:20:57","slug":"designing-one-new-superhero-every-day-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/designing-one-new-superhero-every-day-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing one new superhero every day for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the <a href=\"http:\/\/365supers.blogspot.com\">365 Supers project<\/a> from Pixar animator\u00a0Everett Downing.\u00a0According to a well illustrated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2012\/12\/365-superheroes\/?pid=1756&amp;viewall=true\">interview<\/a> in Wired,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I got into a rut, I wasn&#8217;t drawing enough and a friend told me I was over-thinking things,&#8221; says Downing. &#8220;I just needed to do something I was really into that wouldn&#8217;t require too much thinking. I started thinking about designing superheroes and the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do it. I threw the gauntlet down and decided to draw a super every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Everett does more than draw, too, dreaming up backstories for the characters. I&#8217;m partial to the teams like married couple &#8220;Ball &amp; Chain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Another unlikely favorite is\u00a0&#8220;Dober-Man and Pincer,&#8221; a silly looking duo with a hilarious history &#8220;Altruistic exotic veterinarian Voss Brown was bitten by a genetically altered rabid doberman and given its approximate powers. He can run as fast as a pinscher and wields a dog-like fury! Together with his pet, Pincher (the now toothless dog that gave him his abilities) they pursue crime with a dogged determination!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Via NPR]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the 365 Supers project from Pixar animator\u00a0Everett Downing.\u00a0According to a well illustrated\u00a0interview in Wired, &#8220;I got into a rut, I wasn&#8217;t drawing enough and a friend told me I was over-thinking things,&#8221; says Downing. &#8220;I just needed to do something I was really into that wouldn&#8217;t require too much thinking. I started thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17941"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}