Last year, GuitarAtomik sang, Rio McCarthy made a bunch of awesome, Necros was racist, itemforty drew the staff, RockVillian made a prologue, CannibalCalvin was creepy, LarkOhiya made a Destructoid in Halo 3, DJDuffy made an animation, Butmac got really drunk and Ceark made the Destructoid graphic novel.
A lot of awesome happened last year, so it was pretty hard thinking of something to top all those incredible efforts. I finally thought of something a couple of months ago and
called for artists from the Destructoid community to work together on a special project.
The idea originally was for the artists to just make their own version of the Destructoid robot and bring all the different Destructoids together into one picture. In the e-mail I sent to the 40 plus artists that volunteered, I made an off-hand joke that we should make a children's alphabet book instead. After laughing at my own joke for a little while, I kept thinking about it and realized an alphabet book themed after Destructoid sounded brilliant. So, that's what we have here now.
The aim of the anniversary project was for everyone to draw their own version of the Destructoid robot and relate their image to a letter, symbol, number or made up icon of their choice. Obviously, there were more than 26 people on this project so we unofficially added some new "letters" to the English alphabet.
Here’s a breakdown of everyone that submitted an image to the project:
A made by Hoygeit
B made by ElectroLemon
C made by Justice
D made by Mikey
E made by ZombiePlatypus
F made by Topher Cantler
G made by Ashley Davis
H made by Welkstar
I made by Stella
J made by Haxan
K made by GamingGoddess
L made by DJDuffy
M made by RioMcCarthy
N made by Vonneuton
O made by ImpossiblePlant
P made by Togail
Q made by deiga-the-semivalant
R made by Silverhertz
S made by DanlHaas
T made by ScaryWomanizngPigMask
U made by GuitarAtomik
Y made by ElectroLemon
Z made by theGAMEGOBLIN
Ñ made by Teta
! made by aborto thefetus
$ made by Primo
1/10 made by TrailerParkJesus
6 made by Rider Chop
<3 made by .tiff
Big thanks goes out to EVERYONE that was involved with this project, especially to Haxan who helped a few people with coloring and creating rhymes.
The project isn’t over yet though! As you can see, a few letters aren’t represented as some people had to drop out or just couldn’t submit something in time. Plus more random letters, symbols and numbers are more than welcome. I will continue to accept submissions to the Destructoid children’s alphabet book until May 16. If you have an idea for a page, then please drop me an e-mail and we’ll make something happen. After May 16, the cover page and the credits page for the book will be created as well and I will turn this into an actual physical book!
Happy birthday Niero and happy birthday Destructoid!
Contest:
11:00 PM on 03.15.2009
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I FUCKING LOVE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
And I can't wait to have this book sitting on my shelf. I mean stickers and t-shirts are cool and all, but a freaking Destructoid book. Wow, just wow.
Also, I got to learn frecnh :P
I am at a loss for words. I do believe the only proper description would be "The most Epic Win ever crafted".
The Robot one is epic. Is that a Samit bot on the right? Using a magnifying glass to find grammar and spelling errors?
Also, I eagerly await W is for Wolves.
Mine sucked @_@
That is sweet I can't wait for the finished product
i love each and every one of the letters, but i really love F, G, U and <3
Also, Tubatic, W for Wolves is a great idea.
I <3 DTOID
Also C'mon "r is for robots is amazing" but
R is for retro the thing that we love
the games that showed us what we now know
Home of the force that always Goes.
With Diet Pepsi and Pizza Rolls
Dolphins and Chocobos and all that jazz
but X-box live sucked and there's no sale on my yard
Yeah that wasn't very good, but you get the idea
I enjoyed doing my letter so much, I'm considering taking one of the left over letters..
I'm not sure if I'd let my kids peruse this, though.
"Daddy, what's 'cocks'?"
"Well, uh..they're...w..."
>_>;
Feeling serious regret for being too busy to contribute to this now :(
Happy Birthday Dtoid!
Things like this are what makes Destructoid better than every other community out there.
Because we're the only ones who are actually a community.
That was incredible.