CHARACTERS
A personal project exploring character creation using AI, specifically Midjourney.
Character creation using prompts and many (many!) iterations to create portraits as well as a matching suitcase for each.
Mr 'Scout' Hart
Olfactory Specialist (Ice cream sniffer)
He started studying philosophy, politics and economics at college but never finished the course. Soon after became a (mid range) male model in the Onesie Pajama niche. His party trick on shoot (correctly identifying a whole bag of flavoured jelly beans just by smell from inside a zipped up onsie) led to a chance meeting with the CEO from a confectionary conglomerate that found a role for him within weeks. He is now the leading ‘nose’ for berry based flavour profiles.
Bogdan Glenmore
Plug socket enthusiast.
He had little to say, and stressed that he doesn’t care for your ‘lead free solder’ and ‘earthed connections’.
Apart from plug sockets, he has a collection of scale model sci fi space ships.
Trevor Longthorpe
WAS A Big DEAL
Self proclaimed ‘big deal in the 80s’ selling phones and audio in North London, now a retired collector of vintage (‘built proper like’) electronics. Eccentric character, surviving on strong cheap coffee and sugar on toast. He’s still proud of his ‘crowning achievement’, a patent for a clockwork bottle opener. I argued it was still ‘pending’ but he was hearing nothing further about it.
Madison Harper
Rocket EnthusiasT
When Madison was struck harmlessly on the (left) foot by a piece of falling space debris in 2009 (denied by NASA, assumed part vaporised pigeon) it began her fascination for rockets and future space travel. Born in Massachusetts, she is now working at United Space Labs developing complex mechanisms for robotic arm movements for future space cleanups.
Side note: She never got her damaged shoe back (Denied by NASA) which still is a sore point even today.
Professor Claude Patanade
orchid botanists
One of the foremost orchid botanists of the 20th Century, Patanade’s persistent illegal importation of endangered orchid species (from the jungles of guinea) led to the early formation of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). He disappeared for over two decades, recently reappearing as guest professor on exclusive cruises catering to octogenarian horticultural hobbyists. It is known his eldest son Reimund has taken over the family ‘interests’.
Reimund Patanade
Orchid specialist
(Eldest son of Orchid ‘specialist’ Prof Patanade (Above). Raised by just his father he was soon sent into the military. Completing only 3 years of service, he suddenly left this life behind, ending up working shifts at the local hospital as night guard for a number of years.
Objecting to automatically following in his fathers footsteps, it was a chance meeting with Prof Claude’s private student Adrienne who’s fine botanic dissection and blade control impressed him to follow the path of botany.
Side note: Ranked 3rd internationally for “Most cured ham traditionally sliced in one hour“ (9.6kg / 1867 slices).
