Unseen Characters

[Andy Turnbull]

Saw this on twitter and pitched in with an entry.

unseencharacters.tumblr.com/

Unseen Characters – a manifesto

What’s this all about?
So, bored one afternoon at work, I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. As you do. I ended up on the Unseen Character page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unseen_character

I thought it would be funny to invent a load of characters that only ever existed to move the plot of a book, film or play forward. And it would be best if they moved the plot forward in books, films and plays that don’t already exist. That way, we could have fun. It’ll all be posted on a Tumblr. This one, in fact: unseencharacters.tumblr.com/

Basically the creator of this Tumblr can create a brief bio of a character and you go away and bring life to them.

unseencharacters.tumblr.com/post/44133738624/2-jimmy-the-count-cousins

For the artsy types here it might be a nice wee break from big robots.

Andy

[Toph]

This sounds interesting... but I'm not sure if I understand.

Someone posts a bio and description of a scratch made character, and someone else comes and draws it?

[Andy Turnbull]

The guy running it will do a bio for you, or you can come up with one and a character yourself.

Just stretches some different artistic muscles.

Andy