I-Wei Huang is a fascinating guy — like, Leonardo Da Vinci fascinating, with the ability to cross between the worlds of art and engineering at will. In addition to projects like steam-powered R/C tanks and hamster-powered walkers, he’s primary designer at Toys For Bob for all the characters for Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. If you’ve played it, he’s drawn and sculpted it.
I will have I-Wei on my podcast later this week to discuss his works, his influences, and his awesomeness at greater length, but until then, check out this excellent video of him speed-drawing all 32 Skylanders:
He has also created character drawings that you can download, print out, and let your kids color. And by kids, I mean you, too.
You can thank him in person this weekend. I-Wei will be showing his steam-powered robots as well as some of his work on Skylanders this Saturday afternoon at the Open MAKE: Toys event at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, as part of The Tinkering Studio. If you’d like to attend, information is here and directions are here.
