Wide shot of the Make a Creature exhibit.

Make a Creature

2022

Make a Creature is a multimedia game inspired by artist Remedios Varo, the Surrealists, and the game Exquisite Corpse – a drawing game that invited players to create strange creatures from different objects and body parts.

In Make a Creature, players get to create their own creature by taking a photo of their face and augmenting it with a random objects for heads, bodies and legs. They can then scan the QR code to take their creation home.

Created in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) for their Making Art exhibition in the Children’s Gallery from 10 June 2022 – 9 October 2022, Make a Creature was also installed at Chadstone Shopping Centre for a month. Nearly 60,000 creatures were made during the course of the exhibition.

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Additional Credits & Info:

Collaborators: National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)

Game Design: Chad Toprak
Programming: Hsin Yang Ho
Animation: Helen Kwok

Exhibition: Making Art
Venue: Children’s Gallery, NGV
Venue: 10 June 2022–9 October 2022

Photography: Helen Kwok

A mother and son playing Make a Creature.
Close-up of the Make a Creature title screen.
Still of the ambient animation screen from the Make a Creature exhibit.
Two kids playing Make a Creature together.
Mother and daughter playing Make a Creature together.
Reveal screen of Make a Creature.
A mother and two daughters playing Make a Creature together.
A mother and son smiling while playing Make a Creature.
The entrance to the Making Art exhibition at National Gallery of Victoria.
Make a Creature installation at Chadstone Shopping Centre.