Saw this ad for a new TV show in the subway station and immediately knew what had to be done. Well, I knew I had to make something with it – the characters, faces, outfits, backrounds, details were too inviting. The cartoonish blocky figures were good for combining since your eyes naturally see faces and characters even in their simplified forms.

I started with putting a picture of my own face in with one of the characters, but the initail results were too jarring, so I moved on to making something using just the six characters.

First mix:

The triangles grid is really handy for making rays of color (lightning, sun light, power of pure awesome?) that appear to radiate out from the center. From there, it was a series of mashing shoulders, arms, heads together…

…and finally, mashing in some little details from one character to another. This last bit – adding small details from one to another, is best done with the custom grid set to 25×25 (625 tiles per image) as it gives you the most fine-grained control in the app.

And, volia!

What could you make with cartoon faces? What stories might your students tell about the characters that combine powers – would they be more powerful, or clunky and awkward? What powers would you want?