Eggs Over Easy At Criaturas Camisetas

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www.criaturasencamisetas.com which translates as Creatures on T-Shirts is a Spanish/English speaking t-shirt site that specialises in 3D prints. We’ve had a long chat with Robert Borgers the guy behind the label to essentially fathom out exactly why he has such an obsession with eggs but to be honest it still remains somewhat of a mystery. Buy Tees doesn’t believe in coincidence, sure Robert has admitted he was using eggs as a starting point for test animation purposes, it’s a good wholesome shape that’s perfect for 3D, but we’re convinced there’s more to it than that and so we had a look into the symbolist meanings of the egg, you know birth, life, etc… and decided that seeing as he isn’t the son of a chef or the witness to any personal egg-related tragedies along the way it must simply be that it all comes down to the idea of the ‘beginning’ – yes I’m sure Robert wasn’t expecting our brand of adhoc homespun psycho-analysis but the egg is a major symbol for many cultures marking the birth or rebirth of just about everything. Seeing as Criaturas Camisetas is a relatively new label we’re guessing this is exactly his thinking (however subconscious) behind the theme, a new beginning for a new label.

Robert likes to put his characters through their paces and has imagined all kinds of scenarios for his eggs, mainly ending in their demise. After his initial test animation featuring an egg Robert is quoted as saying “I started to imagine what kind of odd or unsettling situations a regular egg (with legs and eyes) might find him/her/itself in and that’s how the various ‚Äúegg scenarios‚Äù on the site came to be..no personal trauma involved, I swear.” So that’s the end of the egg-related mystery in case anyone out there fancies them self as an amateur sleuth the case (which is most likely packed with yet more eggs) of Robert’s egg obsession is certainly closed.

Which leaves us free to look at the label and designer behind it. Robert was originally born in Holland but has been living in the highly creative city of Barcelona for the past dozen years. He’s primarily a self-taught graphic designer, and has for the main part worked as a web designer/developer for the majority of that time. In 2003 he began styudying 3D art which has always fascinated him, although he has taken courses in animation it is the modelling process of characters and props which really grabbed his attention.

When creating a character he follows the traditional route of animators, building basic shapes which he eventually forms into characters, and then like a man possessed plays with their fate in a never ending course of unnerving scenarios. Some of his tees feature other non-eggy characters which he will be developing for the future ,but in all honesty I can see Robert becoming well known as ‘The Egg Man‘. read more