What a great project concept. Invent a creature, give it a name, gather a group of talented folks to bring it to life.

“The International Fauna Dossier describes a schaffas (Marcum-Schaffidius) as a gentle and un-aspiring creature of great mystery…SCREAMDANCE have hand-picked art-friends from all over the world to customize their own breed of schaffas. They were each sent a similar blank shape and given free reign to add, subtract, paint or destroy these objects.”

Here is the template:

And a couple of examples of what people have done with it:

You can see the whole collection here, and it’s quite entertaining.

I love the emerging trend of DIY toys. Mildly anthropomorphic shapes have become a new canvas, and it’s lovely to see the variety of what people project upon them.