Charles Allen Harris

During the i love bees Alternate reality game, Charles Allen Harris created an image of Melissa (A.I.); titled, "Melissa-The Operator" (shown below). It quickly became the de facto visual representation of Melissa, and flooded the Internet.
Even though he could have started suing people for illegally using his design, he instead tried to bring some good about via art and announced, in December 2004, that he would donate 50% of sales of his prints, to Child's Play, the Penny Arcade led Gamer Charity. In 2014, he updated the artwork for the tenth anniversary of ilovebees.
Charles Allen Harris is from Atlanta in the United States of America. Since 2004 he has worked as an artist/designer in Los Angeles and Atlanta.
Allen works mainly in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. The Melissa: The Operator artwork is created with Adobe Illustrator.
==Gallery==
File:Melissa-the-operator-artwork.jpg
== External links ==
*Harris' page about the Melissa artwork: caharris.com/melissa
*Harris' artwork website
Harris, Charles Allen
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