FINAL FANTASY IV
SLIME PROJECT #578 CREATED: AUGUST 2017 The Slime from Final Fantasy IV shares a name with the Slime from the Dragon Warrior video game series, but they could not be more different. Slimes often appeared in the Tower of Zot, sometimes accompanied by the IceLiz and other times flanked by a closely-related Jelly and Cream. They proved difficult for characters like Cecil or Yang to effectively combat, since their piercing weapons had no effect on the bodies of the blob-like monsters. Only a dedicated magical attack from Tellah was sufficient to destroy them. (They were referred to as Purple Bavarois in the PlayStation Portable remake of the game.) I wanted my Slime monsters to be physically identical to the other five monster types of this design that I built, so any physical changes I made would have to be something I was willing to do six times. In addition to gutting the internal gimmick mechanisms, I had to resculpt their eyes and mouth and make new, tiny teeth for them out of toothpicks. The Slime is colored using several different, contrasting shades of purple, so I used my airbrush and loaded it with the same colors to try to duplicate that look. |
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