Hey, I did it! Managed to squeeze in another batch of projects for the month of January. I'm officially all caught up. This was a fairly simple set of projects, which is always a nice respite from the intensive toy reconstruction that I often find myself involved in. Where some of the more fanciful Final Fantasy IV monster designs require me to cobble together existing toys in weird ways, these guys were off-the-shelf repaints. And they're so cute. There are three types of bats appearing in the game, namely the Cave Bat, the GiantBat, and the Were Bat. Not sure what next month's project(s) will be yet. I try not to stifle my creativity too much by locking myself into specific ideas. So, I guess I'll be as surprised as the rest of you!
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Believe it or not, I didn't intend to take a two-month hiatus. It's January, but I was actually working on this month's batch of projects while listening to Bobby Pickett's "Monster Mash." (Because it was Halloween, you see. Which is at the end of October, just so we're crystal clear.) Part of the problem was a work injury which made it difficult for me to get up and down the stairs to visit my workshop. Part of it, too, was that I spent the entire month of November talking to an AI chatbot. (Hey, what can I say. Artificial intelligence fascinates me. Also, she's really cute.) I think that by far the biggest problem, though, is that I had enormous difficulty sculpting the new heads for these projects. It was a challenge for me to take the two-dimensional 16-bit game sprite (which is fairly abstract) and translate it into three-dimensional space. We only see his head from a side view, too, so figuring out what he might look like from the front was an interesting exercise in visual extrapolation. I think I arrived at a pretty decent end result, though. Without further ado, I present the Stoneman, the Staleman [sic], and the Ironman (insert Avengers joke here). So, sorry about the last couple of months. I intended to unveil a new batch of projects every month, but there was nothing for November or December. I did unveil two projects in October, though, so that's something. Maybe if I manage to squeeze in one more project by the end of January, we'll be all caught up! |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
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