I've built action figures of all the playable characters from Final Fantasy IV, perhaps my favorite video game of all time. I also did exactly one monster. At some point, I realized how amazing it would be to have this huge display shelf filled with all the monsters from the game as well. I was so taken with the idea that I started cataloguing the monsters and started looking for existing toys that I could paint into them. There are about 200 roving baddies in the game (many of which are just color-swaps of the same sprite template) plus the various bosses, so it may take a while to do. But, nobody ever said my projects lacked ambition. So, the first three new monsters are the skeletal stygimoloch-like dino-creatures you encounter in the game after the party travels to the Moon. The first is the purple D. Bone creature; the next is the orange D. Fossil you find a little further in the game; and the last one is the bone-white D. Lunar, the optional boss who guards a treasure deep within the lunar core. There will be many more of these to come, if all goes as planned!
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I've maintained a personal web site, on and off, since 1998. The World Wide Web has become a very different beast since that time. Used to be that web pages that were too image-heavy would crash some people's browsers, so my web design philosophy has always been "substance over style." A comprehensive fan site stuffed full of useful information (and the occasional photo for spice) was the ideal to which I aspired. Zobovor's Multi-Faceted Transformers Site! was born, which was eventually abbreviated to ZMFTS! because Hasbro didn't like that I was using their trademark without permission.
As newer computers became more sophisticated and people stopped complaining about too many images all trying to load at once, I grew bolder and started experimenting with bigger images, embedded sound files, and videos, all in the interest of showing off my creative endeavors. The site ballooned so much that it became unmanageable, so I streamlined and dispensed with the information guides (which were, by this point, being covered rather nicely by the wiki sites that had sprung up in the interim) and focused chiefly on the stuff I created. In recent years I've realized that the site needed a complete overhaul. Something like 60% of Internet users are on mobile devices now, according to some sources, so a web site designed for viewing on a desktop computer was no longer relevant. I wanted the site to be mobile friendly so I could reach more people. As I write this, I'm in the very early stages of rebuilding the ZMFTS! and it's been a challenge. Not because of the HTML coding (Weebly is pretty much all click-and-drag design) but because I'm having to pare down the descriptions of my projects to the absolute bare minimum. People don't want to slog through a wall of text. (You probably gave up on this blog entry two paragraphs in.) I really like to go into detail about how I rebuilt toys, what that piece is made of, how I resculpted that piece, why I chose that color of paint, etc. but it's just too much. It needs to be mobile-friendly. A bunch of pictures that you can swipe. (I mean slide your finger across the screen, not steal for use on your own web site. Because goodness knows I've dealt with that enough over the years.) Now I just need to begin the slow task of uploading my 560+ projects to the new server. I did three of them tonight. At this rate, it will only take me 26 more weeks... —Zob |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
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