For January I decided to tackle a project that's been bugging me for a while. I knew I wanted to use a specific action figure body, and attach a specific action figure head, but the logistics of how to accomplish it eluded me for a while. I pondered various solutions (cutting off faces, neck transplants, all sorts of grisly things) until the solution finally came to me. Anyway, I finished up the Medusa and Gorgon, two ladies with slithering reptillian tresses, who were shamelessly stolen from Greek mythology for their appearance in Final Fantasy IV. (As a point of interest, an early Medusa appears in a much lower pixel resolution in the primitive 8-bit Final Fantasy for NES as well.) I only have to do (counts on fingers) three more projects in 2024 to beat my productivity for 2023. That's kind of sad. But, there are also eleven months left in the year, so I'd say the odds of that happening are honestly pretty good!
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Hey, look at me! I was able to squeeze in one more update for this month! (See, I'm not a complete slacker. Probably only about three-quarters of a slacker.) So my latest pair of monsters from Final Fantasy IV owe their origins to Greek mythology, thus demonstrating that the game designers weren't relying entirely on Dungeons & Dragons for inspiration (just mostly)! The Chimera and Mantcore [sic] were both particularly nasty beasts, due in no small part to the fact that you can't use traditional magical attacks to dispatch them. I look at these two three-dimensional creations and I just get angry—not because I feel like they turned out poorly by any stretch of the imagination, but because they remind me so much of the video game monsters that were such an endless source of frustration for me. I've gotten some feedback from visitors who want to see me focus on uploading some of my older custom toys (I've been modifying toys and putting pictures online since 1998 or so, so as you can imagine, there's quite a backlog). I promise to make an effort to squeeze that in amongst all my many other projects! |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
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