After a much longer hiatus than I intended, I've finished up some very small projects based on some of the monsters of Final Fantasy IV. This trio of squishy, multi-legged creatures all share a game design, but through the magic of color palette swapping, the game designers were able to create three separate and distinct enemies—the Crawler, the Larva, and the RocLarva. Not making any excuses for my absence this time. The last 47 updates should serve as a testament to the fact that I've been committed to making these projects happen, but sometimes real life gets in the way. Depression is a thing.
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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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