This month I decided to tackle a rather challenging trio of Final Fantasy IV monsters. In addition to the many animals and fantasy creatures in the game, there are also a few ethereal, ectoplasmic entities whose game sprites suggest a certain wispy and insubstantive quality. How to represent that in three dimensions, one wonders? Well, I happened upon the existence of a great-looking vintage Dungeons & Dragons figurine, which is rather ironic considering how many creatures from the early Final Fantasy games were, indeed, based on monsters from D&D. Anyway, I spent a lot of time working on these guys, not just during the building and painting stages but also in sculpting some special figure stands to help support them for display. Without further ado, I present the Ghost, the Soul, and the Spirit, the last of which officially marks my 1ooth Final Fantasy IV project (if you tally them up somewhat selectively)!
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There are lots of monsters from Final Fantasy IV that are just regular animals with a nasty attitude. Alligators, birds, turtles, etc. Then there are these gigantic flying eyeballs with bat wings. That's a bit more unusual. I built one of these several years ago (the FloatEye), back when I figured I'd just make one Final Fantasy monster and call it good. Then, I got this crazy idea in my head to build all of them (no, I'm not sure what's wrong with me), so I ended up redoing that one in addition to the three other baddies who share the same sprite design. Two of them, the FloatEye and Red Eye, are doin' hard time on planet Earth, while the remaining two, the dangerous FatalEye and the deadly Plague, live on the Moon. Check 'em out! Also, I started building monsters from Final Fantasy IV in May 2017, so this month marks the one-year anniversary of this grand and glorious endeavor. Usually I'll bounce around randomly from Star Wars to Transformers to Ninja Turtles projects, but this is the first time in my career as a hobbyist that I've devoted an entire year to a single franchise. In the last 12 months I've finished up 37 creatures from Final Fantasy IV. There are roughly 200 monsters and bosses from the game, so at the rate I'm going, I can expect to get them all done within five years. (Check this space in 2023 to see how far I've gotten!) |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
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