Tessa's Creative Endeavors (Toys! Clothes! Procrastination!)
Jul 2, 2017 9:06:22 GMT -5
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Post by Ollie ? on Jul 2, 2017 9:06:22 GMT -5
Yesterday we were supposed to be packing stuff for our move later this summer.
Obviously that meant it was time to spend the day learning to hex clothes and toys.
I made the star shirt first, then the Nordic-style sweater, and then I realized that's no good for summer so I made him a dumb orange tank top, bc obviously my computer-baby cares about the weather outside. The basket-weave shorts are also mine. I'm...not entirely sure what I was going for with that except that it's a stock pattern on the paint program I use and I didn't want to draw a new one. (I spent my clothing-pattern-drawing efforts on the sweater, you see.) I may use the Nordic pattern for some tights at some point, too, because I think that'd be cute.
Since I enjoyed using Tinker to make the clothes put-away sprites, I decided it was about time to learn to make toyz because obviously I knew what I was doing by then, right? Right??
After basically breaking my game and almost deleting my clown doll for good (not that it would have been a big loss because why is there a clown), I successfully did a thing!
(Because if you have an X-Men-inspired baby, you gotta have a Wolverine doll.) (THEY'RE NOT DOLLS MOM THEY'RE ACTION FIGURES.)
Making the sprite was the easiest part--I found an actual Wolverine figurine image, shrunk it, then traced over the outline in Paint.Net. I colored and shaded it without using the original picture though because its costume was too elaborate to look good in such a small form, and I had to mess with the claws so they didn't look dumb. After converting the colors he's not as shiny-plastic-looking as I would have liked but that's okay.
The hardest thing...well, I put it together with the tutorial from Babyz.org and still broke it like three times. But it was either finish this project or do something productive and we all know what the choice is there.
So that's how I did it: sheer powers of procrastination. But I made something I'm happy with! Here, have another picture even though Wolverine literally does not change at all at any point.
(onesie from Amy)
As you can see, Kurt seems to like Wolverine, too. He carried him around while he was crawling for a while, and he enjoys flinging him across the room. This is all 100% accurate for X-Men iirc.
Thanks for looking!
Obviously that meant it was time to spend the day learning to hex clothes and toys.
I made the star shirt first, then the Nordic-style sweater, and then I realized that's no good for summer so I made him a dumb orange tank top, bc obviously my computer-baby cares about the weather outside. The basket-weave shorts are also mine. I'm...not entirely sure what I was going for with that except that it's a stock pattern on the paint program I use and I didn't want to draw a new one. (I spent my clothing-pattern-drawing efforts on the sweater, you see.) I may use the Nordic pattern for some tights at some point, too, because I think that'd be cute.
Since I enjoyed using Tinker to make the clothes put-away sprites, I decided it was about time to learn to make toyz because obviously I knew what I was doing by then, right? Right??
After basically breaking my game and almost deleting my clown doll for good (not that it would have been a big loss because why is there a clown), I successfully did a thing!
(Because if you have an X-Men-inspired baby, you gotta have a Wolverine doll.) (THEY'RE NOT DOLLS MOM THEY'RE ACTION FIGURES.)
Making the sprite was the easiest part--I found an actual Wolverine figurine image, shrunk it, then traced over the outline in Paint.Net. I colored and shaded it without using the original picture though because its costume was too elaborate to look good in such a small form, and I had to mess with the claws so they didn't look dumb. After converting the colors he's not as shiny-plastic-looking as I would have liked but that's okay.
The hardest thing...well, I put it together with the tutorial from Babyz.org and still broke it like three times. But it was either finish this project or do something productive and we all know what the choice is there.
So that's how I did it: sheer powers of procrastination. But I made something I'm happy with! Here, have another picture even though Wolverine literally does not change at all at any point.
(onesie from Amy)
As you can see, Kurt seems to like Wolverine, too. He carried him around while he was crawling for a while, and he enjoys flinging him across the room. This is all 100% accurate for X-Men iirc.
Thanks for looking!
