Post by Sparky on Jul 27, 2006 21:49:45 GMT -5
Oh yeah I should post this huh. 
I know this could go in Fan Art but eh, I'll put it over here. It's an "other" I guess. 
(Same description I put on DA so I don't have to write a new one)
This is the 8-ft-tall Wilt plushie I made for pitbulllady's birthday, which I took to the San Diego Comic-Con and had signed by Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust. He's mostly made of fine plush fabric - his shoes, smile, and good eye are broadcloth, his socks are t-shirt material, and his number 1, wristband, and the stripes on his socks are fleece. His wonky eye is made from a clear plastic ornament with the hanger trimmed off with my Dremel and a painted wooden ball dropped inside. There is a pouch of polybeads (or "beanies") inside each shoe and his rump to weight them, and a PVC pipe runs through his body for stability.
The hardest part of the whole thing (because to be honest, he was incredibly easy to design) was his eyestalks. I figured I would just use some doll armature I had ordered from the dollmaking company years before and hadn't used - now this was the BIGGEST diameter the company made, and it's pretty hefty. I also had some three-way connectors I was going to use to make the zigzag in his wonky eyestalk (I cut the extra side off with my Dremel). So I popped apart the lengths I would need - one for his good stalk and three short ones for the bad one) and went to put together the wonky one. OMG. They would NOT freaking pop back together!!! (Think of ball-and-socket joints.) They just wouldn't! My brother tried helping me, I tried using bricks like a vice to hold them still, I tried pliers - I tried everything, they would NOT pop together. -_- Know what I had to do? I had to put a sanding attachment on my Dremel and SAND the balls down until I *could* get them together. It was INSANE. If I ever do anything like that again I am ordering smaller freaking doll armature. Anyways. Thank God for my Dremel, eh?
Everyone go buy one right now. It comes in handy in the oddest of places.
I know this could go in Fan Art but eh, I'll put it over here. It's an "other" I guess. (Same description I put on DA so I don't have to write a new one)
This is the 8-ft-tall Wilt plushie I made for pitbulllady's birthday, which I took to the San Diego Comic-Con and had signed by Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust. He's mostly made of fine plush fabric - his shoes, smile, and good eye are broadcloth, his socks are t-shirt material, and his number 1, wristband, and the stripes on his socks are fleece. His wonky eye is made from a clear plastic ornament with the hanger trimmed off with my Dremel and a painted wooden ball dropped inside. There is a pouch of polybeads (or "beanies") inside each shoe and his rump to weight them, and a PVC pipe runs through his body for stability.
The hardest part of the whole thing (because to be honest, he was incredibly easy to design) was his eyestalks. I figured I would just use some doll armature I had ordered from the dollmaking company years before and hadn't used - now this was the BIGGEST diameter the company made, and it's pretty hefty. I also had some three-way connectors I was going to use to make the zigzag in his wonky eyestalk (I cut the extra side off with my Dremel). So I popped apart the lengths I would need - one for his good stalk and three short ones for the bad one) and went to put together the wonky one. OMG. They would NOT freaking pop back together!!! (Think of ball-and-socket joints.) They just wouldn't! My brother tried helping me, I tried using bricks like a vice to hold them still, I tried pliers - I tried everything, they would NOT pop together. -_- Know what I had to do? I had to put a sanding attachment on my Dremel and SAND the balls down until I *could* get them together. It was INSANE. If I ever do anything like that again I am ordering smaller freaking doll armature. Anyways. Thank God for my Dremel, eh?
Everyone go buy one right now. It comes in handy in the oddest of places.
