Wednesday, December 14, 2011

December: Coming Soon...Chrono Cross models

Hi team,
   I believe that Chrono Cross has been released on the playstation network, so if you haven't already done so, go out and purchase this great game.  Hopefully this'll send a message the the people at square that people are demanding another addition to the series.  I waited over a decade to play this great game.  Anyway in the spirit of this great game, I plan on building some papercrafts from the game in the next coming weeks.  This is to carry off where Kaizo left off.  However I'll have to see about being able to include stands with them.  For some of the models it is feasible, because their legs are close together, however some of the models appear that it won't work.



So I'll start with Lynx in his battle ready pose and Irenes.  I'm going to try the no-fold approach for these models.  They appear to be low-poly enough that it can be done, but we'll see.  Starting off these models are a little bit bigger scale, but I'll try and reduce the scale to match the scale that Kaizo set up in the first place (but we'll see because of productivity limitations)  I would love to do the Time Devourer, yet another model that Kaizo mentioned but never did, however the and issue with transparency will be difficult.  I'm thinking of the final pose for it, which would ideally make it a hanging model, but I think I'll need to make a stand for it (I'll need to go back and make a stand for Kefka, since when I move may not be able to hang him.).

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Garland's Helmet and my one year anniversary!!!

I think I'll start unfolding a series of wearables for the cosplayers out there.  I'm not test building these so I'll need some feedback from people who decide to make them.  This helmet and two others are from Kaizo, so they follow the same scale as his head...




As far as other updates go, I've passed one big hurdle and venturing on to face many more.  So my papercraft productivity will continue at the pace that it has been going at for this past half year.  However in this past 12 months I have enjoyed sharing some of my favorite FF characters with you.  Six characters and two wearables.  I've spent many pointless hours posing models over and over again, only to realize that those models are enormous projects that would take a long time. Unfortunately my limited attention span takes over and I lose interest in working with the model.  I've been wanting to do ff12 models for so long, but they take so long to work with just to end up with a model that doesn't have bones.  Scratch posing can be a pain.  I have several dissidia models which I've been posing and have started to lay out, but there is probably going to be some span of time before I get around to them.  I've had AaronVFT's Tidus model half build on my shelf for a year, and ACE's Cloud model printed out but just collecting dust.  Ive posed and unfolded Gabranth for another model with an "iconic" pose.  I've been waiting to print him out, but when your schedule is incredibly busy, there seems like little point in printing out yet another model.  I'm working on posing another Gilgamesh model, but it'll take some time, I'm debating which model to work on next.  I'd really like to get a Chrono Cross model out there, but we'll see how things go.
Only time will tell how much more I produce in the upcoming year....