The Making of Flammie!

I made a plush/felt sculpture of Flammie, from Square's Secret of Mana, for a video game themed gallery show and decided to make a slideshow showing some of the steps I did to create him. I am happy to answer questions about my process and pretty much made things up as I went along, so I am open to feedback and suggestions about new techniques. I hope people find it inspiring and helpful!

Comments

[Sodabowski]

Dude, I'm definitely making one like yours! Thanks a lot for the slidey (BTW we LOLed so hard with my wife when your solder-savvy pal walked in!).

[zangel1]

That is awsome! WIsh I had the ability to do something like that!

[Thrasym]

Interesting throw back to my early days of gaming. Thanks for that. Thoroughly enjoyable video mimicking the text box game play antics I grew up on (even though I never played this particular game, I think they all shared a sound track, lol).

[ravenking]

Wow. I really enjoyed watching your video. Your Flammie is soooooooo cute. I do have one question. Do you have any links where I can learn about wool felting or sculpting? Did you push the wool into the foam with a needle?

[stephlaberis]

Thanks! I added an annotation with a link to the felting site I go to but it's not showing up :( There is a link in the description if you click "show more" but here it is for quick reference: http://livingfelt.com/

They sell wool and kits on there and also have a very helpful video library about the basics of felting! It's a pretty easy thing to pick up, so I hope you give it a try!

[ravenking]

Thanks for the link. The site is full of adorable kits and wool batting in delightful colors. :)

[Morph156]

This is absolutely fantastic! Secret of Mana was a fantastic game and it's nice to see Flammie get a little love. Great job!

[stephlaberis]

Thank you!! <3

[dreiseratops]

SO WICKED AWESOME!!!
Also your sculpt is first on google image search for 'flamie mana'

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=flamie+mana&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1066&bih=572&ix=heb&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=8OszT9xHw-qCB8XZxIAC

[stephlaberis]

Thank you! The image you see though is not my Flammie, it was the original model made by Squaresoft to use in advertising and the instruction booklet back in 1993. I wanted that plush Flammie SOOO MUCH as a kid but they never mass-produced them, so I made my plushie based on that model for a video game themed fan art show. I don't know who the original artist is for that piece, or else I would have credited him in my video.

[Jar Sqwuid]

This is so creative, well done, and just downright adorable! It really takes me back as well, very nicely done my creative friend!

[stephlaberis]

Thank you!! Hats off to another old school gamer!

[jessyratfink]

This is just fantastic! Not only is that one of the most impressive sculptures I've ever seen, the video is great. :D

Love that you used the music and text boxes!

[stephlaberis]

Thank you so much! I am glad to hear you're a fan of SoM too, I hoped people would pick up on the details like the sprites!