[Art, Animal Crossing, sewing plushes/patterns, low-poly 3D modeling] I'm back on my bs again. guess who stayed up until 6am this morning working on plush patterns again!
so I'm trying out putting all the parts into one single file. I still need to add the bear cub's parts to it - but I just finished adding the kitty and bunny to the list of animals that're now doable.
the last three are done such that their faces are actually interchangeable - you can pick if you want to do them flat, like the official merch does them, or if you want to give them a subtly-pointed little snoot/nose. because they cute, okay.
(the backs of their heads are a little different, on account of I made spots for the holes for their different ears.)
I'm still not entirely sure how to handle doing the bunnies' ears such that they stay flat, though.... I did try putting in little strips to sew in under the middle of the ear, so that it'd hold it a little flatter, but idk. thoughts?
who were my sewing buddies on here, again, who were interested when I was deep into this about a year ago? I think it was lucineblue and ArtWildentanzen ?
frog would use the squirrel/cat/bunny base anyway, for the head.... bird would be stupidly simple; it's the same basic head, but with a beak for a snoot... and then a few different styles of tails, different arms (because cute little wingies) and those birb feets.
looks like it's mostly the three-toed style, and then the paddle style, like for the ducks.... hmm. should I make the ducks' bigger beaks a different face type, too?
it's so far laid out so that there's one page for the clothes, two pages for the different body styles, a page for each of the heads (more or less), and a page for the rest of the parts for those types (ears, tail)....
I'll have to do a page just for giving that little bit of an explanation, I think... and work on doing screenshot-type illustrations to show how to use each page's parts... but that's part of why I'm okay with leaving some of those big spots blank there. it leaves room for the instructions...
oh, huh. I might be able to consolidate the body types into one page, if I do it carefully. there's only two backs, and four fronts, not four backs and four fronts.... hmmm.
Can you elaborate a little on what you mean by "ears lying flat"? Like, is it in regards to orientation to the seam? Or you want them to stand up straight, or not twist when they lay back/to the side, or....?
so my idea was: 1. have a little tab of fabric to pull the back of the ear and front of the ear a little closer (as opposed to letting the stuffing shove the front of it out toward the face) - that's the weird bit of geometry there on those pages for kitty and bunny
2. what if you sewed horizontally halfway through the bunny's ears, so they can flop too?
If I recall, is there a bit of the ear that looks a bit like. Shadowed?? so that you get the impression of depth? Or are you making them as like stuffable half tube shapes
and I did get the bodies all onto one page! ....but I'm rethinking it, on account of "but there isn't enough unused space to properly put in images to show how the pieces fit together...?
Then you might want to put a fabric liner with very little stretch behind the actual front of the ear so that it won't bend forward when you stuff it as much. You could also do this with a firmer thing like a piece of chipboard (the stuff at the back of legal pads) leaving a slim space to put a thin layer of stuffing into the front of the ear with most of
The problem with that is that you ARE going to have a hard thing in the middle of your ear, and chipboard is paper product, so it WILL go to mush if you throw the stuffie into the wash.
I like the idea of, rather than explaining too much in words, just having like. screenshots of the actual 3d model there, so you can see what it was unfolded from/how to reassemble it...
You could do this with a piece of plasticard instead, ironing on a piece of quilt binding along the edges to use as a "tacking edge" that you actually sew to the seams itself.
Other options would be a wiiiide piece (or pieces) of wire so that you could bend the ear, but it would also provide some support to the ear front and keep it flat.
but they were requested, so I'm trying to figure out how, and I'm not sure what to recommend, because I can't find the stupid photos of the Actual Licensed Bunny Char Merch ones....
if you're just talking patterns, then yeah, you seem to have a good shape for that. It's up to the person sewing to figure out how they want to put in the support structure.
yeah... but I figure adding in that little... tether...? would be a good move, right? I mean, to hold the back and front of the base of it together some?
personally, I'd lean toward putting in a seam halfway, so it could do the floppy thing somewhat... but then, I'm also hand-stitching all the AC plushies I'm making....
couldn't get the fabric paint face stuff to work out, though, so I'm going to embroider some onto some cotton, and then if my nephew likes it, attach those....
for xmas last year, I got him Vlad's villager-summoning amiibo card. ....and decided that since there was no merch of him... I needed to fill that gap, because the kid deserved to be able to give his little friend an actual hug.
so this year, I'm going back and finishing him off properly, and making his wardrobe, too - all the shirts he was seen in-game in! he's currently got a polka-dot shirt that's... not terribly unlike the one he wears sometimes in one of the games? but it's not exactly like it....
and that, fyi, is the pattern I've been working with. so if you make a new shirt/dress/etc out of these patterns, and have that Tom Nook, you can make your Nook new clothes too! or put that green sweatervest on your little home-made kitty/etc!
I feel I should point out that since it's a simple shirt design I did for my pattern for it - all but managed to recreate that green sweatervest there, fyi; look closely at how it and the polkadot shirt sit on Vlad! the dotty shirt's collar comes up closer to the neck, is all! - one could totally turn that dress pattern into like. a kimono or something.
ah, it's 3d models that I'm unfolding in a program meant for papercrafting models.
but I eyed over how it let you decide where to split up the faces of the model, and I realized... why not, instead of folding up the paper and building the model irl out of that... why not use the model's parts as sewing patterns and build it from fabric instead?
eventually, I want to make my lil friend Pecan....
...and you know that amiibo nfc tags have been figured out? so I'd get her amiibo card as a little quarter-sized pvc coin... and rather than being able to call her with her card... I'd be able to sit her plushie on the Switch instead, since I'd put the coin in her....
so I'm trying out putting all the parts into one single file. I still need to add the bear cub's parts to it - but I just finished adding the kitty and bunny to the list of animals that're now doable.
the last three are done such that their faces are actually interchangeable - you can pick if you want to do them flat, like the official merch does them, or if you want to give them a subtly-pointed little snoot/nose. because they cute, okay.
I'm still not entirely sure how to handle doing the bunnies' ears such that they stay flat, though.... I did try putting in little strips to sew in under the middle of the ear, so that it'd hold it a little flatter, but idk. thoughts?
it's so far laid out so that there's one page for the clothes, two pages for the different body styles, a page for each of the heads (more or less), and a page for the rest of the parts for those types (ears, tail)....
1. clothes page
2. the body page with the body you want
3. the page for the head (pointy nose vs flat face)
3. the squirrel-specific parts page
1. have a little tab of fabric to pull the back of the ear and front of the ear a little closer (as opposed to letting the stuffing shove the front of it out toward the face) - that's the weird bit of geometry there on those pages for kitty and bunny
2. what if you sewed horizontally halfway through the bunny's ears, so they can flop too?
^ see, segmented in the middle.
but I eyed over how it let you decide where to split up the faces of the model, and I realized... why not, instead of folding up the paper and building the model irl out of that... why not use the model's parts as sewing patterns and build it from fabric instead?
...and you know that amiibo nfc tags have been figured out? so I'd get her amiibo card as a little quarter-sized pvc coin... and rather than being able to call her with her card... I'd be able to sit her plushie on the Switch instead, since I'd put the coin in her....
I'm in no rush to get AC. I don't really have time to play it atm. but eventually, when I do....