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I R&D'd the technical aspects of how to make Semibot's mouth open and head rotate. To help convey this to the factory, I made a little proof of concept log...thing.

I made a big squishy whtie-breasted nuthatch! I wish I had more time to hug it before I had to send it to its forever home. And yes, it has a gaping cloaca.

I made my first luffa dish pad! I grew the luffas, processed the gourd, cut the inner fibers, and stitched the whole thing together with a cotton yarn. It's entirely compostable. It took a lot of work, but I'm very happy with the results!

Enjoying the arts tonight with @metroidhat.bsky.social

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I got one of those mini watercolor palettes and did a little sketch on a spare notebook. I also used watercolor pencilcrayons, frisket film, and pen. I haven't done physical painting in yeeaars, but this was really fun and rewarding!

Can you believe that there's enough of us AdamXSamus shippers with enough creative juices to make not one, but two zines?! Our second just came out! Due to a busy year, I wasn't able to contribute much this time. Maybe for the third~~

I felt like making a cute bucket hat. So I did! It's got Earthbound embroidery on the side, and it's reversible to reveal some dragon fabric from Japan. The denim parts are cut from some old jeans and the brim features stripy piping. I'm ready for the sun~

Harvest day! Here's today's haul, and some glam shots of my garden. This pic really doesn't convey the scale of the produce; that broccoli is about the size of my head. More descriptions in the alts.

Alright you cretins, come at me. I was responsible for Fangamer's Split Head plushie! www.fangamer.com/products/spl... I didn't make a full prototype myself, but I drew the turnaround, created the print texture, and figured out some of the troublesome construction elements.

30 years ago, lil' Eyes5 wanted to make a comic book and drew inspiration from a 2 page featurette in Nintendo Power about Dragon Hopper, a VB game that never got released. Didn't matter; she spent the next 4 years making a 28 chapter, 280 page epic where she imagined what would happen in the game!

I got Metroid ice cube trays for Christmas! Though instead of ice cubes, I learned to work with chocolate and NOW I'M MORE POWERFUL THAN I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED HAHAHA

I carved some Metroid stamps~ I wanna stamp some fabric, though I'm not sure what I'm gonna make out of that fabric. Any ideas?! I'll also try a few paper printing experiments~

Although I lost my save file (save your game in a separate slot before the endgame, folks!), I had a lot of fun with Metroid Prime 4! I'll play it again soon and get 100%! But for now, I'm channeling my leftover energy into making some spoiler-free, low-effort Metroid comics.

Sooooo, if you're at the Prime 4 endgame, be very careful about your save. Ideally, copy over your save file. I made a mistake and I basically lost my data.

I made a sweet little Emul plushie for a present. I love the fluffy accents in her ears, tail, cheeks, and chest! It's been a long time since I made a plushie that I didn't have to worry about replicating, so I took a lot of shortcuts and used a lot of hand sewing, which I don't normally do.

My biggest fear when a new Metroid game comes out is that any new lore might mess with my precious headcanon.

The Lace plushie I prototyped is finally available! Would you believe that she's been sitting on my desk for five years?? She went through at least 5 iterations. Please enjoy these pics of some of those older prototypes, plus a pic of all the patterns I went through. More descriptions in the alts.

My prototype for the Frinos plushie is a borb. It's actually kind of challenging to make a borb that has curves in all the right places, like the jut of the mouth, the subtle curve of the head, etc. Please enjoy these pics of a pink, crescent-less, toe-less Frinos plushie.

I was tasked with translating Trogdor's very 2D design into a 3D plushie! I prototyped just the head cuz I wanted to experiment with the eyes and eyebrow placement. Is it possible to get that 2D look in a 3D plushie? ...No. No it's not. It's just too weird!

The Monster Kid plushie is adapted from a plush I made for a personal project. One interesting change is that we used knit instead of sewing fleece together to form stripes. I'm not familiar with the limitations of knit production, so it required some compromises and experimentation to make it work.

The Curly plushie from Fangamer has been revealed! I claim (take) responsibility for most of the creative work that brought him into being. And I wrote about it on my website! For lots of behind-the-scenes photos and insights, check it out here: www.metroidhat.com/ridley/curly...

I claim partial responsibility for Fangamer's latest travesty. Trucy's Magic """Bag""" is a shorts pattern in essence. Here are some of my prototype pictures and factory instructions.

just want everyone to know that my company, where we have like 401k's and management structure and careers, just released its latest product

Went to the Earthbound USA screening in Vancouver and saw Jazzy and Robbie on the big screen!

Y'all better believe that I've designed/prototyped plushies for some of these upcoming games.

I prototyped the recently released Jormungandr puppet from Fangamer! Or at least a wacky colored baby version of him.

The Corrupted Storch plushie from Signalis is available at Fangamer! Despite how simple it looks, it has a deceptively complicated construction. That's because the stripes are actually cones, with each strip of fabric curved slightly differently in order to achieve a soft tapered candy-corn shape.

Here's the Broken Vessel prototype, from the Hollow Knight game. This plushie presented unique balancing and asymmetry challenges, as I wanted to preserve their hunched, sickly in-game posture. The second picture includes an even earlier prototype, when they had a more tentacle-like body.

BAGS *clap* BAGS *clap* BAGS Bags I made over the years!

Any fans of Hat in Time? Here's my prototype of the official Bow Kid plushie. Obviously she's has some crazy hair, but she's got many other little delightful details. At least, I find them delightful, from a construction standpoint! You can read more about her here www.metroidhat.com/ridley/bowki...

Once upon a time, I prototyped these Hollow Knight backpack clings. Fangamer still sells them, but we haven't made any more plushies of this size. That's because, even though they're much smaller, they're not proportionally cheaper or easier to produce than a full sized plushie.

Here's a series of Pokemon plushies I made oh... 14 years ago! They're one of a kind and feature a lot of fun elements, like polymer sculpted eyes, internal wires, and real feathers.

Here is a Jack Frost plushie that I prototyped for Fangamer! www.fangamer.com/collections/... I'm particularly proud of how I managed to make two holes in the hat in a manufacturable way. If you're a plushie maker, you might have some appreciation for how hard 'donut' holes are to make!

I prototyped the official Astrobot plushie from Fangamer! That was about two years ago; more recently, I had heavy involvement with the Kratos version of Astrobot. I didn't prototype this new version, but I oversaw the turnaround art and the sampling process.

For the Dead Space fan who requires plushies, you can buy the Isaac plushie I prototyped from Fangamer! He required a lot more hand sewing, gluing, and raw edges than I usually like to put into a plushie. You can read a longer writeup about his creation here: www.metroidhat.com/ridley/isaac...

This is my Specter Knight prototype from Shovel Knight. You can buy him from Symbiote Studios! www.symbiotestudios.com/online-store... He was quite fiddly to make, given all the details in the armor and the exacting shape of the cape.

This is Defect from Slay the Spire. Unfortunately, this plushie got cancelled, so it's not available for purchase. Too bad; it had some neat pattern details. Like the three necks and the asymmetrical embroidery on the body that had to be carefully placed to avoid going over any seams.

Pipo is available from Fangamer! www.fangamer.com/collections/... I did the turnaround art for the plushie. But... Uh, we are very likely to sell out, like, today. We didn't expect them to be so popular! Also, Gustavo is newly released. I didn't contribute too much to him except to fix his apron.

I prototyped the Cerberus plushie that you can buy from Fangamer! He is a chonky boy by necessity, in order to fit all those heads onto his body. He has paw pads and a bum hole. Please enjoy these pictures, including in-progress pics and an earlier version where I gave him too many heads.

I prototyped the Dusa plushie from Hades! The final plushie has much shorter snakes. I only made one prototype and, expecting it to need revisions, I stupidly did not take any construction photos like I usually do. I had to go back and draw my whole wacky process to teach the factory.

Another older prototype, this is Ironclad from Slay the Spire, which used to be available via Fangamer. An earlier version of him has fur for hair, before we switched to a more sculpted look.