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i made this a while back when silksong just came out and i did it in appreciation for a bud who had been waiting very patiently just like so many others. i enjoy hornet's sewing capabilities as i share that fondness demonstrated here before (hope the link works). im not too familiar with her story but she feels hardened by resolve.
Hi, I'm Sugar. I'm the real one. :-)
oh hello! idk how this feature works so ill say hi :3
[ FEAR THE ONE WHO GUIDES MY BAT ]
had this one on the backburner over a month and finally finished it up!
update: forgot some layers lmfao
mild gore cw (skin peeling)!!
heres a few doodles of bad batter! transformation has always been my bread and butter, but what if he showed himself from under the skin?
been busy af but hopefully i can post more art when im free :)
assortment of scribbles :)
bad batter plushie update: since ive been incredibly busy (college ofc) i have taken some free time to redo his original legs. they werent supportive at all and i wanted to give him some new pants so i cut off his lower body and gave him new legs! unfortunately his neck snapped and now he cant hold his head up;; but that shouldnt be an issue. i know some good metal isnt too expensive to get.
assortment of batter doodles! been busy but ive been enjoying doodling him with different interpretations :) play slime rancher 2 its great :)
BAD BATTER PLUSHIE (redo) !!!!
finally finished the reconstruction of my bad batter plushie!! hes 110% MUCH better this time around! i reused quite a bit of the old plushie's resources! i reused the wires, legs, eye, teeth sets, hat, black top, and pants! in a sense hes been reincarnated using his old parts. he now has a proper plastic hinged jaw i specially made from scratch! it required a bit of machining and a lot of patience and redoing! in total this was easily a 60+ hour reconstruction!
still waiting on fabric to arrive (I HATE ORDERING ONLINE SO MUCH IT MAKES ME FERALLY IMPATIENT) and to figure out the design of the hinge system ill use. today though i made a new head template! spent quite a few hours refining this design so im confident thisll be the base i use in the final cuts! those curious can take a peek below for the pattern ^^ (ear isnt there but thats an easy add)
ive also been planning on the framework of the head! this is a more mechanical approach and its been really puzzling trying to not only figure out the structure i want but also how feasible it is to make it. the idea is to have a hinge where 1) its inexpensive and 2) its not impractical to make. in other words, i can make it without using specialized tools like blowtorches for welding n shit.
this pic above is one of many scribbles of frames ive tried to conceptualize.
this pic above though is likely gonna be the overall frame im gonna aim for. ive already got a decent plastic to work as the face plates. the problem is finding the hardware and shit for the hinge. for some reason theres so little resources on hinged maws in plushies on the internet, so im having to REALLY try n make this work. thankfully having engineering background helps, though ive never translated this to the plush making realm. if anyone has resources for the hardware please inquire! im open to ideas ^^
[A DECEPTIVE CONCEALMENT]
made this a few days ago! ill have a plushie update here soon :)
Another Tiny OFF Ramble But Its A Cool Connection I Made :)
Ive been thinking about this recently. How OFF is very comparable to "The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Leguin. (link here to the story btw! its a short read) The idea is that you jump into the story assuming youre in the eyes of a human. but as you continue to read, slowly but surely you recognize somethings not right. by the end of the story, its revealed the wife is a wolf within a pack and the husband is a werewolf who turns human and tries to kill his family. ofc this would make anyone go "wait what???" because up until the big twist, you were expecting just a normal story through human eyes. upon rereading, you realize there was many instances of subtle hints as to who you were reading in the eyes of. hints like:
"It was the moon, that’s what they say. It’s the moon’s fault, and the blood. It was in his father’s blood. I never knew his father, and now I wonder what become of him."
would raise an eyebrow of curiosity. then, the ultimate "yeah something's up" which is where i was when i read this story back in community college at first:
"And I saw what he saw. I saw the changing. In his feet, it was, first. They got long, each foot got longer, stretching out, the toes stretching out and the foot getting long, and fleshy, and white. And no hair on them."
this, in terms of OFF may as well be when you choose the true ending for the game. just based off the physical alterations of both the batter and the husband in the story. though, that seems really lazy to draw comparisons, just assuming a transformation makes a connection. though i wouldnt discount it because the deception in both media deceives the reader/player (being us) leads to that "shock" moment. perhaps the moment where youd say "wait i dont want this" is when you kill hugo. thats definitely not something anyone would want to do normally is kill a baby. but as much as you want to avoid damaging a harmless child, you cant progress otherwise so you have to kill him. thats one of the biggest red flags about the intent of the batters "mission". point im trying to make, the reader feels that moment where they realize "hey wait a minute this isnt right".
idk what these two would be called. i mean, i do have a lot of trouble finding words (im an engineer, i dont speak in words i speak in numbers and formulae and also ADHD makes it hard to articulate thoughts) but the word "deception" keeps surfacing in my mind.
hopefully i got my point across! or at least i got the idea of comparing the two across. what do you think? id love to hear ^^
for your troubles, take this cool rock i found :)
tysm for reading!
its only been a few days but the tiny tail got me sold. i made a paper prototype of the tail which is just 4 pieces and i just really like it.. it adds a lot to him!
the overarching idea is to do a rework of bad batter tbfh. polar fleece is very bad for cuddling so i went ahead and bought some minky fabric to rework his skin! (btw heres the site i used! https://caliquiltco.com/ ) gonna also redo the wiring in his face as its difficult to close his mouth (gonna do research and testing at some point). basically his skin is gonna be converted to minky. which tbfh isnt THAT much work so it could be done as soon as im able to get the fabric (and the free time cause engineering students never get a break). creating the wiring will be the most fun for me cause i love trying to figure out how to create pins and hinges. p much creating a mechanical device thats entirely powered by outside forces and the stiffness of the material im working with.
made a realization (both pics below are from mortis ghost btw not my work)
i think ive been playin myself a fool. lookit that. i think hes got a little tail. question is, will i incorporate this knowledge into what i already know? more than likely. its been interesting trying to dig around and find mortis ghost's work. but i found it peculiar this is the one time i find there being evidence of a tail for the bad batter. will a plushie edit be in order? probably. though itd be a major overhaul if i do. plus i might wanna fix his muzzle since the wires keep rotating since i didnt put in a hard plate to prevent that. but this information makes me happy ^^
Some Rambling OFF Thoughts (Plus Bad Batter Post-Plushie Comments)
Firstly tysm everyone who's been enjoying my stuff so far! i just post here when i get a severe round of ADHD and OCD and love to post my work here! ill start with my overall thoughts about my experience exploring the OFF tags on tumblr (then it just devolves into meshing with the plushie stuff so haha i love ADHD :)
looking at mortis ghosts' old tumblr and seeing the sketches hes done for OFF over the years really hits home with the idea that you dont gotta stick to one exact character design. no one's interpretation of the characters is right or wrong, its what YOU see. reflecting on the bad batter plushie i made recently made me really wanna look at everyone's interpretations of the bad batter. i thought before when i originally saw the sprite of the bad batter, that he did have two white eyes. but the more i looked at some of mortis ghosts other works, i noticed how much it varied from piece to piece. ultimately i had to make a choice. how was i gonna make his head? well i had a few options. i either make him have two eyes or one central eye that looks to follow you like a duskull. i see some folk give him a tail. some folk give him spines like a gator and leaning into that motif a bit. its all very intriguing to observe and cross reference. i think what im trying to say is that the bad batter plushie design was influenced by everyones interpretaion of him, not just mortis ghost ^^ so he feels a lot more special to me. ill attach my template for anyone interested, but PLEASE be warned!!! i did NOT use these sizes!! always ALWAYS make prototypes before cutting fabric! also i did make adjustments OUTSIDE of this template. unfortunately, my OCD and ADHD got the best of me and while i saw my goal, i forgot to consider minor things during the templating process that cropped up later during the project. so please, dont give into those demons x3c
How I prep for cutting if i am unsure about my template: use translucent paper or just regular copy paper and cut out a mini version of my template and assemble with tape!!! the thing about fabric and paper is that they have very similar rigidity and doing a paper prototype not only saves time but also money!
the thing about the bad batter plushie and how i decided to go about it is that i saw his head as a shell. the problem with this is that i havent had much experience with trying to wire something AND have it act as a hollow opening for a plush. the experimental vs actual results would definitely show that its not as easy said than done on paper vs applying it!
The First Hurdle: The Hands!!
i began with his long spindly hands! unfortunately i am still dealing with the aftermath of my hasty creation process and the polar fleece i had laying around is NOT good cudly fabric! this is a classic case of me leaping before thinking (thanks ADHD!) and these were a BITCH to sew and flip!!!! the problem that made it worse was the wiring which i used old notebooks with those bendable wires to make his body flexible. my poor ass pliers (well theyve been through worse, i do have a lot of tools as i do house work and am the fix it gal ;) the mechanical engineer is engi-here! also shoutouts to my Kobalt pliers, theyre the real MVP here)
im just gonna block post the works in progress cause this took up 3 days of near nonstop work. i believe i said it was around 30 hours of work!
the next biggest hurdle was the one i was dreading the most: THE BIG CHOMPIES!!!! tell yall what this was no joke a real challenge to my engineering brain!
these particular screenshots were after 6 HOURS of working JUST on the teeth! though i did genuinely love how they came out!!!
the head after the last bits of the lower jaw were sewn and the inside of his head were closed up! the eye was planned to be in the center of the black strip inside his face so that it can sit.
body p much done! he was just missing his top and his hat! at this stage it was p much done. and after all that the plush was done!
so, what would i have done differently? what can i offer to anyone whos looking to try to make him or really any plushie? well first, CALM YOUR IMPULSES if you have ADHD like i do!! the hastiness of that is what screws you over later in the project! for example, above with the template. also, be mindful of how much space you have when you turn fabric inside out, that will save you a LOT of headache! anyways ty for reading if you made it this far! i do appreciate it <3 !!!
BAD BATTER PLUSHIE!!
took me 30-ish hours to complete!! hes got bendable appendages and gives awesome cuddles!! template was made from scratch in roughly 3 hours. hes wired and has a few bendable joints for flexibility!
i love him sm! hes my little friend on my desk now!!
some doodles i did last night :3
also! update! i made a bad batter plushie i have to give a proper intro to! hes very polite and can be posed!
mlemlemem :3
wanted to make something cute with the batter :3