Dennis Box

I made a small Dennis Box from an index card for Marbecca. It wasn’t the best rendition of the dennis box, and I decided to make a better one, printable and easily reproducible.

Assembly Instructions:

1. print, using picture below
2. cut along outline
3. separate tabs from faces and other tabs. Do not cut into the faces or cut the faces apart.
4. Fold along all uncut lines.
5. Tape or glue tabs to the backs of the faces.

How I made it:

• Steal the faces from LawlietPandaLuvr
• cut faces apart and save each as an individual jpg
• use the foldable box function in inkscape to create a box with faces slightly bigger than Dennis’ faces.
• import Dennis’ faces and place over the box faces.
• export the whole shebang as a png, then open it with Gimp
• adjust it so that it fills a standard page, save as jpg
• print and assemble

The Dennis Box is from the Sora Show.

In the background of the pictures, you can see some of the contents of the next post. :)

Companion Cubes

I have a deep and unhealthy emotional attachment to them now… and people keep trying to take them from me! :(

I’ve been playing around with making companion cubes on dad’s 3D printer. I used emonk‘s version for the middle and biggest ones and gianteye‘s version for the smallest. I printed the middle one first and discovered that the top didn’t have enough ‘pixels’ to render the heart well.

A day, a 1.5 scale, a printer glitch and 50 minutes later, I had a palm sized one.

The heart on the top turned out much better and the sides are just as wonderful.

Jackson suggested that print one that the big one could fit on top of diagonally like the middle on did. That would take *forever*, so I printed an EVEN SMALLER one. The bottom failed quite a bit- the support structure didn’t stick to the build platform and then the bottom fell out while it was being printed. The sides are pretty good but the bump on the top is poor. It has no hearts because the printer doesn’t have the resolution, especially on the top surface, for that to work well at all.

Here’s the bottom of it.

And the three of them together! aren’t they cute?

From left to right, Inara, Kaylee, and Jackson. Yup.

Corduroy Hexapod

Every year the clarinet section does Spirit Bags for dome. Every year, I make a small stuffed animal for the sad person who gets something from me because small adorable animals are more awesome than candy.

Creative process

• What do I want? Adorable, no bigger than two hands side by side, easy to make.
• What makes things adorable? Big eye spots, fuzzy, looks like it wants a hug, non scary teeth if any, warm or bright colors… (felt, yarn, soft/stretchy corduroy or denim, contrasting threads, lotsa arms/legs)
• Easy to make means two flat pieces that get sewn together around the edges with no shaping at all- but also means the pattern is slightly more complex to take into account the warping the fabric will undergo when the animal is stuffed.

Step 1: The pattern-

Three Legs and a Paint Job

I did not know I could paint that well OR spontaneously sculpt like that. Miracles happen all the time!

Bubbles

please push picture for a bigger picture