I am a shinobi that sews.
I'm not sure how much anyone'll care about this, as I know it's rather outside of the norm for the Photo Booth section, but here goes!
My other (almost always gaming-related) hobby is designing and making plushes. My main focus at the moment is British and European computer and video game characters who've either received no merchandising attention at all to date, or very little and certainly never any soft toys.
I've ended up making quite a lot of plushes of lemmings (most of whom are characters from a long-running series of Lemmings-based stories that I've been creating for my own entertainment over the last eighteen years), but this is my first attempt at one of the (very few) canonical Lemmings-series characters...
I present, Lomax, the lemming knight protagonist from the Lemmings-series spin-off platform game of the same name (Note: Not my video - just one I found on YouTube). Fans of the Sega Mega CD/Amiga CD32 title, The Misadventures of Flink may recognise this game's style, as Lomax was that title's spiritual-sequel.
He was almost entirely hand-sewn, both due to my sewing machine taking an extreme dislike to the project, and due to there being lots of fiddly details that couldn't have been machine-sewn anyway. (If anyone remembers my mildly-superstitious thread in AmiRant about days when technology hates you, wherein I mentioned my sewing machine freaking out, this is the project about which it was not happy.)
He's based on the wonderful pixel-art of Henk Nieborg, who was both the artist and designer for the game. The box and manual images for the game are so far off from the in-game artwork that I didn't consider them to be valid reference sources.
Though his helmet is permanently attached, I took a couple of pictures to show how he looked without it, before it was added, too;
Now that he's finished, I have one hand covered with scratches, scrapes, and minor punctures, and another covered with thread-burns, complete with a thumbnail piercing created by accidentally running a needle and thread backwards through it with great force (luckily, I missed my skin by about a millimetre!). I need a few days off from this sewing lark...
Lomax has been my most complex project to date, and for a bit of a breather, my next couple of plushes probably won't be - I'm thinking I might create a plush of Dizzy, and then Billy Putty, next.
Anyway, yeah, that's my thing what I do outside of retro gaming and such. If you're at all interested in seeing more of my work, I have a website dedicated to it here.
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Originally Posted by NinjaRabbit
