Final Fantasy 13 - Save Terminal

Ok. To describe what i am doing i give a short introduction:

Since there are no model extractor tools for Final Fantasy 13 I decided to do a model similar to the "original" by myself. I chose the FFXIII Save Terminal (picture beneath). I took a few photos of my screen with my camera to get the perspectives i needed for the model. Then i started to model it in Google SketchUp.

So you can see my progress in this thread. Stay tuned for updates!



[edit: April 19th]


[edit: April 20th]
Testbuild of closed save-unit (resized to 8 cm height):



[edit: April 20th]

The main unit is done now i think. there are maybe some changes to do. I already added some details. In the game the modelers worked with a lot of textures to give it a 3 dimensional look. I will try to model these textures in real 3d models as you can see at the green little tubes and the left display.


[edit: April 21st]

added new details. buttons and "panel":

original:
mine:

Lamborghini Gallardo

Hi,

built this little model today in about 1 hour... i was bored:


...in addition to that i want to present my self built "Light Box". It helps me a lot to do better photos of my models: (Even though it has a limited height/width)

Al Bhed Sphere

Time for a new model. It's an Al Bhed Sphere model from Final Fantasy X. This little thingys help the player to understand the Al Bheds' conversations appearing at several parts of the storyline. So learn a little bit more about the Al Bhed building this sphere :)

20 cm in diameter and about 9 cm high:

download here: Al Bhed Sphere (pdo & pdf)

Lifesize Ultima Sword anyone?

Well i was bored and found a few weapon files on my external harddrive. I don't even know if it is the "right" size to be lifesize. I just did it by eye calculation. Such a big model, 153cm to be precise (equals 60 inch), doesn't really fit anywhere in my small room. I am thinking about hanging it on the wall ^^ Please post your comments how you like the model and if i should build it. For those who want to be faster than me; downloadlink below:

1. I haven't tried out if all the flaps are positioned right. If you really think about building the model, check out what you do before you cut the pieces out!

2. There are no inner supports, so if you build it, it will maybe bend at some areas. My tip is to measure the thickness of the hilt cause that is the thickness of the whole sword! Then you can add a long "whatever" at the inside of the whole thing to make it stable.

3. I just printed out one part of the blade and well, it looks very blurry. That happens if you resize a little game sword to a lifesize monster. Hmm vector graphics ftw?

If you find a wrong flap please comment it!


download here: Ultima Sword
download here: Ultima Sword (small)
download here: Ultima Sword (PDF)

FF IX - Vivi

And here comes Vivi. I liked this little figure so much that i had to build it on my own. He will get a special place in my showcase. Here is the result:



Done with all my "Side Projects", i will now concentrate on the models you chose with the polls i made. And of course i will continue working on Rikku [Machina Maw]!

Little Palmtree

When i looked over aarons' blog i found the link to the templates of this little palm tree. So i built it in about 30 mins. Really easy, really nice:

God of War "Schwolch"

Hi everybody!

As always i am working on side projects, this time it is the god of war weapon posted on Papercraft.net a couple of days ago. Check out the pictures:


You may be confused about the name "Schwolch". A friend of mine and I talked about the weapon and we weren't able to define wether it is a sword (in german "Schwert") or a dagger (in german "Dolch"). So we decided to put both together -> "Schwolch" ^_^

Little Bonsai

What a nice idea of Zerolabor ! Create your own bonsai =)