Forsaken Crafts

Projects Galore

2011-03-14T07:53:00.000-07:00

And not the good kind. Yeah, I'm a bastard with no ability to commit to for-fun projects, I know. It's difficult, but I just have so much shit to do. It's my fault, honestly, but whatever. Terra's still without an upper body, ugh. I gotta straighten my life up, haha.

But yes, let me tell you guys about a few projects I've been working on. To start off, I'll tell you about my school shit as to confirm that I'm not just pulling stuff off. I have 3D Design along with Painting this semester. Both are very interesting, but i need to do quite a bit at this point on my own time. It gets frustrating in 3D because I've yet to understand the concept of asymmetry. Got a few pointers from a friend though, so I should be good. I hope. I need to do a texture project, and a project completely comprised of right triangles. Both will be somewhat difficult to pull off for me. My previous projects weren't exactly a hit for Nicholas Cage. Yes, my professor looks like a taller version of Nicholas Cage.

In terms of papercraft projects I do, indeed have things planned out. Frankly, I don't think I can do Kefka right now. He's kinda complicated for my skill level, and though it pains me to say that, I want Kefka done correctly. ANYONE OF THE FF-PC PEOPLE ARE WELCOMED TO WORK ON HIM. Ask Kaizo or myself for his current pose. He's in the Trine pose from Dissidia.

In terms of my current projects though, I've decided to take it a bit easy, but to work with some creative license. I've recently gotten into a game called Heroclix, which is essentially a tactics game with DC and Marvel characters. It's very reminiscent of Final Fantasy Tactics, which I like. Of course it's quite different, but it's a different game. I personally find the maps/boards that you have to play on really dull and boring. There are hindering terrains, but no actual terrain. So what I'm going to do is make a 3D map out of papercraft, and other support materials. The map itself will be glued on some wood, and then the terrains will be made by me. This time I'm going to work off sprites from a particular game I've yet to choose. At some point I'm going to make 3D models on Sketchup or something for the terrains, but not yet. My first shot will use a more ghetto approach.

I'll keep you guys posted. Until then, stay FABULOUS!

Kefka Status

2011-02-11T20:22:00.000-08:00

Finally started working on Kefka. Need to finish a few things with his model first though, which may be a problem. I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do. Should be fine though... Anyway, aside from working with that I've been building Kaizo's Terra model. It's coming along nicely, but I'm more or less at a stand still. I've had work and college more or less nonstopped these past few weeks, so.

Post note: My cat is an annoying prick that won't stop meowing at me for no damn reason.

Windows 7 Ultimate

2011-01-05T08:35:00.000-08:00

So my computer crapped out the other day when I installed an inferior video card to my own in hopes that I'll be able to use dual monitors with it. My mistake, but it led me to the revelation that is Windows 7. I've played with it before, of course, but I never had it. Anyway, I formatted my computer. Now I'm bring back all of the files I backed up. It may take another day, what with the other stuff I need to do. I ordered a new card though, and it'll most definitely help me with my 3D software. So after I organize my papercraft stuff I'll be working on those projects I mentioned before. Just an update. Awesome for me, uninteresting to you, I know.

Post Christmas Blues

2010-12-28T05:35:00.000-08:00

Things have been slow lately around Final Fantasy Papercraft. Just as an update, Kaizo's more or less off the scene in terms of releasing anything. He'll still be around though, ofcourse. I've been in a huge slump. I mean HUGE. I want to delete all of these complainy posts, but... Ugh... At any rate, I'm still having the same issues as before; an inability to rip Digimon models myself. Everything that I've built thus far has been ripped by Zerox or someone else.

I'm going to invest in a laserjet as to not waste soo much money on ink. I'm still trying to pull strings to be able to get free prints in school, but the art department covets their ink. Hell, I don't blame em, but damn.

I do have some decent news though. I did finish a few layouts in pepakura before, and I have stuff waiting to be printed. I have Machinedramon and Meramon, but I'm not going to do Machinedramon until later. He's really big and I don't have anywhere to put him atm.

Need to invest in shelving...

Anyway, that's it. I'm gonna try ta finish sooner than later as to get out of this God awful slump.

First Semester Sophomore Year = Beastly

2010-11-15T05:46:00.000-08:00

No updates today, though were any of you honestly expecting any? I've been busy as of late with college. It's almost the end of the semester (December 18th I believe) and I've just been dished out extreme amounts of work. Hohoho... To begin with I had around 12 assignments to do, and now I'm down to about 8... I think. Either was, I need to hustle. Lots of work, and I've just been distracting myself with every little thing that arises. I'm so not taking this many credits this year... Hohohoho... No.... Anyway, I'm considering working on the Kefka Dissidia project from ways back that Kaizo was planning on doing. I hope that I can get the okay to use the school printers though, because the printers I've been using have been a real drain on my wallet. Rest assured though that there will be new releases, as I have a lot of layouts ready to be printed, just haven't had the time to work on them. As you know, my instructions for my moogle sucked, so I'm considering trying to make as best instructions I can using fragments from the Pepakura file. We'll see how that goes. Machinedramon will still be made, as I have everything set for for him, but I don't want to actually build him yet. I want to build some other models first. I'll let you know how it goes. Anyway, yes, expect some developments soon. Gotta go to class.

Later.

Organization XIII Moogle - Release

2010-09-23T19:27:00.000-07:00

I've finally decided to release my first model. Hoorah! It's really not that great, but it's not bad... Anyway, I hope you enjoy building this one. I don't have picture instructions, but I did give you notes to look at when you build. I didn't take enough pictures to really make an adequate guide. But yes, here you go, you lil' morsels you!


Download

Stay tuned for more progress on Machinedramon, mi compadres.

Preview (Kinda)

2010-09-13T16:29:00.000-07:00

Hello people. I've been kinda busy since college started again, ad I have a shitload of work to do, but I figured I'll do as much school work as I can quickly so that I don't have to worry about it later. I'm currently working on Machinedramon (slowly) and its going to be a bigger model. Ingame he was more than twice the size of Hiro, who in papercraft form is about 5.5 inches. I think I'll make Machinedramon 12.5 inches or so.

For those of you who can't remember how he looks like ingame, or just aren't into Digimon, take a gander:

Apparently the guy who enlightened me as to how to rip these models has ripped and compiled all of them. Somehow I think I heard wrong though. Unless he's seriously dedicated... Either way, I'm in no shortage of projects. I need to play videogames though... I NEED to. I'm going through withdrawal. I need to finish my FF7, FF6, and FF1 replays. Oh Mayan God x_x Then I need to play Crisis Core.

2010-09-07T17:31:00.000-07:00

Hey guys. I haven't posted all that long ago, but I wanted to let you know about some projects I intend to do. I was feeling kinda out of it before, so I couldn't really articulate anything. Anyway, here are a list of future projects that I have set up already. Sorry, no pics just yet.

Machinedramon - Digimon World
Seadramon - Digimon World
Monzaemon - Digimon World
Myotismon - Digimon World
Ninjamon - Digimon World

I am looking forward to making more models from this game, but right now I just don't have the means to get the models compiled correctly. Wait a week, ha. I may or may not be showing you pics of my progress, depends of how it's coming out.

I have a few non-Digimon related models in mind aswell as a whole series. You see, as a self-proclaimed demonologist I love my demons. Monsters in general are close enough to demons for me to wanna do something with them. Digimon themselves are more "demon" than "monster" to me. But anyway, I intend to make models for the creature models in Crisis Core, possibly starting with Behemoth.

Kukukukuku... That's a lot of items isn't it? We'll see how it goes. One last thing though, if anyone knows off the top of yer heads how to rip Tatsunoko vs Capcom models, tell me. I would very much like to make a Morrigan model. I do believe Lilith made a brief cameo aswell. If I can get her model I'll gladly make her aswell. Tiny steps though.

Organization XIII Moogle

2010-09-06T07:25:00.000-07:00

Here's the Organization XIII Moogle I said I would do. I actually finished this guy a few days ago, but haven't felt like uploading any pics yet. The Pepakura file still needs some work, and I need to do instructions and what not. I'll be honest, don't expect em for a while. Too much shit to do. Here're some pics.

High n' Mighty

*Dramatic*

Digimon World: Hiro

2010-08-30T09:45:00.000-07:00

Finally got around to ripping some Digimon World models with the help of the people down at Warcraft Unlimited. I'm still not completely sure how to apply the textures on the models correctly because they have no bones. Their limbs are all over the place and that makes it a puzzle. This makes the textures kinda wonky, and you'll see an eye on Agumon's crotch or elbow or something. It's cool, just difficult. I'll figure it out eventually though. The guy who explained the ripping process, smasher86, uploaded the protagonist Hiro, and a few of the Digimon you see early in the game, so I just used the Hiro model he uploaded.


Hiro standing on my Demitri and Night Terror decks.


Pretty good for my first shot, aye?

This is officially my first model. I didn't have such a fun time gluing the limbs together. In fact, the Pepakura for this lil' guy kinda sucks. I'm going to edit it up and release it later. Hope you guys like it though!

Right now I'm working on the Organization XIII Moogle. It's not a very good model, as it doesn't really have a body, but I'll make it work. It's from the DS game, so it isn't a super complicated model unlike the other KH models. Well that's all for now. Later!

My UFS Roster

2010-08-24T21:21:00.000-07:00

I don't usually get too many chances to play UFS, especially during the summer. With school coming up I'm getting a few decks ready, and I decided to make a roster. I've already made a couple of good decks, so I figured I'd post the characters I use up.

Street Fighter
M. Bison
T Hawk
Vega (Under Construction)
Chun-Li (Under Construction)

Darkstalkers
Demitri
Jedah

Soul Calibur
Cervantes/Algol
Night Terror
Raphael (Under Construction)
Voldo (Under Construction)
Mitsurugi (Under Construction)

SNK
Kula (Under Construction)
Iori (Under Construction)

I'm not usually into hardcore nerd stuff, but Hell if I care. Haha. I love card games and I don't give a damn who knows it.

In other news I have been working on Final Fantasy Papercraft all this time, and should be done with all of my... Erm.. I guess possible work by Tuesday. After that I'm going to give this site a bit of a makeover, how much I don't yet know though. I've been working on a layout for a model Kaizo sent me aswell. I'm not too ambitious right now only because ink is a real problem right now. We'll see what happens though. I should probably try to finish it anyway...

Almost time...

2010-07-18T07:42:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, it's been far too long. I've been very busy, but that is unimportant right now. What I will say, though is that I just recently moved and am now settled in. I have the time to dedicate to this site now. Frankly I don't know what to focus on anymore. I know that you all know how it feels like to want to do multiple things, but not have enough time to do so. This is my situation with my hobbies. I haven't papercrafted in SOO long. It makes me sad... Anyway, until I can clean some stuff up and get some files in tip-top order, I won't be releasing anything or showing you guys anything related to papercraft. I need some cash for this hobby and that's at a low. I will show you my first release soon though. With luck...

For now I'll be putting up more Soul Calibur 4 CaS formulas. I'm not too into the game anymore to be honest, but I like the character customization, and I've made some good ones other the months of me playing on and off. Now, if you'll excuse me I need to attend to a few things. Expect some updates within the coming weeks.

Stay sexy, people.

Some nice replay editing!

2010-01-22T18:24:00.001-08:00

Hey, I thought I would send some videos your way. These are three of the many Dissidia Replay edits made by Disk29 of Youtube. The quality of this reply really is something to marvel at. These are most likely the best edits I've ever seen. Very nice, take a gander.

SC4 CaS - Nightmare SC2

2010-01-12T07:34:00.000-08:00

Formula: [Screenshot] - [TXT]

Comments:
Nightmare's outfit from Soul Calibur 2 is my personal favorite. It's the iconic Azure Knight armor before Zasalamel pulled his voodoo and made Nightmare's armor organic in SC3, and since Namco released it as a DLC I couldn't help but buy it. I looked at the reference very carefully to get the colors and general outfit correct, and though it's not perfect I think that I did the best possible with the limited parts I had to chose from. All the colors are a bit different because a lot of the parts were of a different "texture" and looked strange in certain stages. I think everything is pretty spot-on though.

UFS and Helmet Updates

2009-12-03T19:07:00.000-08:00

Still working on the Gabranth helmet. I haven't put on any pieces since my computer went nuts. I'm not being lazy, I've just been really busy. Next week is the last week of the semester (Not including finals) and I've been studying for tests and stuff. Doing work on the whole. I digress though. The helmet was actually really easy to make, just tedious. I'm not going to show my progress since it's almost done, but I'll post some pictures later. It's mostly to show off where I'm putting it in my depressingly small room. Unfortunately I may not have enough space to continue my hobby. Never stopped me before though.

Got my shipment of UFS cards on the 30th. I'm pleased with my purchase. UFS is actually a really fun game once you get the hang of it. I like to keep the fighting game experience and not tamper with the decks (too much.) My friend Milton and I were playing a game. My Chun-Li deck versus his Sagat. I was doing fine, but I was taking too much time. As I found out, Sagat hurts. A lot. He builds up a whole lot of foundations and uses them as an aid to his attacks. The bastard hit me with an attack of 20. Chun-Li starts off with 20 life. Yeah, I lost. It's all good though.

In unrelated news I've found that I think way too fast. My mouth can't keep up with my thoughts. It's not abnormal for anyone to do this, but I'll often hear peoples' sentences before the complete them, leading me to interrupt on occasion. Makes me feel pretty bad; I don't mean to. Cut-off someone today as they were talking. Feel like a gigantic ass. Oh well, I'll just have to fix my habits.

Gabranth Progress

2009-11-27T11:10:00.001-08:00

Hey, Happy Belated Thanksgiving to you all. I haven't had the chance to do that update that I was talking about yet, but I started a new project that I've been trying to rush (Otherwise I might not be able to finish. Damn DaVinchi Syndrome) Anyway right now I'm working on a papercraft by Kaizo, Gabranth's Helmet. It's pretty damn cool, and so far it's going along great. Here're some pics.

The easy part

Bad lighting, but awesome. Hey look, pound cake...

How sexy is that? Cutting board ftw.

That's my trippy monitor. Crappy walls I know. I don't intend to live here much longer.

Anyway yeah, that's my helmet so far. It's looking good. Right now I'm almost done with the right horn, but it's truly a bitch. It's not hard, but it's time consuming. Well worth it though, can't wait till it's done.

Well, I'm still waiting on my UFS cards. They're supposed to be coming on Monday, but I don't want to wait that long. Also, right now it's in a UPS facility less than an hour away from my house, so it should come a tad bit faster.

I'll be working on the site once I finish the helmet, and I will finish it. Untill then, seeya.

Universal Fighting System

2009-11-23T15:27:00.000-08:00

Hey, this is a shout-out to anyone who has ever liked card games or fighting games. Universal Fighting System is a card game based on fighting games. It's pretty damn interesting and plays well, so I thought I would do some advertising.

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Universal Fight System (UFS) is a card game originally designed by Sabertooth Games. The cards themselves are designed after popular fighting games including Street Fighter, Dark Stalkers, and Soul Calibur. It's pretty new, it only started late 2006 with theme decks based on PENNY ARCADE. Later on the publication rights were passed onto Fantasy Flight Games. (This was more or less taken from Wikipedia, but I know you won't hate me for it)

Fighting games included in UFS so far are:

Street Fighter
Dark Stalkers
Soul Calibur III & IV
The King of Fighters 2006
Samurai Showdown
Tekken 6

They also included an original IP called "Shadowar," not to mention the Penny Arcade decks.

It's a really interesting card game, and it's pretty fun too. I strongly suggest you pick it up if you have some time on your hands. Who knows? Maybe the day you pick up a deck from your local card shop, you'll meet that hot geeky girl of your dreams that can kick your ass in Street Fighter. Then you'll somehow score a date, get lucky, maybe even get married. Then you go on with your happy life like normal when you find out that -BOOM- your hot geeky wife is pregnant. Nine months later and she's delivering you'll be thinking "Oh God bless that Zinarei of Forsaken Crafts! *tear* for without this, none of this would have ever happened! Thank you for my hot geeky wife! And my hot geeky children! Aye Men!" and then you and your hot geeky wife live happily ever after with your hot geeky kids. All thanks to me. You should freakin name your children after me I'm so damn great.

But I digress.

Here's some links you may find useful:

Fantasy Flight Games [UFS]
Collectable Card Game Database [UFS]
Universal Fighting Wiki

Soul Calibur 4 - Create a Soul Formulas

2009-09-09T10:33:00.000-07:00

Here you'll find formulas for Soul Calibur 4 Create a Soul (CaS) characters that I've made over time. I try to make them as close to the real thing as I can. That said, the colors that I use may be all over the place, but I'll try to make the formulas easy to enter. The CaS I make typically aren't made for Special Fights, so keep that in mind. I'll put up a special section for those kind of characters if I ever get around to posting them. I hope you like what you see, and feel free to use em.

Soul Calibur
Nightmare from Soul Calibur 2

This section of Forsaken Crafts is inspired by Soul Gateway, a great SC4 CaS site that greatly outshines this lil' section.