eyestrain bifauxnen

y’all my friend decided to investigate what was blocking their drain system and you are not prepared for the answer

this picture begged to be painted. i gave it a nice frame too

hey, don’t cry, ok? Nine Reindeer Furbys carrying Santa Furby’s sleigh :)

The Puu x Furby hybrid no one asked for but every cosplayer dreams of! Coincidentally also my first custom job, but the skillsets lend into one another. I've shared his build notes, material list, and resources here.

images found while on google images ©

i think its important that you guys know these pics are from a quake lan party in 1999

truth coming out of her well, with apologies to Jean-Léon Gérôme

hey i just got Jean-Léon Gérôme on the line and he says this shit is dope

Due to a lull at work, I found myself with some free time.

So I decided to 3d model a furby because I couldn’t find a decent one online.

It came out ok in the end. But the process came with quite a bit of nightmare fuel.

I first did as much as I could without having to touch the hair sim. I had no idea how to do hair sim.

But I “luckily” found a quick hair sim button in blender. So that was looking quite nice. However I was a fool. I hadn’t yet touched any sliders on the hair particle system. And i still needed to add colour.

This should have been my first warning. I had to hide the face plate, so i could remove some of the hair bits that were clipping it. I wasn’t prepared.

Then I decided I wanted to have another bit of light hair on top. simply add a square under the hair and press the hair sim button.

simple.

right?

I don’t know exactly how I managed this, but somehow i had made the particle system use the data from the gravity sim to generate more hair.

I made the mistake of zooming out.

…

and zooming out more

My computer didn’t like that. The hair, It just kept going, but the more I zoomed out the more my computer slowed down. So this is as far as i was willing to push it.

After fixing that issue I put a bit more effort prettying the model up. First I added colour to the faceplate and its different parts, then I cooked up a quick and dirty procedural texture for the eyes.

finally I made a front hair sim for the white belly, this led to another problem. at some point the baked physics started getting…

weird.

no mater what I did the hair would just start growing a few frames in.

I tried everything I could! I scrapped the physics bake, I trawled through all the particle systems sliders. I changed numbers randomly. I even did a full uv unwrap, which I had been avoiding. nothing fixed it.

I really didn’t want to end up with something not a furby at the end of all this work. so i kept looking for a solution.

Then i found out it animated.

In the end I just saved the file (I’d realized I hadn’t saved once up until that point. almost had heart attack when it froze for a few seconds while saving), then closed and reopened blender. Of course the old, “turn it off then on again” worked perfectly.

So there you go, I now have a slightly cursed furby 3d model.

Image from the patent for the 2005 furby.

Ancient rune

terrifying and incomprehensible to the human mind?

…So I made an alternative for those godawful ahegao hoodies you see at conventions. Thanks to the kind people on twitter who donated their furbies for this :’D

And here’s where you can get a shirt

Or even a sweater!

truth coming out of her well, with apologies to Jean-Léon Gérôme

i’ve realized something terrible

i didn’t want to know this existed

this is, unequivocally, the worst post you have CURSED this site with

i just woke up from a dream where i was being interrogated by a bunch of people asking me if “furbies are kosher” firstly…. im not jewish. secondly……..what the fuck

please stop sending me asks pertaining to the kosher status of furbies. i really do not know. this was just a manifestation of my subconscious. im assuming that they are not kosher because furbies aren’t even food. but who knows! ask a rabbi, if you must. 

Jew here! Furbies are actually worse than unkosher–they are not permissible as food, even for gentiles. This is because the Torah teaches that it is forbidden for any human to eat the meat of an animal that is still alive, and the Furby cannot die.

hi this is the most ominous description of a furby i have ever heard

introducing…. POLYBIUS!

he is MOBILE! he’s got LEGS! he can TURRET!

FUNKY!