Scarecrovv
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A colleague is a cosplay enthusiast and has decided to make herself a General Beatrix costume from Final Fantasy 9. The costume she can do, but she needed the 'Save the Queen' sword to go with it and she got wind that I was a bit of a prop maker on the side. She asked if I'd consider doing it for her and I said I'd be delighted if she covered the cost of materials.
Despite my best intentions, I've not played FF9 but as luck would have it, I bought the art book many years ago when the game came out because, well that's some mighty fine design work even if you don't play the game.
It's just aswell because, despite googling, images of this sword are few and far between. Another colleague was able to help out but this is the grand total of our efforts:
There were a couple of fan made props to see aswell of varying quality, but none particularly accurate.
Fortunately the plan from the art book is pretty much all I need and the elevation doesn't contradict it too much which is a bonus (and surprising too considering it's hand drawn!).
The scale was a bit of a struggle. In the full size image of the character it appears to be about the same height as her, maybe a little shorter as she's hunched, which is going to make it somewhere between five and six feet. However, the crossguard at that scale seemed way over the top, as did the hilt. Considering that Sally is only around 5 feet, I opted for a four foot sword that gave the crossguard and hilt a much more credible scale and Sally agreed too as she'll probably need to be lugging it around. I blew the Art book plans up to 4 feet in Photoshop and drew these plans over it. Drawing one half and then mirroring for perfect symmetry:
Crow
Despite my best intentions, I've not played FF9 but as luck would have it, I bought the art book many years ago when the game came out because, well that's some mighty fine design work even if you don't play the game.
It's just aswell because, despite googling, images of this sword are few and far between. Another colleague was able to help out but this is the grand total of our efforts:
There were a couple of fan made props to see aswell of varying quality, but none particularly accurate.
Fortunately the plan from the art book is pretty much all I need and the elevation doesn't contradict it too much which is a bonus (and surprising too considering it's hand drawn!).
The scale was a bit of a struggle. In the full size image of the character it appears to be about the same height as her, maybe a little shorter as she's hunched, which is going to make it somewhere between five and six feet. However, the crossguard at that scale seemed way over the top, as did the hilt. Considering that Sally is only around 5 feet, I opted for a four foot sword that gave the crossguard and hilt a much more credible scale and Sally agreed too as she'll probably need to be lugging it around. I blew the Art book plans up to 4 feet in Photoshop and drew these plans over it. Drawing one half and then mirroring for perfect symmetry:
Crow
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