For a couple of weeks I've been working on this gradually, and only today have I reached the final stages of touching up my nice big poof. Foot rest poof, that is. Or poofie, as I was brought up to call it. (?)
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| My house now requires its own 'terrain.png'. Zipped, of course. |
For all the Minecraft people out there, you'll recognise this straight away, as it's based on the unmistakable ordinary dirt block.
I took the opportunity to use the same high-pile rug material from Ikea as I already have as my carpet, so they blend together very nicely. You can buy it in 1M squared for only £10, and this only used half of it.
It did of course involve cutting the rug carefully into various pixel-edged shapes.
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| Cutting rugs gives me...grass |
The poofie itself started as some sort of dull, black square bean bag. In fact, it still is - I simply glued all my materials on top of it.
I started by covering the bean bag in big sheets of felt as the base, then cutting out an annoyingly large quantity of 1-inch felt squares in every shade of brown I could find (amazingly, each side of the bean bag measured exactly 16 inches; 16x16 also being the resolution of all Minecraft textures).
I then got to work gluing the darn little things onto the cube.
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| In Arnie accent: "GLUE IT! GLUE IT NOW!!' |
I used about 8 glue sticks in total fixing the whole thing together. EIGHT!! That's nearly ten!
I should imagine that's about half a pint of glue.
It wasn't as easy as it sounds, however, as often my rows seemed to go astray and I ended up having to trim some of the squares down, or use bigger ones. And the glue guns were super gunged up and faulty by the end, I was basically having to double-wield them.
This is quite possibly the only Minecraft-related art project in the world ever that has required the use of two glue guns at once. Unbelievable.
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| TOP NOTCH |
But overall, I'm quite happy with the result. I can sit in my rocking chair like a proper old granny and put my feet up on a Minecraft dirt block.
BAD.
ASS.
