After many weeks, and after many nicks and cuts, I put the finishing touches on my hand-carved wooden Buzz Lightyear figure. I added individually carved arms and pinned them to the main figure with carved dowels. They move.
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Buzz Lightyear as an Easter Egg. What could be better? I really wanted to create the egg in the traditional way… with egg dye… but after the initial dip for the skin color, the shell wouldn’t take any other colors. I had to switch to markers.
The egg is hollow. I hollowed it out a couple of weeks ago. Why? Two reasons. One, because I wanted to keep it forever… and hard-boiled eggs do eventually go bad. Two, an empty egg has long been the “prestige” at the end of a Sunday School lesson referred to as “Resurrection Eggs”. Teachers use plastic eggs filled with various items (small cross, nails, cloth, etc) to teach and remind children about the Passion of Jesus Christ. The last egg is empty… which reminds us that though Christ did die for our sins, he is no longer dead and his tomb, though full, became empty on Easter Sunday.
This Buzz says, “I’m Agnostic”.
I found this cool pixel Buzz online and wanted to build it in Minecraft… so I did. I know I’ve done a few of these now… but I really enjoy seeing these super small pixel images done up as huge monuments in-game. I used a technique I found on YouTube to squeeze a few more colors out of Minecraft. If you build using two layers instead of one, you can sick a block back behind another and get a darker version of that color… because the game draws a shadow over it. So when you’re looking at Buzz here, the purple is actually all the same color… but the ones that appear darker are actually just set back one block.
This Buzz says, “I look much better than my predecessors.”
We got back from the Nobody’s Listening meetup in Orlando, Florida at 11:55pm tonight. I still hadn’t done my Buzz for today. I have several in the works… but none were ready. Then I thought, “Let’s make a Buzz out of dots!” So here’s what I came up with an hour later.
This Buzz says, “I may be made completely of little dots… but I’m still 100% man, babe. Rawr!”
This is the final evolution of what I believe a Pokemon Buzz Lightyear would look like. Hope you enjoyed the series.
This Buzz says, “I was going for farce, but I’m afraid it’s just coming off as annoying!”
This is the second evolutionary form of my Pokemon Buzz Lightyear. Check back tomorrow for his final evolution.
This Buzz says, “Buzzoid! I choose you!”
This is the first form of what I think Buzz Lightyear would appear were he a Pokemon. Stay tuned tomorrow and the following day as he evolves into his final form!
This Buzz says, “Buzzo! Buzzo!”
I made this Buzz using some colored craft foam and a 4 GIG USB Flash Drive. I love how the shoulder and elbow worked out to be the actual drive. The hand covers the USB socket itself and the arm bends at the elbow.
This Buzz says, “I thought I had that reattached.”
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This is not a pixel Buzz or even a pixelized Buzz… This is just a Buzz made from squares and rectangles.
This Buzz says, “It’s hip to be square.”
I was greatly inspired by the work of Ben Heine known as Pencil Vs Camera or Drawing Vs Photography. I did my own version. Of course it’s not a real photograph… but being that I’m doing a daily Buzz I started with a stock Toy Story 3 image and added my own work on top.
This Buzz says, “I have a fork for an arm!!!”