Awesome mom, stuffed Max (lots of pictures)
My mother is awesome.
About two weeks ago, I showed my mother Avistew's stuffed Max. Knowing she crochets from time to time, I jokingly asked if she could make something like that, entirely expecting her to say she didn't have time for that or didn't want to, since she's only vaguely aware of Sam & Max. To my surprise, she said "I don't know, but I could try". I asked if she was serious, and she was. Woo!
So she bought thread, and I looked up and made screenshots of Max from all possible sides as reference pictures. She started working on the different body parts when she had time, expecting it to take at least a month.
But there we were this morning, not two weeks since she started, with all the parts done:
You can already see the basic shape here.
The pink circles are the ones Max has at the bottom of his feet.
Along with cotton, my mother had also bought a big bag of stuffing, so she got to work on filling out the different parts. When they were stuffed she added the pink in the ears and on the bottom of the feet:
Then, all that remained was sewing the different parts together
and adding a face.
The mouth was the hardest part to add. It's hard to show the edge of the mouth, since the most obvious choice, white, doesn't show at all. So she settled for pink.
Max was nice enough to pose:
Though it wasn't long until he started acting, well, Max-like:
But that does show he also has a tail.
You can imagine why I wanted to brag here about this
I know I could've posted this in the 'Fan Art' thread, but I thought it deserved its own topic.
Also, Max says 'hi':
About two weeks ago, I showed my mother Avistew's stuffed Max. Knowing she crochets from time to time, I jokingly asked if she could make something like that, entirely expecting her to say she didn't have time for that or didn't want to, since she's only vaguely aware of Sam & Max. To my surprise, she said "I don't know, but I could try". I asked if she was serious, and she was. Woo!
So she bought thread, and I looked up and made screenshots of Max from all possible sides as reference pictures. She started working on the different body parts when she had time, expecting it to take at least a month.
But there we were this morning, not two weeks since she started, with all the parts done:
You can already see the basic shape here.
The pink circles are the ones Max has at the bottom of his feet.
Along with cotton, my mother had also bought a big bag of stuffing, so she got to work on filling out the different parts. When they were stuffed she added the pink in the ears and on the bottom of the feet:
Then, all that remained was sewing the different parts together
and adding a face.
The mouth was the hardest part to add. It's hard to show the edge of the mouth, since the most obvious choice, white, doesn't show at all. So she settled for pink.
Max was nice enough to pose:
Though it wasn't long until he started acting, well, Max-like:
But that does show he also has a tail.
You can imagine why I wanted to brag here about this
I know I could've posted this in the 'Fan Art' thread, but I thought it deserved its own topic.
Also, Max says 'hi':
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She was super-fast, too! That's impressive. It looks pretty big, what size is it?
But I guess I would have gone for black for the mouth instead of pink. Looks a bit weird now.
Aside from that minor nitpick... Totally Awesome!
I agree, and also I think the eyes are too close together. (If we're nitpicking).
I think a medium-dark grey would have worked nicely for the mouth. That's what I usually use in my drawings of Max.
Maybe making Sam thread creations will become cool...
She was as surprised as anybody that it got finished so quickly.
Also, he's 63 cm high (24.8 inches) when he's standing, from his toes to the tip of his ears. No, mine!
I think if you use too dark a colour, it puts too much emphasis on the mouth edges, and Max's lips aren't really that visible, at least in his Telltale model, which is what it was based on.
Plus, I remember in one scene Max's lips do look pink-ish. I could be mistaking though.
EDIT: Not really. We looked closely at the screenshots I took of in-game Max, and his eyes are above his second tooth from the left and right, and below the inner edge of his ears. My mom copied that as close as she could in cotton Max.
mh you know, all these Max plushies are making me want to see if i still know anything about crocheting that i was taught way back in primary school.
I'll just have to look up the English equivalents to the Dutch crocheting terms
np: Autechre - pt2ph8 (Oversteps)
By the way, maybe you can answer this then: Where does he keep his gun...and his sock?
None of your damn business! She didn't want to make him a gun, I don't think she'd like her creation too violent.
I want one!
Does your mom take commissions on these?
Except for the wanting part, of course, since I've already got one
He IS huggable, yeah. One of the few things he doesn't have in common with the 'real' Max
Also, besides it probably being illegal, Steve having the copyright and all, my mom's pretty busy already. Sorry
I've been dreaming of making one for myself, but last time I made a plushie was in school about 10 years ago (a deformed purple giraffe creature), so.. I doubt it'd turn out to be good. But yes, enjoy your stuffed Max!
Avi, please, think of the children.
I prefer to think of the adults, if you don't mind. I find that works better for me.
Sometimes, when I'm awake at night, I see him sitting there, staring...
I wholeheartedly agree!
Well, maybe Max also has a bigger mouth and ears that are more apart
I was just sharing my gut feeling, it might be wrong of course, my first thought was just that his eyes were closer together than I'd expect. When I look at the ad at the top of the screen, width-wise his nose seems to be in the middle of his head, and each eye in the middle between his nose and the edge of his head.
Plush Max's eyes seem to be more a third away from the nose.
But hey, that doesn't make it any less awesome! I'm starting to feel like a joykiller lol, but I'm just trying to defend my previous random comment
It's more accurate than mine anyways, I didn't even give him the pink part in his ears
He's observing you... How cute...
Works better in the eyes of the law too.
Oh dear.