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Ivalice Moogle Plush

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I've loved the design of the Ivalice moogles ever since playing Final Fantasy XII.  I didn't even have time to finish a new costume for Anime North this year because I spent so much time perfecting this guy.

This is entirely patterned and hand crafted by me over many, many months.  It has pellets in its feet and butt for weight, armature in all the limbs as well as the wings for posing, embroidered mouth, paw pads and footprints, needle sculpting on the face, joints in all the limbs and neck, and strips of wrapped aluminum sheet in the ears so they don't have the bulk of the wire but still pose in all sorts of moods, and a pompom made out of Styrofoam and a red boa.  The pompom is attached to an imbedded Chicago screw in the moogles head so it can actually me removed for travel and storage.  The whiskers are a patch of extra long fur sewn into the cheeks to make it seamless.  The eyes are hand painted clear acrylic safety eyes and they have subtle eyelids out of the same material as the paws and ear linings to just set them off a little.  My favourite part may just be the feet which I did a raised embroidery technique to give it footprints!

I still need to sit down and tally exactly how many felt mock-ups I made for the various parts to make sure my moogle would look right.  Just the face and body I know had over 15 pattern variations sewn up, not counting early scrapped trial pieces.  I think I used somewhere around 180m of thread hand stitching the darts and seams on the final version! 

And yes it is just as cute and fluffy as it looks!  Come say hi if you see us at AN2016 this weekend. :3
Image size
750x1000px 189.36 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot D10
Shutter Speed
1/50 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
May 25, 2016, 11:09:53 AM
Sensor Size
4mm
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PeachyMiku's avatar
Oh my goodness, that is so adorable!