I am working on my first 3-D animal for a swap and I am making the pattern on my own (anotehr first). It's a shark and I'm starting to think it is too big. Nose to tail it is about 9" long and belly to fin it is about 4" high. In bendylandia, this would be a formidable shark, no doubt.

Should I make the pattern a bit smaller? If so, about what size?

Thanks,
Tamara

I'd make it no larger than 6 inches...
I mean, if you think of it in terms of 2 feet per inch... 2.5" bendies are 5 feet tall... that would make a 6 inch shark a 12 foot shark ;)

duh duh.... duh duhn... duh dun duh dun duh duh DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHH!

(ok, Selena's poor Jaws imitation, LOL!)

Thanks, Selena! I'm sewing it now for my daughter (she gets the prototype, lol!) and it is just HUGE! I'M scared! lol. I think I'll scale it down to a little over half its size now, about 5-6 inches. In the meantime I'm pretty excited about actually making an animal, even if it is horror-flick quality lol!

<chanting>: Pics, pics, we want pics :lol:

Lori

Glad I was not the only one not hearing the theme music to JAWS in my head while reading that..giggles.

Glad I was not the only one not hearing the theme music to JAWS in my head while reading that..giggles.

Honey, once you see the final product you will not only hear the music, you will hear the SCREAMS! ;)

Am almost done sewing the mammoth shark, still need to stuff it - may take a bit, depending on DD's cooperation ;) In the meantime, appreciate the fact that when I showed it to DD (who's just turned 2, so really she isn't *that* worldly) she got excited and I asked her what it was and she said "A WHALE!"

Nice. ;)

I am working on my first 3-D animal for a swap and I am making the pattern on my own (anotehr first). It's a shark and I'm starting to think it is too big. Nose to tail it is about 9" long and belly to fin it is about 4" high. In bendylandia, this would be a formidable shark, no doubt.

Should I make the pattern a bit smaller? If so, about what size?

Thanks,
Tamara

It sounds like Jaws - a great white. Stay out of the water bendies. :lol:

Honey, once you see the final product you will not only hear the music, you will hear the SCREAMS! ;)

Am almost done sewing the mammoth shark, still need to stuff it - may take a bit, depending on DD's cooperation ;) In the meantime, appreciate the fact that when I showed it to DD (who's just turned 2, so really she isn't *that* worldly) she got excited and I asked her what it was and she said "A WHALE!"

Nice. ;)

:lol: I have a pattern fora whale I have been wanting to make for oh... 3 years now, LOL... I am glad she loves it ;)

There is such a thing as a whale shark... and it IS big. ;) see, you did it on purpose, it's a bendy whale shark. Good job:smirk:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/species/Whaleshark.shtml whale shark

There is such a thing as a whale shark... and it IS big. ;) see, you did it on purpose, it's a bendy whale shark. Good job:smirk:

lmao! That picture of the whale shark and the scuba diver is not unlike my shark next to a bendy ;) lol!

This morning "Jaws" and I sat down and I made a smaller (read: half as long) model. DD will be pleased, I am sure, to have a mama shark(whale) and a baby shark(whale). Bendies *still* will tremble in fear when they see my new and improved minijaws on their nature table.

Thanks for the science lesson! lmao! Next stop: polymer clay surfboards - with a bite out of one end ;)

Tamara (I will not act out bad flicks with my daughter's toys...I will not act out bad flicks with my daughter's toys...I will not act out bad flicks with my daughter's toys...)

ROFLMAO!! I need one of those surfboards, lol!

We still need to see pics of this monstrous shark!!

ROFLMAO!! I need one of those surfboards, lol!

We still need to see pics of this monstrous shark!!

with said bendie, trembling in fear ;);pot:

lmao! Picks are coming, don't worry ;) I should be getting camera from the repair shop today :)

!!!!!!!!!!!!everyone get out of the water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I generally make animals "handful" size...and I try to keep them somewhat in scale to each other. The smallest animals are always a bit too big and the largest always a bit too small to be scaled accurately. But that only really applies to animals that might live together...like farm animals or forest animals (although my squirrel is about half the size of my deer...way wrong and I don't care :p )

The way I see it, it's your world and what you say goes. :) A child's imagination will glaze over size issues.