Items tagged with 'Sackboy'

While Matt was testing out some mouth animation code, this came out. CHEW BABY, CHEW!

I’m been up to my elbows in Photoshop, putting together lots of artwork, mainly for marketing, to show how gosh-darn-exquisite our game is. After the dust settled on a rampant session of cutting up bits of cardboard, sticking, photographing and tweaking, I had a few photos left over, one featuring Silvias real knitted Sackboy (who now lives in our office with us). I thought maybe a few people out there might like this “out-take” especially if it was in high-res desktop wallpaper form. So here it is. Save it to your desktop and you can stare into Sackboys eyes everytime the world gets you down, you format the wrong hard-drive, or you realize its still not September, and LittleBigPlanet STILL isn’t on the shelves…

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To answer the commenters, silvia is a German lady who lives in France, and as far as we can tell a knitwear genius who created the sackboy entirely based on what she’d seen online of our game! we don’t have a pattern (yet?!) and we haven’t even seen the physical toy ourselves – so far only those two pics, sent by the magic of the interweb all the way from La Belle France. We all want one too!

We’re all totally in love with our little Sackboy character, we’ve spent a couple years watching him run, jump and slap his way though dozens of levels, and the little chap has so much personality we could almost believe he’s real.

So our collective jaws hit the floor when we saw what one of our artists MOTHERS had made, Silvia’s actually made Sackboy, for real, in all his knitted and stitched glory! It’s so good we wondered if we’d hired the right member of the family to work here! (Not really, her son is making artwork for the game that will blow you away) but we can certainly see where he gets his talent from..

So adorable. It makes me want to hug him so tightly that his zip bursts and his button eyes pop out. But I won’t.

And here he is in the Chinese dragon costume:

Just in time to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!

Anyone else got anything to show?! :)