bead sprites!

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bead sprites!

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i figured you guys would be interested in this. friend of a friend's new business venture. i'm sure you're all familiar with those craft bead things you heat up and meld together to make some type of craft. this guy has taken it to an amazing level and is making magnets and things out of those based off of various game sprites. earthbound, final fantasy, chrono trigger, mario, etc. very cool.

the site isn't actually up yet but he's posted a gallery of things he's done.

http://beadsprites.com/gallery.html
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that's cute
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Post by kinn »

Those look good. The FF6 ones look great.
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Hey cool, he has strong bad too.
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Post by GSZX1337 »

I remember seeing something like these at insert credit. I was going to make one of Sonic from the SMS/GG games but the nearest Hobby Lobby is an hour away. :(
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Post by Bev »

Those are cool, especially the Dr. Mario and FF6 ones. How much is he planning to sell them for?
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probably cheap. i think he's going to take custom orders which would be awesome. he lives here in town so i'll probably get quite a few of these :)
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Post by Niode »

My fiancee suggested we did this the other day. I think we're going to be getting a bucket of beads and make our own sprite based coaster things. She used have a mario one when she was a child that she made.
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Post by aaron »

yeah it wouldn't be that hard to do at all. one bead per pixel. 4 per pixel if you wanted a big ass goomba or mushroom or something.
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Post by Ivo »

Are these beads easy to find? I'd like to get some, but I'm in Europe and I'm not so sure if they sell them here.

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