December 18 - Beaver

"Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth."

~ Mallory Hopkins

On the third day of Twistmas,

Balloon guy made for meeeeee:

Beaver stealing candy,

Moose with lights in antlers,

And a penguin sorta Christmas-syyyy!

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Leave it to beaver ... 

... to be the next in Patrick Van De Ven's Holy Snail Design-the-Entire-Animal-Kingdom Survival Pack.   

I needed to add arms, these worked out okay, but they're just shy from being mandibles.

(view other beaver)

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Other balloons by and inspired by Patrick Van De Ven:

January 8 - Loopy Beaverz

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

~ Samuel Johnson

I feel like I'm part of a musical montage, but living it slow real time as I sort of retrain my fingers and brain.  Later it will be cut to the Rocky theme song, but right now we are rocking out hard to a book on tape.

Consider this Day 3 in the "Quest to Build the Anything".

The beauty of a simple design is that you get a lot of attempts and freedom to play and experiment and try different approaches.  "I wonder if I could ..." becomes almost second nature, and if this is an experience point bubble, I want to collect as many of those as possible.

I originally made the beaver's teeth much bigger, but the effect of the large buck teeth carries even with tiny teeth since they're the only ones visible and having them big seemed to interfere with the log chew.   

Other balloons by and inspired by the David Brenn:

September 27 - Sweet Beaver

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is it! - the final balloon from Eric Weinstein's Sweet Cheeks Volume 2 - and yes he did get a bit "cheeky" with this one.

This beaver is probably the most involved creation on the video, there are a lot of different balloons and you must pay attention to the sizes of a few elements or it will be a mess as my first attempt was.

I made a giant beaver out of these awesome new Betallatex 11" hearts, but it got me thinking about (and this might show my age) how big and awkward Beaver got on Leave it to Beaver.  Cute as a tiny boy to say "Gosh Wally!" - but so awkward that they tried to pretend he was still so young in the later episodes.

Oh Ward.

Here is the full list of Sweet Cheeks from volume 2:
Ladybug
Monkey
Panda
Mouse
Hippo
Bull
Lemur
Yellow Angry Bird
Lion
Beaver (you are here!)

Big Beefer	When is lunch?  Tree o'clock.
Well I'll be dammed!  We've finished building all the sweet cheeks!

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Other posts with Eric's designs:


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