Tears of the Kingdom and Katamari
Damacy are basically the same. In both games, you play a little guy dressed in
green that gets sent up into the clouds to meet your new King Sky Daddy.
Oh wow. Then he tells you need to go back down to the
surface and start sticking things together. Then you do that for a hundred hours. So today I will be rolling
up a big garbage Katamari, but built in the style of Tears of the Kingdom. We’ll first start with making a little
guy that just needs to reach their friend. Preferably in a way that
doesn’t endanger their life. The first step is to grab my rag bag.
This is a bag of clothes that can’t be donated because someone keeps cutting off
tiny pieces of fabric for various projects. This little piece of polyester
blend will be the Korok’s backpack. But the only camping essentials in this
pack is an aluminum foil egg for structure. The first layer of fabric is a little
sloppy and slightly transparent. So we’ll need a second layer, but this time,
folded up very carefully like “origami.” For the bottom of the pack, I’m
using this default t-shirt green. Then hiding that horrible trim
line with a hair tie as the hem. Using another shirt segment, I
rolled up the Korok’s blankie. Then to make sure it won’t fall off in transit… I strapped it down using the
canvas-like tag of said shirt. The shirt also came with free seams, which you
can use to imply an accessible front pouch. And to complete the pouch aesthetic, some
leather straps sliced from this pleather scrap. Then come the rhinestones, which I
flipped over and glued on upside down so the pack buttons don’t look too glamorous.
Speaking of glamorous, it’s time for accessories! I thought about making a tiny teapot, but instead
bought the official Tamiya 1/35 scale teapot plastic model kit for $22 US dollars.
I called the kettle black. And then I called the kettle
a dry-brushed metallic chrome. And I strapped this hot pot to side of the
pack, along with its matching metal mug. On the opposing side of the pack
will be a cute little acorn lamp. And for that, we’ll need a Penguin of Madagascar. This penguin foot looks close
enough to the hat part of the acorn. Then for the head part of
the acorn, I’m using a bead. After a little paint to make it appear
luminous, it’s time to make a Korok. For that, just a pinch of two-part Apoxie Sculpt. After letting the epoxy set up for about five
minutes, I started sculpting my favorite Korok. Which, out of the whole family of weirdos, is this
little helpless squirt with the tree star face. And after the requisite tree bark Zebra stripes,
it was time to finish the face with foliage. If you have fake house plants,
just clip a leaf off the back side where you can’t see it.
No one’s gonna know. I probably could have just used some
green paper, but I like that this fake leaf already had some leaf veins.
But it wasn’t quite vascular enough, so I splotched on some light green,
followed by two asymmetrical eyeballs. Let’s get this little nugget ready for their
adventure with a couple backpack straps. Then we’ll complete the look with a cool
stick they picked up off the ground. And with that, they should be
ready to reach their friend. By the way, I’m far from the
first person to make a tiny Korok. So after this, if you’re hungry for a way cuter
Korok that you want to see hurled into orbit… Check out this video by Crossing
Crafts and watch them make… “The Korok Rocket… or uh, Korocket.”
All right buddy, time to go. Oops, we’re not ready just yet. We have much more to build,
starting with this big wheel. Oh great, they’re almost done! These already have the little
directional arrows on the treads. The first thing to do is
to remove all these bumps. But I feel a little bad throwing all of these
translucent pimples away, so into the bits box they go for some indeterminate purpose.
I’m hiding the inner spoke details with a gear charm and a disk of bulgogi
udon cardboard. Very important. Then for the axle, I’m using a bead, but
it’s about twice as long as it needs to be. These wheels already have nicely detailed treads.
But to get it give it a bit more depth, I’m shlicing out shome chevrons from thin craft foam.
And just so there’s no mistake as to which direction these arrows are pointing, I cut
out a few more arrows for labeling the sides. And now, we seal and texture.
Along with the usual mod podge and black paint base coat, I’m adding some
acrylic modeling paste for added texture. But you might be asking, how on Earth? Those
brush strokes are way too sloppy and visible! I’ll tell you, friend. My
family’s secret technique? In this house, we stipple that goop.
When it comes to painting, Zonai technology is definitely green.
But also blue. Though it is predominantly
green with a touch of blue… You can’t deny that it’s mostly
green with a bit of blue mixed in. Out of these seven paints, I only
need two to make Zonai sea foam green. I base coated it with this color, then added a little bit of white to pick
out certain areas for added contrast. Then dry-brushed it with the same color
to give it a slightly marbled appearance. A complimentary copper gold was used for all
the parts that are supposed to be copper gold. Followed by light green squiggly gibberish script.
And that’s the entire Zonai aesthetic. Next up on this world tour of Zonai technology,
we’re bouncing over to my personal favorite. The Spring.
For the main structure, I’m using these off-brand building block
toys that are legally distinct from LEGO. It’s a well known fact that destroying actual
LEGO is equivalent to burning legal tender. But you don’t have to worry
though, these aren’t actually LEGO. These are oh, legs.
On top of these LEGO-less legs, I’m attaching a couple dollar store brick toys .
Then a piece of craft foam and a button to complete the launchpad.
I built up the spring mechanism and undercarriage of this little
quadruped using a smattering of bits. Then started assembling what can only
be described as the spring’s face. On each of the spring’s four faces
is a gaping maw with teeth and lips. Then a set of bead-y eyes made from beads. Just like before, we’re smattering this
four headed beast with a Zonai color scheme of dark and light sea foam greens.
Oh, almost forgot to add the nose for the Legend of Smellda.
A little dry-brushing… Teeth whitening for those pearly whites…
Gold for the opulent details… Glowstick green for the eyes…
And we’re ready to launch. The Spring may be my favorite, but
I’m a big fan of this next one. I found a couple of these BMX
finger bikes at a thrift store. Honestly, I was never very good at these.
I was much more of a sk8ter boi. These wheel spokes will make up the fan face. Then for the fan base, this protective cap
from a shelf and this cord management loop. I’m making a circular cage from these pieces.
And since you’ll likely be able to see the interior, that means we’ll need fan blades.
Very hideous fan blades I might add, because I lacked the quality bits.
Then I slapped on a sloppy paint job now, since access will be impossible once the
front and back of the fan are glued together. Then it’s on to the usual Zonai color scheme.
Spoiler alert right now, but I’m not making every Zonai device in Tears of the Kingdom.
My choices were partially based on the Zonai tech I felt like making…
What junk I actually had available to me in my bits box…
And also my belief that nobody wants to watch an exciting tutorial
on Zonai battery and big battery. But fan though? That’s a classic. Sorry it doesn’t look exactly how
it does in the game, it kinda blows. All right, now we need to
steer this video back on track. The steering stick starts with a wood circle. Which becomes an octagon.
From my days as a sk8er boi, I have a bunch of these wrench tools
that you use to tighten your truck nuts. If we bend the handle just a bit,
it’ll work as the handle bars. Then using these handle bars from earlier…
We can give Link something to grip onto. Some craft foam to build up the foundation.
And some paperboard to clean up the bottom. Mmm, bulgogi…
Next, some air dry clay. This is for the foot pad, which needs
some Zonai feet debossed into it. Presumably, these foot prints would be the
same as the feet of our resident Zonai, Rauru. At first, it was a little difficult
to feet references for him. But if you need Rauru feet pics, make
sure to keep your safe search on. Otherwise you’re gonna have a bad time.
Or a rad time depending on what you’re into. Next up is the Zonai Cart, which is
strictly used as the skateboard of Hyrule. First some beads and bits to make the
wheels, complete with spitfire bearings. Then a sick deck carved from
a piece of dollar store foam. The edge needs some brick details so Link
has something for his skate shoes to catch during those kickflips and heelflips.
And you can’t forget the grip tape carved directly into the deck, otherwise
Link’s ollies will not be gnar gnar. After a coat of fresh paint, Link is
ready to start spreading the Legend of Zumies: No Fears of the Grindingdom
I promise that’s the last skate joke. Speaking of carts, there’s also the Homing Cart, which is a cute little dragon
tank that craves killing. We’ll start by making the tank
treads of this tiny murder roomba. Oh nice, tank treads. I’ll use these
to complete the tank treads. Neat. A bead connects these two
tiny treadmills together, then we’ll start carving the roomba body.
We’ll slice at this block until it’s a pleasant round octagon.
Then we’ll start building up the lizard face, starting with the eyes.
For that, we’ll need a trinket from an old friend. Thank you, my Queen.
As always, a tiny horseshoe charm has inserted itself into this build process.
While typically a curse on any given project, I had a small revelation this time.
Why limit ourselves to the form of a horseshoe, when they can be
coerced into an elegant almond eye. Then for the teeth…
I found a sheet of these tiny stud stickers. The rest of the dragon details are
built up from pieces of craft foam laid out into a mosaic of dragon scales.
But my favorite detail of the face are the cute fluttering eyelashes.
The face is almost complete, but it’s missing a couple nostrils, gingerly
melted into the face with a hot foam cutter. And lastly, we need to sneak up behind
this toothy toad and give them a tail. But we won’t need that blade.
Just the handle will do for now. That means it’s painting time.
I’m slopping the goop on extra thick for the first coat just to fill in
all the visible gaps between dragon scales. And if you can believe it, we’re applying the same painting scheme as seen in
all the previous Zonai devices. The only exception being that this
is the toothiest Zonai device, so it required a few extra coats of teeth
whitening to get the grimace smile just right. Then after the gold details, this little gilded
war machine is ready to roll up onto enemy lines. Perhaps one of the most puzzling Zonai devices
in Tears of the Kingdom is the Hydrant… And the mystery of how this infinite resource
isn’t somehow solving all of Hyrule’s water needs. This bead’s neck is a bit too thick
for the head we need to attach. I bought this weird cap bead specifically
for this hydrant and I honestly can’t fathom any other purpose for it.
Sales at the bead depot have skyrocketed since the release of this game.
Everyone’s trying to make a tiny bead hydrant. The water spout is an earring back,
speared with a safety pin trimmed to size. After assembling the spout and this
especially little fancy end cap, I went ahead with painting all this ornate
jewelry geometry in the typical Zonai fashion. Now that we’re properly wet and
hydrated, it’s time to dry off. This is the Flame Emitter.
And it started out as a very crude and featureless Barney head.
Then I added various beads, gears, and hair bands to make its eyes, lips, and teeth.
A little piece of styrene rod is shoved down its throat as the fire breathing dragon element.
And speaking of dragon elements, ancient Zonai Barney also needs a set of horns.
A horseshoe split in half provides the proper horn swoop.
Then it’s painted in non-Barney colors. Well actually, green is a complimentary
color to Barney’s purple hair. Or Barney’s cloth?
“Cloth is just little hairs!” For our final Zonai device… the Rocket. To the top of this bulbous bead, I’m adding
one of these metal studs as the rocket’s cone. And remember this very specific
bead I used two minutes ago. You were probably wondering what
happened to this little piece I cut off. And the exciting conclusion is:
I’m using it right here. Compelling stuff. For the rocket fins, I’m using these wooden craft
discs, chiseled into a slightly long quadrant. But in order to achieve lift, we
need some engines in that hole. For that, I’ll be using tiny seed
beads, which you can pick up by using your finger’s natural moisture.
I spent way too long trying to get these on straight, because seed beads are only level
above glitter in the crafting circles of hell. And so I did it four times.
These final pieces of Zonai tech also get the same color treatment
as per the Zonai brand guide. We may be out of the woods when it comes to Zonai
devices, but now we’re going INTO the woods. Throughout the game, you’ll find
these caches of wood building materials left by Hudson Construction.
And as a fellow ‘Son, we must do our President proud and build some good wood.
But we’re going to need a lot of wood planks. I’m sure there’s a way to infuse some
efficiencies into our construction. Since these boards just sit uncovered out
in the weather, they need some weathering. And every Son knows that the
Hudson Construction way is two joists on one side to support these planks.
But I’m not sure what’s on the other side… I think it’s blank?
I’ll just add a few of these tack nails for extra detailing.
The boards are done, but we need to stain this wood so it looks like wood.
Using Mineru Spirits mixed with a few different shades of brown oil paint…
I’m bouncing back and forth between each color to give it a more varied natural appearance.
Pretty sure we can call this one “Son and Done”... But let’s consult the game just to be safe.
Uh oh, there are support joists on both sides of these planks.
Ehh, it’s not a big deal. When it comes to these minor details…
“It doesn’t matter!” “It matters a great deal!”
You’re absolutely right, Mr. President. Joists on both sides, it is.
It was a novice mistake not to double the supports.
The last thing I would want is to structurally fail you and then I wouldn’t be your Son anymore.
Speaking of sons, maybe it’s time I learn some lessons from the man that
practically invented support. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of blood
moon seems to stay Addison’s resolve to stay. First, we’ll need a worthy cause for support.
Personally, I can think of none other than forgoing the labor laws of Hyrule to hold a
billboard with a picture of your boss on it for 24 hours a day.
Actually, I’m not even sure if Hudson pays Addison.
Addison kinda strikes me as the guy you’d want as your first unflappable cult follower.
He’s just racking up some serious volunteer hours. But what could compel this
man to stand there all day? And what’s going on under those
bulbous mushroom hair-cuts? It’s just one of the many mysteries I expect to
see solved in a Zeltik video one of these days. Anyway, we’re painting a shirtless Hudson.
Great size. Look thick. Solid. Tight. We’re gonna partially cover up those
muscles with a red construction vest. But don’t worry.
It might be business in the front, but it’s bear hug in the back.
I finished up the billboard with the Hylian text, but it still needs some support.
Looks like I’ll need to disconnect the sign so that we can slide on a
tiny Addison wrapped around the pole. Using some armature wire, I’m sculpting
an Addision pretzeled around his sign. I’m keeping his grip pretty loose
though so I’ll be able to slide him back on once he’s covered in clay.
Before committing to the head and shirt details though, I’m gonna do a
quick bake on this worm-looking baby. As discussed, one of the most
pronounced details of Addison is his weirdly long head and mushroom haircut. Just like his favorite business daddy
Hudson, Addison also sports an open red vest. He also lugs around an oversized
backpack, presumably stuffed to the gills with rupees and riceballs to give to
anyone who can show him how to do his job. After painting up Addison’s clothes and
his ever so slightly purple shade of hair… He should be ready to demonstrate his rock solid
and unwavering support for President Hudson. You got this, Addison. Let’s see it. I don’t have a segue here, I just love this spikey ball.
It kinda looks like a Katamari, but dangerous. To make this big, spikey ball, I’m using
this dollar store Christmas bauble. For a rough iron appearance, it needs
to be heavily sanded and rasped. This won’t only help with the
painting and drybrushing later… But it will also give the plastic some tooth so
we can more easily glue on some metal spikes. To make this Christmas bauble
seam seem a bit more intentional, I’m patching it up with some strips
of craft foam and rhinestone rivets. But these spikes make it a bit hard to handle.
Oh. After a black base coat and a silver dry
brush, this big, beautiful danger ball is done. Another dangerous item in Tears
of the Kingdom is the minecart. We’ll start with the wheels…
Borrowed from this dollar store fire engine… Which I’ll link together on a toothpick axle.
Then I’ll link these axles together with a cardboard I-beam made off camera.
The rest of the minecart is dollar store foam board.
But the trickiest part was figuring out how to make the walls of the minecart bow outward.
I did this by slicing the foam at a gentle curve so that when I wrapped it around the
base, the larger radius of the outer curve compensated for the forced straight line
of the inner curve and it became good somehow. But the important thing is we
love a good changing radii. I gave the minecart an especially thick layer
of stippled goop to make it extra textured. Then dry-brushed it in a series
of progressively lighter grays to bring out the stone-like appearance.
Speaking of stone-like appearance, it appears we need some rolling
stones for our rolling katamaria. Now, no offense to the stones in this
build, but they’re just bulky filler. But I don’t want it to seem like
I’m taking them for granite… Because the craft will have
a boulder look with them. Look, at the end of the day, I just want the craft
to have many layers, so whatever I sed-i-ment. Now to turn these crude lumps into rocks.
For that we’ll need rocks. Vigorous shaking imbues the foam
with regular old lumpy rock texture. Hold on, there’s an extra rock in here.
Ohhh, a blessing! This goddess statue has shown me
that rocks are merely a mindset. Who am I to cast a stone at
a rock, plain as they may be. Inside every rock is a goddess statue waiting
to be liberated from its stone prison. So I’ve changed my mind: rocks rock.
And now I’m going to reverse-excalibur one of these rocks.
One more horse shoe. This will be the sword hilt, which I
added a few bits to to make the handle. Then using the knife blade
seen earlier in this video… I shaved it down a bit to make a
crude tarnished broadsword blade. Then, it was time to fuse.
Uh oh, I almost forgot the goddess statue.
So beautiful… Just like the other stones, the
goddess statue gets a black oil wash… Followed by a light gray dry brush.
But unlike those rolling stones, this one gathers moss.
The easiest way to sprout this cherub chia pet was to paint on the glue, then
dip it straight into the pot of green flocking. The goddess statue was going to be the last rock, but I think I can find it
in my heart for one more. At the heart of every Stone Talus is
a heart speckled with aquarium gravel. My personal favorite is the
Luminous Stone Talus Heart, because it looks like a pendant that a turquoise
obsessed grandma would pick up at a flea market. Time for a quick inventory.
This is enough to round out a Katamari, but it’ll be lonely without a star to do the rolling.
Just like Addison, I’m using me tal armature wire to block out Link’s pose.
He’ll be using Ultrahand, which means I need to give up my right arm.
Time to flesh out these bones. I don’t consider myself a sculptor, but I wanted
to do right by the peak design of Link’s body. Though in the end, I think I spent way too much
time finessing the abs and popping the pecs. Especially because all of these details will
mostly be obscured under ancient Zonai garb. There’s a lot of reference images
out there for Link without clothes… But much like Rauru’s feet, your journey may
vary depending on your safe search settings. “Computer, load up Nude Link” Link’s right hand is an Ultrahand
made from a bunch of thin clay strips. I think this Link looks less twink
and more twunk, so we’ll dub him Lunk. Now before this gets rated T
for Teen, he needs some clothes. I rolled out a gossamer sheet of clay and cut
out several small rectangles to make his skirt, toga, and shoulder drape.
Through poking and prodding, I folded the fabric to make it appear
as if it was billowing in the wind. Whoa, good catch.
All of these wafer thin strips, straps, and belts were at constant risk of tearing, so wherever they
landed, that’s pretty much where I stuck them. And finally, Link’s head.
His head is a pill-shaped tube. Which is wrapped in a sheath of clay
with a rectangular window cut out of the center for his face to peek through.
On the top of Link’s head is his antenna. And in the middle of his face,
his simple triangular nose. We’ll finish up his other face details, then pad out the antenna for a
stronger wifi signal to space daddy. Okay, I lied.
This isn’t exactly Link And it isn’t exactly the
Prince from Katamari either. But it is a fusion of all the traits they share.
Both of these silent protagonists are really good at listening to a King’s voice from the heavens
tell them what to do in order to make everyone in their respective worlds really happy.
So roll on, Prince Link. We’ll soon be ready to roll up our
Katamari, but how big will it be? About one Christmas bowl’s worth.
A Katamari of this size needs a base about the size.
Through the center of this foam, I’m using a hot foam cutter to melt the
foam and carve out a trail of destruction… …and oh no that’s a lot of smoke.
I need go outside before I get lung cancer. To make the surface more earthy, I
have some left over gray mod podge goop that’s still slightly moist.
Let’s reawaken it with some plaster, old paint water, mod podge, and brown
paint to make a ground texture paste. But before letting this dry, it needs
a layer of dirt dug up from the depths. Thankfully, I only need to skim off
a couple spoonfuls from the surface. No need to delve down too greedily and too deep and awaken something.
“Go back to the shadow!” The center of this base will remain a rustic
dirt road running through the center of Hyrule… Whilst the sides of the trail will be framed
by a field of grass creeping in on either side. Using a static grass applicator, I’m
spreading out a generous layer of PVA glue… Then letting static electricity do its thing to
get the tiny blades of grass to stand straight up. Make sure to save that unstuck grass for later.
Lawn of pure grass make me sick. So I’m sprinkling in some moss
and weeds for biodiversity. Then after cleaning up the edge with black paint,
we can finally begin to consider thinking about planning on actualizing a rollied up Katamari.
There’s a couple ways to go about doing this. One is normal hot glue sticks.
The other is green Zonai glue sticks. We’ll test it on these three Zonai devices
to make what every Ultrahander worth their power cells is very familiar with.
Great news! It’s time to assemble this big bowl of Zonai breakfast cereal into a Katamari.
But while the green Zonai glue begins to flow… Check out this flow of some great people on
Patreon that help make these videos possible. And here’s our beautiful Katamari. “Wow, how marvelous.” But do you know what’s even more marvelous? All of this Zelda-related art created by my Patrons. Occasionally, on the Studson Patreon (link in description)...
we’ll hold various art challenges and showcases. This video’s theme was open to any art related to the
Legend of Zelda across any sort of creative medium. Some of these art submissions have accompanying videos, which I’ve included in the description. Check them out! Psst… if you’re interested in sharing your
Zelda art, here’s a secret heads-up... ...there might be another opportunity on another
Zelda-related video in the very near future. So if you’ve noticed the severely lacking
presence of The Wand of Gamelon art… ...and you desperately need to fill that hole… You can Join up on Patreon to learn how you
can submit your art for future videos. “...as long as you have enough rubies [rupees].” Thanks for all your art submissions, everyone! And now it’s time to roll out our beautiful Katamari
and roll the beauty shots.
