A lightly tweaked octopus

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Since joining, I’ve been all talk. Until today. Here’s my newly finished octopus. It contains a couple of mistakes, which I won’t point out, and some deliberate changes, which are:

  • Eyebrow shape based on a cone instead of a cylinder
  • A more slot-like pupil shape
  • Eyes attached by poppers so that I can swivel them to horizontal (because apparently that’s a thing that cephalopods’ eyes do)
  • Back-of-head bulge
  • A couple of poppers near the end of each tentacle
  • Narrower ‘webbing/skirt’ wedges between tentacles
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I like the tweaks you did! (Not that I don’t like the original.)

I know octopuses aren’t furry in real life, and yet it looks quite realistic to me… Well done!

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This is amazing!
I would love to see more of your fantastic octopus. Can you show the ends of the tentacles please?

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Here’s a view of the tentacle ends. (The octopus currently resides at my workplace.)

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I finally came back to this, and I think your choice of closures is perfection!
I hope your octopus feels comfortable at your office. It seems he can camouflage on the floor whenever he wants to be invisible.
Haha
:octopus:

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