After hard working for ONE YEAR (more specifically 1 year + 1 month), I finally finished my giant piece of work: Babapapa Family.
If I know I would spend more than one year on a knitting work, I probably would not even start. I thought about giving up for several times. The biggest difficulty is you never know what is the best portion of your character before you started. Especially Babapapa had a soft round shape of body, after I filled the cotton, all the body curves were gone, became a round ball. It is hard to make all boys and girls the same size with the same body curves;it is hard to tell the best size of the eyes and the smile because 3D effective is just so different from your drawing on a paper; It is hard to design the gestures of every character, which have to reflect their personalities and can be presentable by knitting.
If you are too young, you might not hear about this cartoon. Babapapa is a French animation that was very popular during early 1990's. Babapapa family members have a special ability: they can change to anything they want like transformers. This cartoon talks about the life of Babapapa and his family, describes how they overcome difficulties to build their home and how they help people and animals. My mom bought me this cartoon book translated in Chinese when I was a child. I can not remember how many times I read it. It is a animation that accompanied me to grow, which is also the reason I made this knitting work.
Below is each character in details:
--Babapapa & Babamama
The story started with Babapapa born from the earth just like a seed. He helped a lot of people with his transformation ability.
Babapapa went for a long trip to looking for other kind of "Babapapa". He went to British, America, India, Africa even outer space, finally found Babamama. They fell in love and have 7 kids represents rainbow.
----Bababravo
Red Bababravo is good at all kinds of sports.He is holding a dumbbell.
----Babalib
----Bababelle
Mimic Babapapa Logo
If you are too young, you might not hear about this cartoon. Babapapa is a French animation that was very popular during early 1990's. Babapapa family members have a special ability: they can change to anything they want like transformers. This cartoon talks about the life of Babapapa and his family, describes how they overcome difficulties to build their home and how they help people and animals. My mom bought me this cartoon book translated in Chinese when I was a child. I can not remember how many times I read it. It is a animation that accompanied me to grow, which is also the reason I made this knitting work.
Before adding faces,like a rainbow
Babapapa and Babamama
Below is each character in details:
--Babapapa & Babamama
The story started with Babapapa born from the earth just like a seed. He helped a lot of people with his transformation ability.
Babapapa went for a long trip to looking for other kind of "Babapapa". He went to British, America, India, Africa even outer space, finally found Babamama. They fell in love and have 7 kids represents rainbow.
----Bababravo
Red Bababravo is good at all kinds of sports.He is holding a dumbbell.
----Babalib
Orange Babalib is a hard working girl. She likes reading and studying.
----Babazoo
Yellow Babazoo is a kind-hearted boy，and likes make friend with animals. I thought about which animal to make for long time. Chose pig because it can stand on the ground and the color matches yellow very well.
Green Babalala loves music.I made her playing flute.
----Bababarbright
Blue Bababarbright is a little scientist. he is interested in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. He is holding a telescope on his hands.
----Bababelle
Purple Bababelle is a beautiful girl with long eye lashes. She loves dressing up, so she takes a mirror along with her all the time.
----Bababeau
Black Babaeau is an artist. Different from other children, he has fluffy hair covered his body. He likes drawing.
Celebrate 3 years old birthday of this blog. Say good bye to Babapapa and hopefully I will have more time to create interesting things next year.
Wish everyone has a beautiful family like Babapapa
