I’ve wanted to try Spoonflower to print fabric for ages but couldn’t come up with anything that I thought would look good. A lot of the time hand stitching the detail or changing fabric creates a much better result that printing onto the fabric does. But after completing the Baldesion Arsenal in FFXIV and getting the mount, I realised a squishy Ozma is a prime candidate for printing given the bright colours and intricate patterns.
The textures ripped from the original FF9 disk were so low res they were useless and I thought I’d need to recreate them completely from scratch.
![](https://www.owlsteaparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ozma_original_textures.jpg)
Looking into the remastered version of FFIX on steam, the textures were just either AI up-scaled or heavily filtered to make them appear splodgy/water-coloured. Better, but not good enough.
![](https://www.owlsteaparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ozma_hi_res.jpg)
In the end I found the original artwork for Ozma, seen in some of the Final Fantasy artbooks, had been used in FFXIV for the mount (the colours are heavily obscured on the boss/mount but they’re there). I still had to warp the image, manually sharpen lines and add bleed but the total work was far less than starting from scratch.
![](https://www.owlsteaparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ozma_plush-1-1024x720.jpg)
The printing is so bright, it looks excellent in person.