DDR: X

DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION!

The second of a pair of metal ddr pads made for a friend's birthday/christmas present (though it took me a long time past both events to finally get them both done...). She's a big Megaman X fan, so I decided to make that the theme for the pad's design. The megabuster arrows were completely made from scratch in various paint programs, while the x and circle buttons (X and Zero) were official artwork with my own background and lettering. All the button images were printed at kinkos, then sandwiched between two thin sheets of plexiglass.

All the other surfaces on the dance pads are metal, bent and shaped by hand using various tools (nearly destroyed a rubber mallet on some of the sharper edges). The corner braces for the buttons were cut out of cover plates for electrical boxes, 4 corners per plate, then the rough edges ground down and rounded with an angle grinder.