My latest video is up on my YouTube channel. This one is all about how I created this image:
The video is here:
My latest video is up on my YouTube channel. This one is all about how I created this image:
The video is here:
Last weekend I came across this magical scene of light filtering through the trees on a misty morning in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
I have a fantastical mind so I immediately thought of Lord Of The Rings... It is likely not a surprise to know that almost everything, especially woodlands in the mountains, reminds me of Middle Earth.
This evening I decided to make my vision a reality. All it took was setting up an action figure in front of my camera with some lights.
Once I had this image, it was just a matter of spending some quality time in Photoshop. About an hour later I had turned my vision into reality.
So now you know a little bit more about how I see the world.Over the past couple of years I have been on a make-custom-dioramas-and-figures kick. It is a lot of fun, but it can take figuratively forever to make an image. Tonight I wanted to sit down and make an entire image from scratch, so I went back to my toy photography roots and set about making an image with just an action figure, some lights, a camera, and my imagination... Oh, and a steady supply of Photoshop magic.
Done. Well, sorta... need to finish the base, but thats a simple paint job, and likely not going to make it into any photos I make with this figure. The Spartan is done tho, and thats the important detail you should take from this post.
My next project comes in the form of a Spartan warrior. I for it 3D printed and primed before I went on vacation, then the project went on hold for 3 weeks. As a result this project feels like it is taking forever... however I'm back from the fun-in-the-sun and project-ing again.
The process for painting any model is to start with a good base layer of paint that covers everything - then the details and weathering can happen. I tend to do pretty simple painting techniques, and as a result the base layer takes a majority of the paint time for a model. Tonight I got that critical base layer finished.
Let's talk Gundam.
I must confess, other than a bunch of cool robots (which I think are more mechanical suits than autonomous beings), I am not entirely sure what Gundam is, aside from a fictional universe that comes from the incredibly creative minds of the Japanese.
I've never seen a Gundam themed show, movie, comic, novel, role playing game, or anything of the sort (Tho Google insists they exist, so they are out there... somewhere). However every single model shop I have ever been in has a large selection of Gundam models to choose from, so clearly somewhere out there is a very strong fandom for Gundam.
For me its just a bunch of cool robots. As such, and being a kid at heart, I have bought many sets over the past few years, and last week I decided to built one of them. Naturally it ended up in front of my camera. So I give you: The RX-87 model from the Gundam Universe... whatever that is.
(It just goes to show you don't have to be a major fan of a genre to appreciate the parts that interest you... go explore new things today.)
While we're at it, here is a behind the scenes shot, just to prove this was made in my studio and not yours.