Thursday, October 28, 2010

Fabul, Gobulle, F'lhaminn........

Fabul is a place in a game....well its more like a dimension...These were done for a side project. The paper was made in photoshop and I call it dirty paper. It was made to look old timey and dirty as if it was in a journal or book carried around by a adventurer for a long time. Was thinking of adding in some tears but I felt that was to much as its not supposed to be anciant....just not in great condition.

Upgraded to CS5 photoshop and needed something fun to do to play around in it...dirty paper

Gobulle

Gobulle

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F'lhaminn

F'lhaminn

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Transformers G1 Represent!

I had more photos in this set, but they turned out looking quite bad once I put them in my flickr. I couldn't tell if it was the monitor at work I was looking at them on or if I had a bad angle on my laptop when I was editing that messed up the look of them. Either way I left a few of the bad ones in to look at them on another computer later, they are the first few. I had to much red in them and it really messed up my editing process. I should have picked a better backdrop....or any backdrop really. But here is my latest set, more may come later once I figure out a better place to take them.

Dinobots are old school gangsta!

I have always loved transformers, and G1 or Generation 1 has always been my favorite line of there toys and comics. Basically its the style of which they are made and done int. As the years went by they made new series that had the same people but the would redo the entire look of them. G1 is the 80's classic look and the best looking one in my opinion.

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Toys R us have been releasing remakes of the older 80's toys in a classic series for awhile now. Most of the good ones are already long since done and gone but you can occasionally find one on a shelf if you look hard enough. Wal-mart and I believe target also get 1 or 2 releases a year. There not vey often and there very rare.

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This one is Perceptor, transforms into a microscope and then a crappy looking tank. he has no real movement as his legs have no joints but simply swing out to the side. His feet don't move either but simply tuck under him. It would be a crapy toy in this day and age but because of what it is and when it was first put out its a "Classic" Honestly I love the damn thing. Its got horrid colors and the decals are so lame looking. Its not something you see anymore, its the first one I have found from the remake series.

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This is Grimlock, leader of the dino bots. When I was a kid he was my hands down favorite and still comes in pretty close to it now. I saw this a few days ago while shopping for my nephews birthday and just froze up. They had 1 and I had no clue they even put it out, a masterpiece Grimlock. Its pretty big to, I had to have it....but it was pretty costly. They double the price for the remakes, because they can. It may also be because there is alot of metal and higher quality parts but I doubt it. I carried this thing around cradling it in my arms trying to convince myself not to buy it.

Obviously I ended up with it.

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TANK MODE!

Yeah look out for that one.....lol he was a nobody in the show and the books from what I remember. I had a big battle between him and Grimmy up there. It didn't go well for him.

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The microscope mode was actually pretty neat looking I thought, but they didn't make it functional. Seems it wouldn't have been hard to make it magnify atleast a litte. You can already look down the scope and see the other side, but it doesn't enlarge it any. Missed opertunity there guys

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Posing it up, grimlock has a laser sword and gun. Neat 80's features on this toy....they kind of sorta light up....abit. And his eyes change from red to blue if you want. He also closes his dino mouth and can turn his head if you push his tail back and forth. You just don't get features like that anymore.

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Honestly though I still think this is one of the best looking transformers even from the new line ups I have seen and the Bay movies. And by far my new favorite in my collection, gotta keep a eye out for more classics though.



Like this one, Soundwave G1 re-release from the San diego Comic Con. It retails for anywhere from 90 to 130 dollars and I would do many unthinkable things to get one of these. Its crazy that they put him out again with all the tapes



I hate you San Diego

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Sally, a gift of undying love

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This was basically where I started my last project at, it took quite a few hours to complete but it was fun to be doing something like that again. My wifes birthday is coming up and I have been struggling to find her something other then what I have already and she expressed interest in something "Creative"

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We went to a art show this weekend and it made both of us want to do something more artsy. I managed to find a extra canvas laying around and my wife bought some encaustic wax to play around with. I always loved The Nightmare Before Christmas and have painted it before so this was a easy choice to make

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As I said this was for my wife, I actually got the original picture from a childrens story book. The 13 days of christmas, my wife saw it and said she loved the hearts in the skull made of smoke. So I figured I could take that picture from the book and make something nice out of it.

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Its done in acrylic or however thats spelled and I used just the primary colors with black and white to tint. I did however add a special touch to it to make it better for my wife. She loves shiny things and I had some glitter pigmentless paint. It shows up in the last 2 pictures but it makes the border shine and sparkle and she loved it.

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Her birthday is on the 10th, however painting something takes a lot of time and its hard to hide so she already knows about it and has seen it. She actually watched me paint a good deal of it over the day and was very supportive of the whole process.

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Here it is finished, the wife is happy and we both had a fun vacation. This was just a nice fun way to cap it off before I have to go back to work tomorow. The white lines on it are chalk marks and will rub off once it has finished drying.

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Thanks for looking, next update should be back to normal photos. This was a nice change of pace for me. When we get it hung up somewhere maybe I can get some better shots. The light was making the colors look odd and you can see the reflection in many shots. But I didn't want to move it until it was finished.