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It's been a year since I last felt the excitement of making toys come to life. Last year, me and my brother Ryder joined the ToyClicks Photography Contest at the 6th Annual Toy Convention. Overall, it was a great experience for us to bond and have fun, as we both shared the passion for toy collecting and creating digital art. Though we lost the competition last year, the merging of our interests and the chance to squeeze our creative inclinations made the whole experience memorable and worthwhile. My brother and I have so much fun joining Toyclicks as it always turns out to be a great opportunity to learn new things from your fellow-competitors as well as we get to discover a couple of new tricks & artistic techniques that help expand your creative potential.Our entry for this year revolves around everyone's all-time favorite, super-detective ...Batman. Entitled "Why So Serious?"....the concept for this photograph is to depict the scene that comes after Sgt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman) hands Batman (Christian Bale) a playing card which was purportedly left behind by a psychotic criminal on th loose...leaving us fans in Über anticipation of the introduction of the Joker (Heath Ledger) in the sequel. Think of this scene as the moment in between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, wherein we catch a glimpse of our detective hero seriously contemplating the evidence in hand.The subject used is the 1:6 Scale Takara GenX Core: Batman Begins action figure which, in my opinion, is the best rendition I've ever seen of this iconic character. The suit is made of a rubber material that pretty much replicates the look in the movie and comes with an alternate Bruce Wyane head. With "The Dark Knight" movie being the theme of Toy Con this year...I'm hoping that this photo will find favor especially with the Bat-Mania going around.With my brother acting as Style Consultant...we then proceeded and constructed a gothic building diorama with a sculpted gargoyle design in reverence to the look and feel of the classic Jim Lee artwork. But despite the countless hours spent on the diorama, we still had the dilemma of finding the perfect location to photograph the figure since my initial planned condo venue (courtesy of my friends Jake & Cyl Pena) just did not pan out well due to some artistic problems we had with having the Makati buildings too far away to match the look that we wanted to achieve. Thank goodness to my brother's friend, we were able to scout the perfect location to shoot the figure with a nice Gotham-City-Like skyline view of Ayala Avenue from the roof-deck of the Oriental Gardens Condominium in Makati.Read More on my Multiply blog: http://bleau72.multiply.com/ph... http://bleau72.multiply.com/jo... http://bleau72.multiply.com/jo...

Channel: Howto & Style Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: bleau16

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