Well, I am a customizer of hasboro's My Little Ponys (meaning i repaint/rehair/redesign them). This pretty little girl I just finished on Tuesday, for a concert I'm attending on Friday. Her design was inspired by Los Lonely Boy's song "Velvet Sky".
First I took a series of 360 shots of her. This shot best described her display side (from now on DS) and allows you to see the gradation down across her body, and clearly see the blue highlights in her tail. It however, does not show off the blue highlights in her mane as clearaly. Dude to the distance (this being a long range shot) you cannot see the pale yellow of her iris. The flash was on for this shot, and due to the distance it didn't white out any of her foam, though it did highlight the jewels somewhat.
In this second shot, I was trying to get a detailed shot of her head so you could better see the detail in her eyes. However, the flas whited that out to some degree, and magnified the painting mistake the jewels were suposed to be covering up. From this close up, slightly elevated angle I think you get a nice perception of her back/body, and you can see the connecting coloring in her body gradient to the layers of feathers on her wings. you can also better see the blue highlights in her mane, even though this is again her DS where the mane doesn't fall.
I choose these two shots to display because even though I like both of them, I fully understand the faults with the second one (ie. the flash white out, the room background). This was a way to show that there's a correct and a not-so-correct way to doing this.
And for anyone interested, she took 2 days to paint/rehair/curl hair. Was orignally a 25th anniversary Starshine.
3 comments:
Hi Kat,
Does your camera have a switch where you can take the flash off? I know some cameras won't allow you to. The shots that you chose also reflect the illusion of size. The image is small in one and in the other only portions of it are shown - it is interesting in regard to the background comment - the background also gives the illusion of size as there are other objects in relation to the image that the viewer instinctively 'sizes it up' by. This might be something fun to play around with later on to make things look larger than they are or smaller. :)
Rach
Wow, I didn't know that restyling My Little Pony dolls was a pastime, but it reminds me of old comic magazine where people would take a He-Man toy and make it into Hellboy or something.
Interesting how the flash could bring out something you though you hid, eh? The shining jewel effect is pretty cool though.
Kat:
It's My Little Pony! Isn't it great how much change there is from one shot to the other? There's personality that the flash gave the pony on the second shot - I love it!
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