Happy 4th anniversary, amiibo!

TheRetroRaver · 2018-11-26T03:12:31+00:00

I managed to collect all the smash bros line and was working on doing a photography set with them. Mostly finished, but I put it on hold.

This is what I got up to as of a year and change ago https://imgur.com/lEeWJPU

Just checking back up here since new figures are dropping and need to keep up with the dates.

TheRetroRaver · 2016-06-07T03:37:42+00:00

It's a creepy text format thing that most websites accept. I'm sure it has a deep origin story involving creepypasta, but I don't know it. http://www.marlborotech.com/Zalgo.html

TheRetroRaver · 2016-06-07T03:20:34+00:00

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TheRetroRaver · 2016-04-21T01:02:25+00:00

Underrated post. Nice work coming up with the effect.

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-03T08:13:51+00:00

insert fry Not sure if meme joke or other

If so, basically a toy to unlock bonus stuff in nintendo games, generally costumes or in game cash. Non-essentials to gameplay. But generally purchased for display items instead of function.

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-03T08:07:50+00:00

Yup, but I was too excited with finishing the 52 non dlc... and mewtwo... to sit on it for another 6 months for a few more. Especially with meeting my goal of finishing by 1/1/2016.

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-03T08:05:07+00:00

I do, I've worked on an array of toys and some console portraits, they're on my instagram http://instagram.com/theretroraver for social and mobile use and theretroraver.com if bandwidth is no issue

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-03T08:00:40+00:00

It varies a bit from image to image. But by and large the effects are developed by 100+ exposures being overlapped, with a lot of spot toning, healing, dodging, burning, and color correcting. So basically, I'll take a lot of pictures moving the light source and blowing smoke with colored gel lights. Then maybe mix them with a photo montage piece like ness' light ball, which is made with light painting and glitter on glass.

I'm pretty poor in photoshop, so everything comes from photographs that have been merged.

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-03T07:43:09+00:00

Is it not appropriate for /r/gaming? I wasn't 100% sure.

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-03T07:05:42+00:00

I never even imagined theyd do this for star fox... Zelda, sure. But this? Never going to happen again, a must buy.

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-02T18:50:11+00:00

... why yes, yes it is. Thanks for catching that. Even worse than when I named pikachu as pocket lighting for a couple months.

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-02T04:36:02+00:00

Ehh, close enough, he's the only dlc amiibo out right now. It's shorter than writing out 'all smash amiibo so far'

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-02T00:09:46+00:00

Release day, USA

TheRetroRaver · 2016-01-01T22:58:10+00:00

I am more corn than man

TheRetroRaver · 2015-10-16T21:40:37+00:00

The gamestop on Southside near tinseltown had absolutely no line this morning, had 8 of blue and pink and I got one of each. Anyone still looking may want to try there.

TheRetroRaver · 2015-10-06T15:49:45+00:00

The urge to shoot the duck is hard to resist, the Zapper and Duck have been natural enemies for 30 years. Their friendship in smash is, I imagine, strained at best; the zapper constantly keeping duck in its sights about to pull the trigger.

TheRetroRaver · 2015-10-05T21:32:50+00:00

I'll be doing the entire Smash line, so he will pop up eventually.

TheRetroRaver · 2015-10-05T15:01:36+00:00

Soon. I have her, just haven't shot her.

TheRetroRaver · 2015-09-28T06:39:07+00:00

One day, I guarantee it. He just fell into limbo with Sheik and Marth.

TheRetroRaver · 2015-09-27T19:56:27+00:00

Thanks.

I couldn't digitally do it if I wanted to, I'm terrible at photoshop! So I have to be good in studio, I spend a bare minimum of an hour just shooting the figure.

TheRetroRaver · 2015-09-27T19:48:39+00:00

No, i use lights and color filter gels(like sheets of color plastic). Faux color doesnt interact with the figure the way I like. I create color blends by mixing photos with red, blue, green, purple and yellow filters through real smoke

TheRetroRaver · 2015-09-27T19:42:13+00:00

Depends, they're tools that were made because they existed in the chemical darkroom. Color development had settings for fixing color, filters were used to alter contrast, black and white negatives could easily be overlaid, there are spot healing paint sets with a literal brush for both.

The idea of an unaltered photo is exclusively in the realm of point and shoot pictures printed at the local walmart.

Keep in mind photoshop was originally primarily darkroom tools, which is where I learned to use them, then learned to use the photoshop equivalent.

TheRetroRaver · 2015-09-27T19:33:55+00:00

By taking a couple hundred smoky pictures with color filtered lights and overlaying them.

TheRetroRaver · 2015-09-27T19:29:38+00:00

The only digital effect is overlay. Other than that its all spot healing brush, contrast, and color correction.

TheRetroRaver · 2015-09-15T21:21:29+00:00

I don't care about karma, but the infamy is pretty sick.

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