"I am become death"

These space scenes are fun to create. One difficulty is knowing when to stop piddling with it - should I add more explosions and lasers, how about some fog, clean up the edges just a bit more, tweak the colors, etc. At some point, I just have to hit the save button and walk away so I can move on to other projects.

Mastermind Boreas was shot in a light tent. Various curve and photostyle layers were used for color grading and achieving the look and feel I wanted for him. The red body glow are from Inner/Outer Glow layer styles. I created his head lights from a white polygon by placing two Field Blur points on either end of it.

The planet is a Spherize distoration of a circular cut out of lava tiles. Various layers of shadows and glows were used to make it look like it has an atmosphere. The sun is a lens flare render. The nebula in the back is from a picture taken on a cloudy day. The stars are created from a couple of noise render layers.

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Jazz

Jazz was one of my favorites. Fortunately, he survived the great toy purge of the '86 movie, but he seems to have lost some prominence in the third and fourth seasons of the cartoon. For some reason, I always thought of him as Optimus Prime's second in command, and was disappointed that the mantle of leadership was passed onto Ultra Magnus and then Hot Rod instead.

Unlike my previous two portrait subjects, Jazz is definitely lacking in viable options. Generation Toys J4zz is more IDW-inspired; so is Reveal the Shield Jazz from so long ago. There is still no official Masterpiece version of this character. Is this a case of official car licenses getting in the way of toy releases?

I shot Maketoys Downbeat in my light tent, with a magenta gel on my key light to try and match the background I had chosen. Besides the usual time spent cleaning up blemishes, I also added some eye and headlight glows. Too bad the figure's hand doesn't retract to match the shot from the cartoon.

The background is a shot of some random summer evening when the setting sun was leaving visible light streaks in the sky, even to the naked eye.

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