Thunder Run

I took TF Dream Factory Tank Warrior to a local park and took shots of it on a large boulder. The sunlight and tree cover provided natural shadows across the figure and ground, something that would have been difficult for me to reproduce in a light tent and with Photoshop. I replaced the background of parked cars with a photo of clouds. The debris chunks and some of the foreground clouds and are drawn in with custom brushes. The explosions on the left and right are blended in from some photos I found online. I used Color Dodge layers to color grade the figure and the clouds.

One thing I took away from this excursion to the park - take a lot of shots. Half my photos were ruined by an unnoticed fly that had decided to rest on the turret.

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Starscream's Brigade

I wanted to try a technique I saw about blending feet into sand and dirt. It's such a small part of the picture, but it does help prevent the figures from looking like they are floating over the background.

I used Warbotron's set of Combaticons and iGear Star Burst. The background is a photo of one of those beaches along 17 Mile Drive in Monterey. All the fog is painted in with my custom cloud brush.

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