Not today, Galvatron!

I tried to keep it simple today. No painstaking cut-outs this time. The background is just a blue poster board. There was a lot of fiddling with the figures and trial and error to get the composition that I wanted though. FansToys Sovereign stood in for Galvatron. His angry face works so well for this kind of scene. DX9 Carry stood in for Hot Rod's arm. I could have used Masterpiece Hot Rod, but I didn't want to deal with the height disparity between the two figures. The trickiest part was dealing with the Matrix. At first I tried to suspend it from string, but then realized I'd have to clean it in Photoshop so I simply resorted to balancing it on Sovereign's chest. The glow effect is from Inner and Outer Layer Style effects along with a Lens Flare render.

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This is the end of the road, Galvatron!

DX9 Carry and Tyrant are great figures. They are fun, high quality, and very posable. However, I didn't want to test out how strong Carry is by having him lift Tyrant, who is quite a bit larger. MP-9 Rodimus Prime was also an option, but I wanted to useTyrant's counterpart.

I created the shot by compositing separate shots of each figure with layer masks. I could have made Galvatron's legs a little less stiff looking, but I had to get him to stand without falling over. Also when drawing the figures, they can do stuff like leave out Rodimus Prime's wings.

I also added a little grimace to Tyrant's face.

Since I don't have any similar materials to photograph, I just left the background alone. The only thing I had to do was use the Clone Stamp tool to erase where the drawn characters peaked through the toys.

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