Spandex Stories (marvel heroes)

blackpool wrote:I did two complete scifi comics with a friend that wrote the stories, first one got its first pages edited in a french comic magazine but it never went any further. We still kept on and finished the two first volumes of the story, for that project I drew and helped coloring 90 pages...
The only "pro" or real comic work I have done were some visuals for an old video game called "city of heroes" where I posted some fan art at first, I was later asked to create official visuals for their european websites, forums, newsletters...

That's awesome. I wanted to make comics myself. I was always good at art as a kid, after a brief military career and private investigation/security work, I even went to art school for illustration, but I found I was faster (though not much faster) at writing than I was at illustration (WAY too picky, and if it isn't exactly how I want it -- it isn't finished. Can't be a comic book artist at a snail's pace).

Love that Avengers/Defenders shot. And I really do want to pick up that Homecoming Spider-man. I think it's the best costume to date. Really cool on both the comic and the City of Heroes art! I had a friend who played hell out of that game. Now I really want to see some of your work!

So much freaking fun to look at. I bet it's even more fun shooting them. Great work bro.

AFM

I love the new photo too. I can tell Santa Claus came by, because "Iron Warrior" is sporting some new sneakers. Who is the lady on the right, next to Captain? I am drawing a blank or quite possibly never knew.

GubernatorFan wrote:I love the new photo too. I can tell Santa Claus came by, because "Iron Warrior" is sporting some new sneakers. Who is the lady on the right, next to Captain? I am drawing a blank or quite possibly never knew.

I think it's Jessica Jones.

actionfiguremovies2 wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:I love the new photo too. I can tell Santa Claus came by, because "Iron Warrior" is sporting some new sneakers. Who is the lady on the right, next to Captain? I am drawing a blank or quite possibly never knew.

I think it's Jessica Jones.

Yep. That's Ms. Jones.

Thanks guys, I knew I was woefully out of touch.

ReverendSpooky wrote:Love that Avengers/Defenders shot.  And I really do want to pick up that Homecoming Spider-man.  I think it's the best costume to date.  Really cool on both the comic and the City of Heroes art!  I had a friend who played hell out of that game.  Now I really want to see some of your work!

Thanks a lot bro! I don't want to push you but yeah that spidey is THE amazing spiderman, the deluxe version is not needed but damn what a fantastic figure! The only weakness is it's a very fragile figure, the suit is a piece of art so definitely not for intense posing, the ASM2 version was better for this sadly.

City of heroes was one very cool game back in the past, unlicensed so you could create whatever hero or villain you wanted, picking up everything from his look to his bio to his stats and powers, that was insanely fun... I drew many avatars for players as well as some banners for the official website, it was a very cool time!

actionfiguremovies2 wrote:So much freaking fun to look at. I bet it's even more fun shooting them. Great work bro.

AFM

Oh yes that was fun, I confess I love posing my figs, trying to capture some realistic move or pose, making dozens of adjustments lol... This one was a bit tricky tho, the one leg standing spidey and widow kept on falling over the rest of the gang it was a war to get this shot lmao

GubernatorFan wrote:I love the new photo too. I can tell Santa Claus came by, because "Iron Warrior" is sporting some new sneakers. Who is the lady on the right, next to Captain? I am drawing a blank or quite possibly never knew.

Hehe thanks a lot Gubernator! In fact the sneakers are old and the iron warrior is new lol, that figure is very cool for the price, soosootoys have some solid offers, a brand to follow before it changes name lol

A couple of new shots I did yesterday night, @Reverendspooky if you were not sold yet on that spidey, I am sorry in advance

I agree. SooSoo's Scarlet Speedster was great, too. And of course so is HT's Spiderman from your photos. According to Michael's review, they reused the same head sculpt in the newer version that just came out.

Great new shots of Spidey. The Homecoming figure really is cool.

Love that Spider-man Photo!

These are all incredible, I can only DREAM of making such good dioramas and photo manips!! Your figures all look great as well -- I especially like your Punisher! Do you mind me asking which Jon Bernthal head that is? (I am presuming it is a Hot Toys knock-off, but I can't place for sure which one.... ) I'm always uncertain about how certain headsculpts look 'in hand', but the one you have looks pretty good, so I can't help but be curious...

Oh man, torture! Yeah, those last couple shots are only making me want this figure more. Seriously, great photos! That comic cover is too perfect, and the dramatic lighting is fantastic.

Dude, I love those Spidey photos (and the rest, too.)

A Marvel comic never looked as good.

GubernatorFan wrote:I agree. SooSoo's Scarlet Speedster was great, too. And of course so is HT's Spiderman from your photos. According to Michael's review, they reused the same head sculpt in the newer version that just came out.

Indeed! I'm gonna follow that brand with attention, they recently released a Constantine figure that is really nice, and they just announced an Elektra based on the netflix daredevil version!

Stryker2011 wrote:Great new shots of Spidey. The Homecoming figure really is cool.

Hell yeah he is cool! The interchangeable eyes are my favorite part of this figure, it really gives him a lot of character, and the fact that they put both a peter headsculpt and loose mask is the best choice they ever made for a spidey figure! As a counterpart the suit is veeeery fragile, so I won't pose him as extreme as I used to with my amamzing spiderman 2, I thought I would resell him but in the end both have great qualities.

MerylAkiba wrote:Love that Spider-man Photo!

Thank you very much!!! Seeing your avatar you might prefer something like that (GF it is Jessica Jones again)

skywalkersaga wrote:These are all incredible, I can only DREAM of making such good dioramas and photo manips!! Your figures all look great as well --  I especially like your Punisher! Do you mind me asking which Jon Bernthal head that is? (I am presuming it is a Hot Toys knock-off, but I can't place for sure which one.... ) I'm always uncertain about how certain headsculpts look 'in hand', but the one you have looks pretty good, so I can't help but be curious...

Thanks a lot for the kind words! I'm not bad at photo manips for sure, but my dioramas are mostly "set ups", very simple one, basic cardboard or foam with a printed background on them... I shared most of my "indoor" backgrounds in another thread HERE

ReverendSpooky wrote:Oh man, torture!  Yeah, those last couple shots are only making me want this figure more.  Seriously, great photos!  That comic cover is too perfect, and the dramatic lighting is fantastic.  

You should definitely grab it, he is a real masterpiece, that said you should have better prices now that the "far from home "trailer is out it won't take long for hot toys to announce a new wave of figures, may be even a v2.0 of the very same suit as he seems to wear it again in some sequences of the coming movie.

dadrab wrote:Dude, I love those Spidey photos (and the rest, too.)
A Marvel comic never looked as good.

Thanks a lot! I have to confess if it looks so much as a good comic book cover it is indeed because I took one of my collection as an inspiration, my only original idea in this shot was to rework the shadow of peter parker to turn it into spiderman's head...

Here is the original cover

SOmething a little different I'm not sure I shared here yet, still it is about spandex and heroes, and it is 1/6th soooo....

SPOILER ALERT!!!

I love that pic. I’m pretty sure Thanos wouldn’t stand a chance against The Incredibles; The Avengers are pansies next to them!

So much fun to see new pic added and blackpool your filling a need my friend. Great work.

AFM

Ahhh ! You got him. A spidie with removable mask ! Can´t wait to see some pics of him with the other Heros. This is a slim Body, right ? Can You show him next to one of Your massive Characters, please ?

I´m A big Fan of Your Photos !

Thanks a lot guys! The incredibles are cheap disney store figures but the two ladies have decent articulation, removable boots and mask, not bad for 24$!

Mr incredible was a bit disapointing, the articulation is as awful as on 1980'S Ken dolls, I had to take off the legs entirely to replace them with some spare I had from our standard bodies, I sculpted the muscles over it to give it back the needed proportions, but that was a very lengthy and painful process... I still have to figure something out for his arms, at least the shoulders...

Ephiane wrote:Ahhh ! You got him. A spidie with removable mask ! Can´t wait to see some pics of him with the other Heros. This is a slim Body, right ? Can You show him next to one of Your massive Characters, please ?

I´m A big Fan of Your Photos !

@Eph he is indeed a bit smaller than others but not that much, way less than the ASM2 version which was really slim. This one is much more realistic because of the subtle muscle definition that hot toys managed fantastically well on this figure.

I will shoot some neutral pose pics for comparison as soon as I can, but he is nearly as tall as daredevil and others, the exception being this new infinity war captain, the guy is a beast, he actually stands as tall as an iron man armor lol (check the previous page for a group shot with cap and spidey )

Quick update as the "Endgame" hype is growing, I couldn't resist taking my avengers out of their boxes this week end.

More to come soon!

Those are fantastic! Nice light effect and posing.

Damn Blackpool, like I needed you getting me any more psyched for Endgame!!! These came out so awesome. Which Black Widow head is that btw? Looks great.

Those are gorgeous!

Those are some very impressive images -- you should market them to cinemas to print out as posters advertising the movie.

Stryker2011 wrote:Those are fantastic! Nice light effect and posing.

Thanks a lot mate!

ReverendSpooky wrote:Damn Blackpool, like I needed you getting me any more psyched for Endgame!!!  These came out so awesome.  Which Black Widow head is that btw?  Looks great.

Thanks Reverend! I hope you saw the endgame, it is so huuuuuuuuge, like a phenomenal conclusion of the greatest cinematic saga of all times!!!
The black widow head is a clone from the hot toys "civil war" version (I grabbed it at oneseixthkit)

skywalkersaga wrote:Those are gorgeous!

Thank you times!!!

GubernatorFan wrote:Those are some very impressive images -- you should market them to cinemas to print out as posters advertising the movie.

Thanks a lot bro! In fact I just realized the logo I used for these comes from infinity war, they would have been perfect for last year lmao

Small update, I don't want to spoil the endgame so I won't shoot my heroes for a lil while, I think I first need a second watch lol

Cool shot. And thanks for no spoilers.

It is a cool shot. As for the no-spoilers spoiler, I appreciate it.

Quick update, I took some time to play a bit with my Kingpin, that figure is so huge they did a very good job!