Summer Projects

Ever since April, when Captain America 2 came out, my brother and I have been busy working on more and more miniature superheroes from the many summer movies of the year. I haven't gotten a chance to post pictures of the new characters we've been working on until now even though many of them were finished a while ago. So first up is Spiderman, whose new movie"The Amazing Spiderman 2" came out at the beginning of May this summer. However, if you are a common visitor to this blog and pay close attention to detail (congrats to the very few people who fit this description!), you may have noticed that there is a different spiderman minifigure in various other photos I have posted. This is because Spiderman is one of the characters that we Wrightworkers have made the most versions of over the years and are constantly trying to improve. Anyway, the Spiderman featured in these pictures is based on his appearance in the new movie (his costume and the web swinging visuals were my favorite aspects of the movie) and I was very pleased with the quality this figure turned out to have. So for these photos I decided to get creative and used some cutouts of city building photographs that I had. I was going for a realistic look with these and I think I achieved what I was going for, but hey, I'm no expert photographer. Enough rambling though, just look at the pictures!

The next character we made was Electro, who is the villain in the new Spiderman movie. I learned that light blue is not an easy color to photograph so it's a bit hard to see his face. I touched it up in photoshop which improved it slightly.

the next on is an image based on a movie poster featuring spiderman and electro. Obviously it's a bit dark but it does look similar to the official image which I have put on the right for comparison.

The next superhero movie of the summer was "Xmen Days of Future Past". Though I would like to make several more characters from that movie, the only one we have made so far is Magneto, who is a villain in the film. There he is in this photo below.

The next character is another Xmen villain, named Juggernaut. Though he is not in the new movie, i still wanted to make the character, so I based him off of a combination of appearances in videogames and the comic books. I should have included a photo of him next to another character so you could see that he is larger than all the other characters we have made. Because of his larger size, I made him out of a softer foam that was all dark blue, so I also had to paint all of the color on him. The character is known for his large, dome shaped helmet which I chose to make out of paper. It didn't turn out as round as I wanted it to be but i suppose I can always improve it later on If I think of a better method to use.

The last character I have pictures of is one that I actually started working on a year ago when the movie Man Of Steel came out, but he ended up becoming a delayed project that I was reluctant to work on due to his great detail. The character is General Zod, who faced off against Superman as the movie's powerful antagonist. he may have taken a long time for me to make, but that time paid off because I would dare say he is one of the best foam minifigures I have ever made due to his quality and intense detail. Unfortunately I only have one photo as of now but I will undoubtably be doing more photoshoots with him in the near future.

Thats all I have for now, but our current projects are characters from "Guardians of the Galaxy" which is the newest Marvel movie of the year and comes out this Friday, so I will try to post pictures of them very soon!