Thursday, August 06, 2009

Savage Dragon





Among all heroes published by Image comic book, Savage Dragon is a bit popular after Spawn. I didn't know 'bout his origin or where he came from.. but that's not so important. Because I've heard he's a police in 'Back in Blue', I try to made a standbase for him.  A bit ruin building corner will be suitable for him with loaded armaments.. and at last you may see in pictures what I wondered with savage term in Savage Dragon.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Heroes in Wayang Kulit





Wayang kulit (leather puppet) is the most popular traditional performance in a lot of area in javanese, especially in the center area (Jawa Tengah). For a lot of cultural ceremony, such as birth, circumcision, marriage, and harvest wayang kulit is popular performance to hold. A lot of people will come to see it and many seller will arrive to, especially food seller.. so perhaps it similar with social gathering in antropological term. Wayang kulit consist of a screen as microcosmos called kelir which reflect macrocosmos as real life; blencong as traditional lighting above kelir; a set of leather puppets in left and right side of kelir which is left side represent antagonist role or evil side and right side represent of protagonist role or good side; dalang as story teller; and a set of gamelan with its players as traditional music accompany the leather puppet performance. Audience will watch wayang kulit not from the front which can see 3D leather puppets, but from the back which only see the shadow of puppets on screen. It means that wayang kulit is symbolize many things happened in the real life.

Wayang kulit commonly watched by ordinary people but this time i'd like to mix ordinary people and superheroes. In pictures you may see the kelir, a set of puppets, and slow but sure the audience came.. start with Mr. Fantastic as dalang, Human Torch as blencong above and Spider-Man and Cyclops as acapella gamelan players. One by one another superheroes come, which is Electro, E.T., and DareDevil, then a bit later.. The Thing, Hulk, WarMachine, and SavageDragon.

"Surem-surem tiwangkara kingking lir manguswa kang layon... hoooooo..."

Monday, July 06, 2009

Enter Naruto




Among figures I've collected there's 25 figures from Naruto Animation ready to play. In Naruto's film we know that ninja live in harmony with nature. Everything in Konoha village is rich with natural color. So I'm think about it for a while... and first project i made may seen in pictures.

Wait for next project in patience, brooo...

Rooftop Gathering





At the middle of the night there's a bat beam at the top of Gotham. Commisioner Gordon waiting in police headquartes rooftop with anxious. Not for long the dark knight comes and whisper from the shadow of the building...

Those scene inspired me to make a part of building as a stand for the bat and Commisioner Gordon. With styrofoam I design a corner of rooftop building and as usual covered styrofoam texture with white-cement three times. After it dry my next step is install wires connected small switch on rooftop, small calculator lithium battery inside of building, and two colors LED as antenna indicator at the top of chimney... A bit difficult to work with soldering iron on a tiny thing such as small switch and thin wires, but.. it's done. Then i put window frames made from ice cream sticks and small piece of plastic I tear from my student's paper-cover for window glasses. For coloring step I use darker color to express situation at midnight and... voilaaaaa.

After collect information from Commisioner Gordon the bat has a lot to do... and it will make this time to be a loooooooong night...

Sunday, July 05, 2009

All rise...




After hard negotiation between evil-side and good-side figures finally they agree to unit in special occasion for being captured by my camera.. with not quite good lighting, huh...

Ladies and gentleman... now I present to you all figures in their specific gesture and poses... 

Tadaaaaaa...

Electro Chimney-Stand





Working only for good-side-figure sometime make me bored.. so this time i make one for evil-side-figure, Electro, one of Spider-Man villain who has ability to control electricity as a deadly weapon to crush his enemy. For him I made a simple chimney as Electro stand from styrofoam and covered it with white-cement. In coloring step i make a bricks textures for here and there as you may see it in pictures.

Stand on top of chimney Electro is waiting to shoot the wall-crawler with his electric-bolt...

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Cyclops Stand





After Beta Ray Bill and Punisher, i made a simple stand for Cyclops as you may see in pictures. I did it in the same steps with those 2 figures and for pillar i use big straw covered by white cement. You may see the result in pictures i've attached as follow... 

and beware of cyclops eye-beams.