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New Concept Art, An Upcoming KS, and Streaming?? BTS #73
🕑 Added 2020-07-01 21:28:08 +0000 UTCI've been sitting on a lot of information for a while, but it's time to release the flood gates! First of all, I've recently been working on a wood elf concept art for a future miniature. Here he is to jog your memory.
He's angry, he's banished from the "nice" part of the forest, and he's the lookout. Lookout for what? Well, there are a few banished wood elves in this narrative I'm concocting and I've been working on the witch in the group with my awesome concept artist who deals with my ever-changing mind, Tatiana Vetrovna.
After giving her some descriptions, this is what she came up with. I was personally a fan of #2 the most, so we went with that and started to add some more details:
We gave her a typical staff, a fully tree-branch arm (like some magic had gone awry), and some ritual daggers on her thigh for carving runes in her flesh and whatnot. But then, inspiration struck! While talking with Benjamin Kantor, I thought of a detail that would make this chick look like the evil witch she deserves to be, so I sent Tatiana a goofy picture of myself to illustrate my idea.
I felt like it would be awesome if she was sucking the life force out of a woodland creature for her own strength, gripping it by the skull. I didn't know what to do with my right arm, excuse my awkwardness. Tatiana then came up with this:
Now we're cooking with GAS! The red circles I added are other details I'd like to be floating upward to drive home the levitation look. We also ditched the staff to make it easier to produce, but also to clean up the silhouette of the character. It was feeling too cluttered. The last changes we're making are to give her a bit of a smile, and to turn the creature around so you can SEE IT SUFFERING \m/ After she's done, I have one last character to do :)
Now what's the deal with this Kickstarter? Well, I have this metal paint case that's been in my intro for several years now. It's a case that I bought from GW a long time ago that's no longer available so I figured I'd try my hand at producing it. At Adepticon 2019, a little over a year ago, I meant with Ryan who was a fan of my videos but also an incredibly capable brand manager. He knows where to go and who to talk to get things done. For my birthday this past January, Jon got the ball rolling for me with Ryan who mocked up the paint case in 3D.
This was an early mock up, whereas in reality the final thing will be determined by what type of case we can get. So far we've talked materials, colors, foam inserts, hinge types and more. I'm excited to bring a high quality paint brush case to you in the form of a Kickstarter I just don't know when it's going to be done and I'm not going to rush it. At the moment, Ryan is testing some samples and sending them my way for review. We've got big plans for various stretch goals and addons! I have my wife Amber looking into the dark arts of running a Kick Starter and I have a lot of friends who've got experience doing it that are helping me out to make sure I do it the right way.
What's this about streaming? Well, I recently picked up a piece of kit.
This is a Black Magic ATEM Mini Pro, and I bought it because I'm live streaming a friend's wedding at some point but ALSO, I'd like to start regularly streaming again and this will allow me to use multiple of my 4k cameras in a highly functional way. Part of including something in my schedule that takes time like streaming is making sure I can do it in an efficient way without taking a ton of time to set up and break down. This piece of kit is a step in the right direction to enabling that.
That's all for now. PAINT MORE MINIS!
Comments
This is so exciting! I have been looking for that metal case all over and have looked at some ETSY alternatives. But I never liked what they had to offer, it looked to... chinsy. YES!!!! My OG middle school army was the wood elves, which I sold to pay for my 'getting back into painting' - and a week later you released the 'dont sell your old stuff' video. HAH. I love the twist on the evil wood elves, you never really think of that side of the elves. Can not wait. After seeing how well Squidmar's kickstarter went Im excited for your success. I know many people will support you. In your trapped under plastic podcast when you were talking about how great it is and exciting that people 'in the field' can create something they think people want or need, this is exactly that idea with the paint brush box. LOVE IT. I will definitely be a backer.
Guillermo GΓ³mez ZarΓ‘
This is fantastic Scott-senpai!
Yeah, we'll be making that change to the woodland imp, I mentioned it in the post. In regards to the sub assembly, it depends on how the caster lines up all the cuts. I'd say it's fairly reasonable that arm will be one piece
We're still in production so.....maybe?!
I'm not gonna lie, the KS will likely not be soon. We were hoping for this Christmas season, but stuff moves slowly!
Joshua Crowther
Also, with the fairy in the hand. Will it be possible to sub assemble it? I feel like it would be difficult to get to it's face... Alternatively, I would like it to be facing away from her and towards the viewer. That way you could put a pleading or crying facial expression on it the viewer can actually see.
Joshua Crowther
Can Pringles cans fit inside the box, for reasons?
Iβm sooo excited for the brush case KS. Not a decent one out there. Hopefully soon? Liking the witch design.
First Emil and now you... Can't wait! For both the KS and the streaming bit
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Alex Smith
We can only be so erect Scott... π
Eric Taylor
Well I'll be taking both those minis and a paint case π
