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MMMV Hunt #1

September 7, 2009

The first annual Minimate Multiverse Hunt contest was inspired by a similar contest from DST during the San Diego Comic Con 2007. Since the DST contest was limited to those attending SDCC, the MMMV version was started to let everyone get in on the fun. In fact, the 2009 MMMV Contest has just started so there's plenty of time to put your own entry together.

This post is mainly about the 2007 contest though. Read on for my entries.
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Showgirls Poster

September 3, 2009

The San Diego Comic Con in 2007 was a weird one for me. Instead of leisurely strolling the convention hall or ducking into random panels, I spent most of the first three days taking Minimate photos for DST's Scavenger Hunt contest. It took the lure of Gold and Silver Spider-Man Minimates to make me squander such valuable time.

DST released a couple of the Hunt Challenges before the convention started to allow contestants a bit more creativity. One was to create a Minimate movie poster for a movie beginning with the letter 'S'. My pervy entry is enclosed within.
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Jolly Roger

August 31, 2009

Here's a short post to exhibit a Minimate Jolly Roger request. You see, thar be all kinds of Minimateers out in the depths. Even the scurviest lot deserve a flag to sail under.

Yarrr.
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Ghostbusters Wallpaper

August 27, 2009

Ghostbusters has seen quite the revival lately. Of course it never disappeared, but the recent video game and news about the on-again, off-again sequel has made the property much more visible.

Minimate fans had been begging for Ghostbusters for a long time. For the most part I thought we'd never get official ones. Since my customizing skills couldn't do them justice, I decided to make a wallpaper instead.
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JP1000 & Friends #2

August 24, 2009

Shortly after the first illustrated JP1000 ep was 'published' I started working on the second. Using the lessons I learned from the first image, I think I came up with a pretty good looking second one.

Things are a bit simpler, there's not as much going on in the background. The big change was the addition of shading. It's not perfect by any stretch, but it's a learning process not a learning... uhm... jump to... perfectness.
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Karate Kid Wallpaper

August 6, 2009

One fact I cannot deny, I am a child of The Eighties. The hair, the music, the movies, the shoulderpads. If I could go back in time and live in that time I would, no questions asked. I'm sure that's just the nostalgia talking and I wouldn't really enjoy The Eighties the way that I did as a kid.

But to be a kid in The Eighties... It wasn't just the half-hour long toy commercials, it wasn't just the sugary breakfast cereals, it wasn't just the rise of Nintendo. There were movies. Movies I watched so many times I can still to this day recite large chunks of dialogue. That repitition burned images on my brain, as it turns out sometimes those images never really existed.
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JP1000 & Friends #1

August 3, 2009

Sorry that hiatus was longer than I expected but I always underestimate how much SDCC will take out of me. It was good though. Met some friends, didn't annoy Chuck too much (I hope), and bought a ton of new Minimates.

This post details the construction of the first illustrated episode that I did for the Minimate Headquarters web comic, JP1000 & Friends. It was a small departure from my usual Minimate graphics. Up to this point the Minimates were are featureless blanks. For this image I had to figure out how to recreate the full design.
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Off To Comic-Con

July 19, 2009

I'm going to be skipping updates for the next week or so because I'll be off to the San Diego Comic Con. Normal blog software would allow me to write a bunch of posts ahead of time and set the date for when they would be 'published'. Unfortunately I wrote this system myself and haven't quite implemented that feature yet. Since I'll only have limited Internet access at the show, I don't want to hack something together then have it break when I can't be around to fix it.

As a consolation I'm going to give you a sneak preview of my SDCC costume. I'm obviously too famous now and I have to go incognito. Sure, whatever.

Multiverse Wallpaper Contest

July 16, 2009

This was a time frame where there always seemed to be an interesting contest running at the Minimate Multiverse message board. As a result we come to the third consecutive contest post. The only restrictions on this contest were that it had to be Minimate related (naturally) and contain the Multiverse logo.

There was one thing about this contest that seemed helpful at the time, but ended up making things more difficult.
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