Welcome!


Intro:

I'm also on hisstank, Hyporea over there, probably just one or two posts too ;-)

In terms of graphics and such, I came to JoeDios after years of rendering scenes in 3D art programs. Most of my stuff can be found at Renderosity.com, under the same username. However, once I joined JD, I haven't uploaded anything to RD in a while :-) More fun taking Joe pics.


Sets:

For my sets, I build them. Like you I also don't have easy access to the great outdoors for dio shots. I can do some, the house around here has a few small spots and if I angle the camera just right, you won't see the bricks of the house, or the a/c or the car, or the driveway, or the fences.

So I use floral foam for most of my set's building material. Somewhat recently I have settled on a dio story, which will require major set building, so I've been doing a lot of that in the mornings before heading to work. That's part of the challenge, though. Because what will have to be done, to do the scenes I have in my mind, will require a lot of CGI. And this is where I am having to learn Photoshop more deeply than I have had to use it before.

If you can do a combination of a physical set, then blue/green screen a background or more with PS, then probably that would be the best bet, and it's what I'll have to do too.


Lighting:

For lighting, thus far I just use three types: a halogen lamp with a dimmer, LED flashlight (sometimes two of them) and a 650 WATT Tungsten lamp that puts out an amazing amount of heat and white light in seconds--you can actually see dust burning in 1 second of use.


Storage:

For storage, I just have stackable plastic boxes, and stack them as high as I can. I don't have space here for keeping the Joes, so I go up.. hanging from the ceiling the aircraft, shelves all around the Joe room, along with my Microman collection, and the diorama set is assembled on 16"x16" ceramic floor tile at the end of a computer desk that is also home to 7 computers and two laptops.

--Death

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