Nervous Rex

You nailed it, perfect statement! I really enjoyed it. It was fun... Growing up we went to movies to be entertained, and i was very entertained. I loved the supporting cast of characters. I hope a second one brings more of our old faves. It was neat how they were "named" Skeletor was great and maybe stole the show!

Looks real to me. I've seen a handful of them up close and had one at one point. In the beginning i do feel a lot of people were just opening them. the way you got them was to pull them out of a bag of blank white mates at various conventions... I don't remember a different way they were officially released. So, a lot of them were just picked by people who may not have even known what minimates were, opened it and then maybe later looked on ebay and decided to sell. its crazy to think how many were probably just tossed in the trash by unknowing owners or parents or whoever, just thinking it was some dopey gold lego looking spiderman knockoff

Those are great! funny about Flint... I know the frustrations ... i was trying to recreate old movie posters into a lego movie style, and it would sometimes take 15-20 attempts until i ran out of free credits, ran out of patience or got something close enough. Never fully satisfied. it crazy how you can specifically ask for things to not be changed or only change one specific thing and now that one thing looks crazy, but the character now had a beard or something crazy ...

These are great, I'd like to see some more, especially Super Powers and Secret Wars. The one thing i do enjoy about the A.I. stuff is being able to see what all my wishlist characters would look like, or could look like. The stuff that will 99.9% never be made, so its cool to be able to see.

These are so good... 2 inches old is cracking me up

yeah man, i agree... it has actually lit a spark in me again as far as minimates are concerned.

cool right... i can only take credit for asking gemini to make me a minimates styled block figure based on a photo of the old toy set i loaded

Mork from Ork Had the toy as a kid, loved the show... would be a neat little set, especially if it came with his Egg shaped spaceship/pod

Yeah, I'm pretty much where you are. i have schooling in 3dsmax and all the adobe stuff, but i dont have the budget or time to pay for all those and im not clever enough to get free cracked versions. i just like to make stuf that i would like in my collection, and if others have enjoyed what i make its a bonus. im definitely not taking anyone's job. i like what you said about it being a new brush to use. my uncle used to work in marketing up in NYC in a skyscraper years ago. he said at one time each guy would have a specialty, then it became one guy had 5 specialties and replaced the other 4 guys. next the whole floor was empty and tons of guys lost work. it didn't start with A.I., but it may be the final boss. i do feel we should be able to post any images (in good taste of course) on here, especially if it is minimates related. that's why we're here, right?

Great work Barry and Luke! They look gorgeous!

would love to see Spawn!

They look amazing!

I may get some heat for my thoughts ... but ... couldn't the same be said for Photoshop and illustrator and every other computer based design program that we all have used forever? even further back, I bet the guys that used to make their own paint and canvas were pretty pissed at the guys who could just go buy that stuff. Or guys that ran a printing press (who probably angered the scribes who hand wrote everything) when i started customizing it was 100% hand painted stuff. and my customs looked terrible. i was able to get better results from learning newer technology. back then you couldn't even really find ways to even figure out how to make stuff , even with the internet. i wish i had this stuff available when i started. Sometimes its not about being lazy, and not doing the work, its for people who maybe have never been able to do it and can finally see a vision pan out. I've wanted M.A.S.K. figures forever, and have spent a lot of time over the years trying to make them but always fell short. I've reached out many many times to artists, and eventually 3d modellers, but i just can't afford what they want just to get a little tiny 3d print. ive probably put thousands of hours into trying different things over the years that i just couldn't do to my satisfaction. I might finally be able to make M.A.S.K. helmets using A.I., for me that's pretty cool. unless someone want to give me $1000 to have someone design and print me a handful of helmets😉 I do recognize that A.I. is a completely new animal, and some of it honestly scares me (i question half the videos and images i see online lately) so my thoughts are really just focused on minimates (and action figures in general) I for one am interested in what people come up with pertaining to our little world here. there's some characters I've wanted to have for 20 years that I'll probably never get to make , but it will be awesome to see them as close to real as possible. I also think it lets folks who would never be able to make stuff to finally have a resource. these are my own thoughts on this, and i've never been in it to make any money. I would probably have a slightly different view if my livelihood depended on it and A.I. came in and took over. i'd like to note... I have been phased out of a job before due to machines taking over a factory job i've had, so i do know how it feels to some extent. sorry gang, didn't mean to ramble on. I know it sucks for some of you guys your pal, Nerv

I agree with you, i think it would have looked better representing the style of figure in the package, not the classic artwork. Like you said, it is already widely available. I'm definitely interested if you end up doing some of these. Thanks again.

yes, I absolutely 100% loved the single carded figs. i think they are beautiful, and are my favorite minimates. I was just as hyped for the packaging with these as the figures themselves (just ask Jeff, lol). The only thing i had hoped for was the front card image. that is where the idea from my other post is from. I'd love it if you replicated the artwork, using the same poses as original artwork in front of the explosions. But instead, make the characters in minimates form. I would 100% love a series of those, could even be little trading card size, with filecard info on the back, if someone was feeling extra ambitious, lol as always, thanks for your time, I love talking about this stuff.