Remember the first time you saw T2 and found out that the Terminator wasn’t going to kill anybody? I have to say I was a bit disappointed. That was before I realized he could still WOUND them in pretty gruesome ways. This has to be one of my all time favorite movies to this day. That is why I am pretty excited about our new T2 Minimates. I can re-create all the great scenes from one of my all time favorite movies right on my coffee table! I only wish we could make a Minimate size semi-truck and dirtbike. That, and maybe some cop cars to obliterate. I can tell you the prototypes I have seen are really cool, I can’t wait to get my hands on the production versions when they come out.

Animation makes everything better.
Especially when they are web banners for you! (more…)

Dear Readers,

When I first came to DST Hasbro was the license I immediately “took over”, I think the first Ad I ever did was for a G.I. Joe bust. While I do (and I go out there on a dorky limb divulging this stuff with you) collect Joe’s as well as Star Wars it was the Transformers part of the Hasbro license that really excited me. I wish I had a back list of all the transformers I have done in the past two years or so, I would venture to say around 25-30 but my Math-foo is weak so that could just be a shot in the dark.

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Why is it every time I hear the name Ultra Magnus I think of Mucus, they should call him Ultra Mucus. So I worked on getting him all ready to hit previews today. I have done so many of these ads that it doesn’t take much time at all. Unless…. Unless he is in San Diego and your boss took the pictures, and he has never worked on Transformers before and didn’t shoot any of the poses you needed. I spent some time trying to figure out how to get the ad to look just like the others when indeed I did not have all the shots I needed. I always shoot the transformers starting from the front and rotating one eighth the way around and shooting again, and so on until I make my way back around to the front, each ad contains about four shots, and each box contains about 6-7 different shots. It will be fine and I doubt if anyone will even notice, maybe DST Robert, but the fans more than likely won’t mind so much.

Keep an eye out for Ultra Magnus, he’s pretty Bad-ass,

From the tired fingers of,

DST Jen