#awa_MasterClass

  When speaking about toy photography, one of the subjects that causes a lot of discussion in the community is how things scale. Certain lines put out certain characters, and the scale sometimes can play havoc with having characters cross the boundaries of the multiverse to square off against another. Marvel Legends scale with certain things well, where Neca and McFarlane figures generally only scale with themselves. This sort of thing can cause the artist some fits when it comes to having a fantasy face off between characters they love. After all, Hulk vs Batman should look like a mismatch with Batman being much smaller.   In the realm of collecting and shooting photos of toys, there’s one company that stands out for putting a plethora of fictional characters in their products, and have them remain to scale with one another. Only one toy company has the licensing to such a wide variety of worlds, where you could have Darth Vader and Lord Voldemort fighting Superman and Super ...

 For this edition of the Masters Class we have done something that has yet to be done on this page, and presumably has never been done within the toy community in general. The concept had planted roots from a conversation with Instagram's resident Photoshop Wizard @Clintastic4, or as we have come to call him, Clintastic the Great and Powerful. We had been discussing ideas of shows for group of us, and Clint had mentioned an idea of a show called "The Photo Shop" in which he would take a shot from someone else, and do a step by step breakdown of how he could turn it into a veritable masterpiece of photoshop art. After letting the roots take hold, and likely more suggestions and prying than Clint had anticipated from a comment he had made, I had reached out to Clintastic inquiring whether or not he would be interested in participating in another Masters Class collaboration regarding photoshop, and to try out his idea in that manner. Full disclosure, and dont believe him if ...