Hobby Evolution -What comes next?

[cfwheeler58]

I see your point. I think you can do a lot with lighting, but probably not motion.
I could see using a servo to create a change in perspective ( like the reveal of
the cave, above ) as long as it presents as something "outside" the vignette and
is not intended or perceived as part of the scene. That's probably hard to do.

One of the aspects of this hobby that doesn't get mentioned much is that a
second hobby has propelled to the forefront in the past 10 years. It used to be
that people either built models/painted figs/etc. or they weren't really involved
at all. I can't be the only one who now enjoys this as a "spectator sport". The
internet, digital camera, easily created DVD and mostly, people's willingness to
share and grow have burst the non-gaming side of minis WIDE OPEN. That has
been one of the primary catalysts for the rapid escalation and documentation
of techniques, materials, etc. It's amazing really.

 

[twomoons]

^^^Sure is,,,I was super active in the beginning couldn't get enough of it, and travelled everywhere to compete. I started scratchbulding my own, because there was hardly any castings of my favorite subject available...so I made my own. I continued for a while, then left it and sculpted "non-minis and did flat art and basically left the "hobby."
Now I'm back for the last year or two and I'm absolutely gobsmacked at what's avilable in every aspect ,,,not only the figures, but the paints and the FX stuff and groundwork and accessories, etc,,,wow! It just blew my mind and still is. And you need a pocket full of dough, too.
But by far, the most amazing aspect since I've returned is the level of quality art in painted figures and in sculpting...now everybody and his brother is a great painter...and so many sculptors, too. Boggles the mind.
With the level that it's all at now, wherever it does go, whatever is next, whatever's yet to come--- it's going to be something! And exciting.
I just hope I can tag along....you know--keep up...