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Miniatures Photography Tutorial on the Cipher Studios Blog

Miniatures photography can be a tricky business with a considerable learning curve. Hopefully I can help you cut through some of the trial and error–I’ve written a new tutorial for the Cipher Studios blog. This is third in an ongoing series of tutorials I’ve written for them. Enjoy!
http://cipher-studios.com/2009/09/photographing-miniatures-by-ryder-gaddis/

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Anima Tactics Tutorial for Ahriman Figure

I’ve been painting the official Anima Tactics figures since the game’s release. Recently I’ve started to write tutorials focusing on a prominent aspect of each figure. The second of these is a tutorial for for the Ahriman, Lord of Darkness figure. I describe my technique for blending black to intense color.
See the tutorial on [...]

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Featured on the Cipher Studios Blog

My work on new Anima Tactics fire demon figure is  featured in a recent post on the Cipher Studios blog.  I talk about my method of “underpainting” using a combination of white and black primer. I’ll be doing more of these features for them in the future, and they’ll take the form of “mini-tuts”. Find [...]

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Nullhorizon.com Relaunch is Live

As of today, the Null Horizon Studio website is back with a new look and an expanded mission. I’ve rebuilt the site from the ground up, putting my greatly improved design and development skills to work. Please have a look around!
While I’ll be tweaking and improving the site as I move ahead, I’m eager to [...]

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Private Commissions Booked Solid For Forseeable Future

Regretfully, I won’t be able to to accept new private commissions for the foreseeable future as I am booked solid. I’d like to thank everyone who has expressed interest over the past year, and say I am always wishing I could accommodate more projects. If you are on my wait list, I will be going [...]

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A Year In, Null Horizon’s Future, New Pricing/Services

I’m writing about some price/service changes that I’m putting into effect this month, and some changes to my overall strategy. The short of it is that I’m going to start charging a little more, but that extra money is going to give me the room I need to explore creatively and continue to push my [...]

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Link to Tutorial and Galleries and Gallery Addition for Wood Elf Champion

I’ve just realized I never put up pics of the wood elf champion I painted for a three-part tutorial for theminiaturespage.com’s workbench, and I never linked to those articles either. For those interested, the articles describe the complete process of painting the foot and mounted versions of the figure, and creating a [...]

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Contest Wins, and Published in Harbinger Magazine

It’s been a long time since my last update, but I have a lot of new material coming up to show what I’ve been up to all this time.
To kick things off I have some news about several painting competitions I’ve recently placed in.
I had two winning entries in Wyrd Miniatures’ “The Rotten Harvest! II” [...]

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We’re Live!

Nullhorizon.com is go for launch! The studio is live and accepting commissions. I’d like to extend a warm welcome all our visitors!
It’s been a lot of work, web design not being my foremost talent, but it’s here and it will only improve. I’ll be ironing out some small remaining kinks and adding some [...]

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