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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.
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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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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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