Sweetie Bot and Thrackerzod Accessories

Still feeling too lazy to make new eyes, but at least I did finally get around to making accessories for Sweetie Bot and Thrackerzod.

Sweetie Bot comes with her yoyo, hammer and a mysterious box containing other objects of FUN.

Thrackerzod comes equipped with her balloons... and although it's not visible at this angle, she does have string wrapping around her belly that can be easily tied and untied at will.

[in the event you see the string chafing her skin, don't worry... that is perfectly normal ]

What makes this picture uber special, though, is that it's the first taken with my new lighting studio which arrived today.

It includes three coloured muslin cloths (obviously in need of a good ironing, lol), a large stand to hold these up, two 85W umbrella lamps and a 45W support light (not used here). It mimics natural daylight, so these pictures were taken with no flash and almost no post-processing (other than to normalize the images to look similar to each other).

Speaking of post-processing, this is also my first image to be compiled in Gimp 2.8, which unlike it's previous incarnations is actually VERY recommendable. Great job, GIMP team, in finally heeding our advice after over a decade of suggesting the same darn thing! A nice donation to that project is in order. ^^b