CodyScoop.com - showcase for one artist's anime-themed models & mecha
Title
Cody's Coop - Modeling, Garage Kits, Anime & Mecha by Cody Kwok
Description
Welcome to my site devoted to the less common genre in the modeling world: figures and mecha. I’ve building mechas since I was a kid, but didn’t have the skills or resources to do a good job, i.e. didn’t putty and sand, only paint with crappy brushes etc. Fast forward to the end of 1998 when I had a chance to pick up modeling again, and got all the right tools and right info, my passion for the hobby ignited again. This time however, I got into something I only dreamt of doing: figures. They’re fascinating modeling subjects, and these finished eye candys are like trophies. I’m not uninterested in other stuff, one day I’d like to do some air carriers or an X-wing, but there are so many figures to build and so little time!
watch much anime, it can’t help that you also want to own a 3D likeness of the characters too! Anime figures are not very common in the english speaking world but in Japan they’ve been an active hobby for more than one and a half decade. What attracts me is the wide variety of figures to choose from and the rather imaginative sculpting works.
My style of painting is geared towards realism, for people who have only seen anime as it appears on TV may have trouble accepting it, but many anime characters had been portrayed realistically in artbooks (notably Haruhiko Mikimoto’s [Macross] work) To bind a 3D object back to a 2D space is simply imposing a limit on creativity, that’s why most figures that appears in Hobby Japan looks like they’re painted the same way. It hurts to think that one cannot do better than that.
Contact
- Chung Kwok
- Mountain View California
- United States 94043
- 6509969327