“So I’m not saying that I’m just going to throw a sepia filter over these and put them in the blog, but I’m also not not saying that either”.

I think this is a first for me. Usually, I struggle to get one Halloween post up each year, but this time I have managed three so far. This shoot wasn’t my typical fare. I didn’t go into it with any grand concept. I didn’t even know what to expect when Nicky said they were bringing blood and fangs. I just let it happen. And what happened was this unintentional vampire-western that I couldn’t have asked to be any different.

I can’t say that anything in this post will go into my portfolio long term, but that doesn’t bother me. I had fun, and I did the work. That is what matters the most.

And if you made it this far, now the opening quote will make a little more sense. But I warn you, there are some spicy images past this point. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

This shoot has easily been two years in the making. It’s funny how a global pandemic can just up and shut down an entire entertainment industry for a while. But let’s start at the beginning and work forwards.

The Fandom Nerdlesque is one of my favorite clients. Even though I still cringe when producer, Sig Sawyer, calls me (his words not mine) “The best cosplay photographer in Atlanta”. Back in 2018 I was invited to shoot some high speed video during the promotional shoot for the first scripted video game themed show “S3ND NOOBZ”, and I was excited to be invited back to create the promotional materials for it’s sequel show which debuts at Anime Weekend Atlanta later this year.

A lot of this material came from me teaching myself Affinity Designer sometime in mid-2020. I had just recently finished up a batch of comic book covers for The Fandom (Which mark my words, one day will see the light of day) for another show that ended up being canceled. In a fit of sadness I designed what would become the Gameboy assets that I got to use for this series.

To make things even better and several orders of magnitude harder, I decided to shoot part of this campaign on actual Gameboy Camera hardware, resulting in the some of the most thought out, lowest resolution images I have ever created.

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Magenta Marie as “Player 1”

Dillon Darling as “Donkey Kong”

Desire Evoquer as “Jinx”

Titan Moon as “Naked Snake”

Sasha Sindragosa as “Springtrap”

Kil La Queenie as “Spyro”

Pixie Twixt as “Navi”

Violin Hips as “Anika”

At the time of this blog post, I’m fairly certain that tickets to Anime Weekend Atlanta still are available. And as far as I know that is all you need to see these nerds take their clothes off on Friday night of the convention.

Nicky - 2022.

And if you made it this far, now the opening quote will make a little more sense. But I warn you, there are some spicy images past this point. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The Fandom Nerdlesque - Send Noobs: Leveled Up Promo Shoot - 2022.