FREINDS OF AESOP ACTION FIGURES

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AESOP is an action adventure story told with photographs of one-sixth scale figures in highly detailed scale environments, which appears regularly in Lees Toy Review Magazine. The stories are told in comic panel layout often with two or more installments per story and usually with a cliffhanger at the end of each installment. Combining the best elements of action films and comic books, AESOP has colorful, complex characters that transcend their plastic forms.

AESOP is created using digital photography. Scenes are lit using standard motion picture lighting to achieve a film look. Editing and finishing is done on Adobes PhotoShop software. The main characters are off the shelf action figures from various companies including Hasbro and Blue Box Toys, which are customized to create a unique appearance. All sets and most of the set dressing are scratch built for each installment. For a select number of panels, digital composites are created using real backgrounds combined with one-sixth scale figures and propsAESOP creates a new storytelling medium. In doing so it gives one-sixth scale action figure fans what they want most; characters and environments that look as close to the real world as possible. AESOP also has a broad enough appeal to attract anyone who enjoys action adventure comics, films, books, television or computer games. Characters and story telling remain the priority and give AESOP the ability to translate to any of these other media.