Inspired by this pose
I never want anyone to take our figures as anything other than miniature football models. I would never think in a million years that what I do is on the level of McFarlane or realistic in any manner. Most will tell you these were never intended for miniature football and it makes little difference of those who do not use FF.Net products. That has always been the way we've looked at it but we can still be inspired by educating those that do use our products to reach beyond the limits. For me, I am very accessible, sometimes to my own detriment, but it is important to educate people about my product and the great possibilities that it presents.
I talk to customizers of our products all the time and you can hear the excitement in their voice of what they can do. While beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, most customizers that I talk to share a similar feeling about the figures of FF.Net.
We can take this "nothing figure" and turn it into something. We can take a figure that many mocked because it was not hard plastic and shape it into something that looks half-way decent. The Deion Sanders from McFarlane inspired me. Not because of the beauty of the art work but moreso because of the creativity it would take to take this "nothing figure" and make him resemble the great McFarlane figure!
I have been blessed to think way outside the box and apply that self-taught knowledge and create things for my pleasure. If it pleases others, that's okay but my biggest aim is to inspire others that even if it is not realistic, we can do some things to make it appealing. That's all I try to do with what I do.
Shown below is the actual Deion McFarlane pose and what I tried to do. I know it's not close but I was and is always inspired.
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