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The National Museum of Play Patricia Hogen RIT Cage Facilities Merlin Digital Printing Solutions Photo Sciences Department
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About the Author
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The Project
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Action Figures
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About Jace Artichoker is a 4th year Photographic Sciences and Technologies major at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has a passion for everything about imaging. Also having a minor in Applied Imaging Systems, He keeps the end goal in mind while choosing his equipment and workflow to get the best results from the system. While he enjoys the technical aspect of Art Reproduction and Museum Artifact photography, He has a wide range of skills having spent a summer at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Cape Cod Massachusetts working for Zeiss Microscopy being the aid for everything microscopy and aiding researchers on projects. In the future Jace hopes to use his Photographic Sciences degree to aid companies using and constructing cameras for various purposes to their fullest potential. Using the technical information acquired through his experiences and his creative drive to troubleshoot issues with any camera system. He also is skilled at digital image processing and camera tuning to gain clearer images or extract specific data from images. When not geeking out about cameras and imaging, he enjoys nature photography while hiking though the wilderness as well as rock climbing and taking care of his many plants and succulents. 8
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The Project
This book is a part of a senior capstone project that is designed for the student to work on in their last semester of their senior year. After being granted access to the 2,400+ figure collection of Star Wars Action figures at the National Museum of Play, the end product was to pick some of the most iconic and photogenic figures of the collection and create a book focused on highlighting the figures themselves. The high resolution, color accurate files are the kinds that are required in archival imaging processes in museums to best document specimens. Each figure is uniquely posed based on its capabilities and the image is meant capture the characters personality that everyone is familiar with throughout the Star Wars franchise. This project had a secondary portion that aimed to create a 3D reconstruction of the R2-D2 figure utilizing a camera and software. The software uses information from the cameras specifications and is able to assign points to features that are present in features from multiple images and angles. 9
A ction F igures
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Aayla Secura
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A s a jj V e n t r e ss
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Darth Maul
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Boba Fett
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Jango Fett
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Ahsoka Tano
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Obi-wan Kenobi
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Han Solo
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Qui-gon Jinn
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Super Battle Droid
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Chewbacca
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Count Dooku
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R2 -D2
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Yoda
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Jar-Jar Binks
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Ewok
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Storm Troopers
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Clone Troopers
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Anakin Skywalker
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Darth Sideous
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Darth Vader
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5 copies made Printed on Xeikon Printers at Merlin Printing Designed in Adobe InDesign Images edited in Lightroom and Photoshop JUICE typeface used, created by ‘Gadisradio’ All photography and design by Jace Artichoker Use of Star Wars Characters and Symbols for educational puroposes only. Created Spring semester of 2015 for Senior Capstone project
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