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Technologic (2005) 

oh no now that i have a design there’s nothing stopping me from actually making them

Seeing as today is the two year anniversary of my blog Trooper Tracks (named for the bruises you got from wearing Stormtrooper armor) I wanted to post some of my favorite studio photos I’ve taken with Robots over the last 730 days.

Fun fact; it was the first two images that got noticed at 20th Century Fox by a Daft Punk loving Director. Because of the quality he wanted a personal Thomas set for himself to which I obliged. Another dividend of getting into Daft Punk’s costumes that I was invited to work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens First Order Stormtroopers for Celebration Anaheim.

My Tumblr origin story is simple, and succinct:

DAFT PUNK: 衝撃旳映画 「ELECTROMA」を制作 (Daft Punk Directs the Shocking Film ‘Electroma’)

Daft Punk Interview / LOUD Issue 142. October 2006 Photographer: Kamioka Shinsuke (profile / site / image)

(There exists a post of this with more notes, but the photo link is broken and there seems to be no translation of the article, so I fixed both of those things. This is an interview purely about the creation process of Electroma, though quite playful in tone. While translating, I thought that this piece seemed written in an odd manner, stylistically speaking; if you think that the questions sound very formal or stiff compared to the answers, that is not an accident. That’s how it reads - formally-spoken questions contrasted with gentle, informal, almost teacherly answers - and I’ve tried my best to get that across in English. I have no idea if this was a stylistic choice from the writers, or if it accurately represents what the interview was like. It isn’t clear who is answering the questions either, but I believe this to be a Thomas-only discourse, judging by content and the occasional exclamations or laughter, which were lovingly preserved in the text. Short and fun overall.)