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Home » Site News » 15 Minutes of Fame: Abotu shapes up a c...

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15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes – from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you'd like to hear more about. Last week, Mike Schramm introduced Abotu (Emerald Dream-US) and his to-die-for custom Troll Rogue action figure. Abotu has been sculpting custom figures as long as he can remember. "When I was little, if there was a toy I wanted that I didn't have, I'd try to make it myself out of modeling clay or construction paper," he remembers. He's done exactly that here by creating Abotu, his own World of Warcraft figure – puts Figureprints to shame, doesn't it? 15 Minutes of Fame visited with Aboto this week, not only to find out more about the player behind the talent but also to get inside scoop on exactly what went into making his Abotu custom. Our two-part look at Abotu the sculptor, the making of Abotu the action figure, plus photo galleries of the Abotu figure and other creations from this talented player ... after the break. What was the first action figure you modified? My first serious custom figure was a superhero that I created when I was a kid, and I later decided to make a real action figure of him. I bought some random toy biz superhero figure, did a little carving on his hair, repainted him, added a cape. It wasn't perfect work, but I was pretty thrilled at the time. I was probably around 16. Tell us about your first made-from-scratch custom. I made a little cartoony guy out of FIMO that had a couple moving parts. I really wasn't good at that kind of thing yet. I wasn't used to the materials I was working with, and there were structural problems. It was a learning experience. You say you went through a phase of trying to do "serious art." What became of that? I went to a university to study art for two semesters, took a ton of studio art classes. I got good grades and did a few cool pieces, but it wasn't a satisfying experience, so I left. I think to a certain extent being an artist is not something that can be taught in a school, and it's not exactly a path to fame and fortune in most cases, either. Most people with degrees in art end up doing something else for money. I got pretty disillusioned. I decided to follow my own path and get deeper into this goofy genre stuff, which is what I actually love. At what point did other people begin to take your action figure work seriously? My family was not thrilled when I dropped out of college, and people around me didn't really see the connection between toys and art -- you know, clearly it was a waste of my time. It wasn't until I made a miniature portrait of a friend as a gift that people around me realized that actual talent went into this. Everybody was like, "It looks just like him!" and I was kinda like, "Yeah, this is what I do..."
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