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Name
Mike Battle
Bio
The 42-year-old, who grew up on the Rochester/Greece border and in Honeoye Falls and since 2003 has called Burbank, California, home, is a creative guy. For more than 15 years he has worked as a color modelist — what he's described as a digital cleanup artist and painter — on the long-running animated TV series The Simpsons.
His process for creating a miniature of a beloved Los Angeles location is as follows: “I typically start by collecting photographs online or … I will drive to them and take photographs for reference. I then create a stencil in Photoshop which I trace onto ¼-inch plywood (and use a jigsaw) to cut them out.”
He uses thick foil to contain some of the signs’ channeled letters and recently bought a 3-D printer to create smaller elements that would be too difficult to create by hand.
Some of Mike's miniatures of Los Angeles locations:
Felix Chevrolet
Samuel’s Florist
Compton’s Shoe Repair
Circus Liquor
Brown Derby
Larry’s Chili Dog
His process for creating a miniature of a beloved Los Angeles location is as follows: “I typically start by collecting photographs online or … I will drive to them and take photographs for reference. I then create a stencil in Photoshop which I trace onto ¼-inch plywood (and use a jigsaw) to cut them out.”
He uses thick foil to contain some of the signs’ channeled letters and recently bought a 3-D printer to create smaller elements that would be too difficult to create by hand.
Some of Mike's miniatures of Los Angeles locations:
Felix Chevrolet
Samuel’s Florist
Compton’s Shoe Repair
Circus Liquor
Brown Derby
Larry’s Chili Dog
