Batbrick(Nightwing)

Yes, and I do occasionally take commissions depending on how the art looks, the persons budget, etc.

These are some of my latest prints: http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8714980488/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8714980612/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8714980704/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8713860393/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8714980858/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8714980974/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8714981096/in/photostream/ There will be TONS more added soon. All are avaliable.

I do Pad and Digital Printing.

It seems like people are relating the "Third Party" to LEGO too much. By them saying that anything non-LEGO is custom, that's like saying everything in the world is not official. Seems a but steep, I know, but they are separate brands and I can't understand why people can't use to brands and have to alienate the other one that isn't as popular and call it custom and call the other official. MegaBloks is a big established company, but I think just because most people use LEGO's they try and call the other one "non-official". Also if altering a brick makes it custom, w all have lots of customs because bricks get minuscule scratched and that would change the brick. That wouldn't be any different from cutting the brick in half. It's still modifying it. IMO, Anything except LEGO is not Official TO LEGO, per LEGO Standards. LEGO would be non-official for BrickArms since it isn't a BrickArms product. It just seems like people are seeing LEGO as a default.

But the thing is it isn't LEGO. The thing that makes something LEGO is that it is made by LEGO. Brickarms happen to fit LEGO, but it isn't LEGO it's BrickArms. And official at that. What I'm trying to say is if us printers and 3D designers are 'customizing" LEGO is too. We're doing the same thing. Saying BrickArms is custom is like saying there is only one brand. If you buy a golf club by Brand X, and you buy Brand Y, does that make Brand Y less "Official" than Brand X? No, it doesn't LEGO is doing the same thing we are doing. All are just as Official and just as much Customizing. ABS plastic has to be moulded to be a LEGO piece. IT doesn't start off like that. It starts off as beads.

My main point is this: How is it custom if it's not sold by LEGO. If it's Brickarms, it's official because it's made by their company. Brickarms aren't LEGO, so I don't see how they are any more custom than LEGO. Same applies for the rest of the companies. We aren't branches of LEGO, so how are we custom. Like my 3D models. They happen to fit LEGO, but aren't LEGO, and I call them official pieces. But my other point is printing of a figure no matter who, is customizing to an extent.

This has been on my mind lately... What is purist? It seems people are going too far with the term. I think most people consider purist when something is made by LEGO. But when you look deeper, like has Graphic Designers, and they are all different people. SO if LEGO hires a new one does that make it purist? Also if you call Christo, Eclipsegrafx, CitizenBrick, and Batbrick custom, wouldn't LEGO be a form of customizing? Printing on a piece of ABS Plastic to make it a character is what we're all doing. That's what we're all doing. So maybe if I sold a Jason Todd Batman, it wouldn't be custom because I'm not saying the design is LEGO made. So wouldn't it be Official per my company? Since LEGO is a company, just like the rest of us. And what if a Designer Resigned from LEGO but still has access to a printer? If he continues to make things would those be considered purist? I just thought I should share this. I have a lot of purist friends who I want to see it this way. All us people who print on LEGO are Graphic Designers, just like the ones at LEGO, so I think purist people should enjoy the printed works of other Designers, since it is essentially the same method as LEGO. I'd like to hear your words, Employee at Batbrick

Here they are! http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8517224510/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8516234917/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8517344376/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8516156431/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/batbrick/8516133621/in/photostream What do you think? Coming next is Arkham City: Azrael and Nightwing Jason Todd Batman Green Lantern: SDCC and LB2 Red Robin and Damian Wayne New 52: Nightwing

A few of you may know us already, but we are a team of 3 skilled Graphic designers. We doa lot of designs and our plan is to get quite a few figures printed for you guys, that will help us get our printer and then we are going to print our personal DC designs. After that, we plan to make a very large Batcave(Not completely LEGO, using realistic fake rocks to make a background and levels. THen we plan to make films of most of the popular Batman Comic Stoires into LEGO. But, we appreciate what a LEGO really is so in these films we won't be trying to make them human becasue it's not Batman... It's LEGO Batman. So chracters may remove certain parts like wigs and heads in them. We are going to release a sneak peak of some Arrow Figures fairly soon too...

So far we have these figures planned for three short runs: Wave 1: Nightwing Young Justice Cyclops Beast Nightcrawler Arrow Red Arrow Wave 2: Hawkman Cyborg Hawkgirl Deadshot Deathstroke from Lego Batman 2 Wave 3: Huntress Huntress from Arrow Deadshot from Arrow The Flash Wave 4: Many Minifigs from the new LEGO Marvel Game All waves feature cutom capes. There are quite a few of these which will have game accurate headgear. Not sculpted. Now this is what we need help with. After we reach our goal and get our printer, we are printing some of our personal designs. So far this is most of what we have done: Alfred Robin Arkham City Arsenal Deathstroke Arkham City Comic Batman Batgirl Batman Beyond Batman New 52 Batwoman Black Bat Black Canary Black Lightning Black Mask Blockbuster Booster Gold Captain Atom Captain Marvel Catwoman(Back, Purple and Grey) Batgirl Cassandra Cain Batwing Etrigan the Demon Flamebird Batgirl Helena Bertinelli Killer Croc(Grey) Damian Wayne Robin Deadman Deathstroke from Arrow Batman Dick Grayson Robin Tim Drake Robin(Quite a few different suits) Dark Knight Returns Batman Green Arrow Green Lantern Hawkman(another suit) David Cain(multiple suits) Hush Hush Robin Batman Jason Todd Batman Jean-Paul Valley Azrael Lady Shiva Lynx Man-Bat Martian Manhunter Metamorpho Red Robin(a few suits including New 52) Nightrunner Nightwing(A ton of diffeent suits, even the Disco and New 52) Red Hood(About 5 different versions including New 52) Plastic Man Ras al Ghul(suit and shirtless) Poison Ivy in Green Batman and Robin from the old films Red Lantern Red Robin Unternet(?) Red Tornado Renegade Sinestro Solomon Grundy Spoiler Static Superboy(Regular and New 52) Talia al Ghul The Question Batman The New Batman Adventures Victor Zsasz WIldcat Wondergirl Zatanna now who else should we make? Only DC, please no minor characters

Getting closer to being printed. Will update later.