Meltdown 3

I challenged myself to tell a short story in a newly created environment with ONE, rigid, dark gray toy figure. Only the hands are "posable" (read, can only revolve) First I set out to make a two-room diorama from scratch, using the internals of an old (landline) phone and laptop, foam, Subway sandwich trays, Lego and more. To bend the red characters leg, I took several images with the figure in different positions (see comments). I came up with a rig to revolve it at waist height. In PS I created the leg (no AI prompting). The colorization of the figures was also done in PS. To make sure the reflections would be correct, I had built Lego stand-ins in the color I was going for. So during the shoot, I had the dark gray figure on one side and a colored version made of Lego on the other side.

BTS iin comments!

Shot on a full-frame camera @ 33mm (24-70, 2.8)
f/14
30s
ISO100