Gabriel Holmquist

I’m Gabriel Holmquist a current student at ASU as apart of the Fulton School of engineering's Graphic Information Technology Major. I’m a passionate creative who likes to learn about multiple mediums and incorporating new skills to include into my work flows. Following are Skills along with examples where I've utalized them.

My product photography started in relation to my interest in assembling model kits, more commonly Bandai Namcos Gundam’s. I discovered a mock magazine by dots.evil.biz ‘KITBASH’ at Seattle Central College’s Portfolio Show. While flipping through it I got really excited, as apart of my major Graphic Information Technology degree I had been working on my own Photoshop and graphic design projects. They had opted to use photographs by Bandai Namco and Saint-ism, but did an amazing job writing small blurbs and really crisp presentation. I set up my own small scale photo studio in an attempt to replicate the profressional grade photos I was seeing. (A more through explanation can be found in the indepth study at the end of the section)

Here (above and below) were my results of some trial and error, figuring out a good workflow. I had done a good amount or research into the equipment more profressional (than I) hobbiest and companies were using. Really focusing on some images I had seen on the Japan Bandai Namco Photography and Saint-ism's home studio. I had some issues with finding good ways to diffuse the light to my liking, but found some other methods more simple than I thought. The most vital pieces to the setup I built was lighting. Focusing on that helped with doing more interesting edge lighting and making my paper backgrounds look a lot better.

This was one of my more recent projects as of July 2025. My girlfriend is into cosplaying and had completed and worn one as Bayonetta. However, She had made some really nice looking guns with foam which were functional as props but not durable. I spent some time though to model her some custom ones for her hand size and as a first attempt get some better ideas on where I could add thinks like the hammer cocking or an idea I had come up with was pulling parts from a nerf gun and implanting them into my model. These were the first attempt fully modeled and printed on my Elegoo Saturn 3 Ultra

I started by getting everything modeled in Blender as I'm more comfortable with their enviroment. Then I moved to Autodesk Fusion and got it to the correct scaling, by going off my girlfriends hand size. There was a point where I figured due to some different ideas I was having I would 3d print the whole body and Dremel out space to figure out how the material would react.

My biggest concern was how thin the walls might get if I were to springs an some of the smaller components I had seen other prop makers use. I ended the experience with a lot learned and have already started working on the next iteration. I know my girlfriend also really likes to work on these kind of projects having more experience than me so handed them over with all the nesecarry hardware, with the last steps being spray paint and clear coat.