Curious George. He was a fun little guy to do as a sculpture.
I had the pleasure of walking through a small toy store with my young daughter. As we were walking out she became excited and pulled my by the hand to a display case near the front of the store. "Look daddy!" she exclaimed, "They're selling your toy!". She pointed and sure enough, this piece was there in the case among a dozen other toys. Talk about eagle eyes!
Heads up!
When I write these Blog entries I usually start by sifting through older images we have on file. Today I found these, heads of Spiderman, Doctor Doom and Venom. These were made with some sort of suction cup base so that you could mount the head of your favorite Marvel Comics personality on your skateboard, or snow board or computer.. whatever you like.
Our four legged friend was sculpted with production in mind. Please note the pose, especially how all the limbs were arranged so that this figure could be molded in a two part side to side draw mold.
We are proud of this figure because with it we felt we captured the warrior nature of this Centaur as well as meeting the production needs of our client.
Here are the heads of Batman and three of his foes- Two Face, The Riddler and The Joker. These were modeled from the comic book style guide so they are more cartoon than real.
We sculpted these items over a pre existing form so that the actual products could cover a specific mechanism. Sometimes when sculpting for product considerations have to be made to accommodate manufacture.
Our client was thrilled and we had the double pleasure of working with our friends at Warner Brothers and DC Comics to get these quickly approved.
This will one day be SPIDERMAN!What you see is a golden brown wax body
that we posed in our computer and
printed out with our 3d printer.
The reddish brown on the face area and hands
is clay being built up,
this sculpture is in the early early stages-
the roughing out part part of the process really.
Yes! It's True! We Found NEMO!
This sculpture is in the paint master phase of production-
that means our friends at Disney and Pixar
have approved the sculpture
and now we are having the way we painted it approved.
We are provided with the exact colors they want,
it's up to us to match these colors and
apply them exactly where they need to go.
OK, so this picture is from a LONG time ago, these figurines with hinged wrists were designed by me after I was flown to San Francisco to tour the "Skellington Productions" facility as they were making the film Nightmare Before Christmas. I got to spend the day with Henry Sellick and his team walking through the multitude of sets, walking past model makers.. I actually got to hold the Jack Skellington and Professor Finkelstein puppets!A couple of Days later I got to sit down at my desk and create an entire line of products based on what I had seen. Figurines, Dolls, Mechanical rolling toys, Plush, Ceramic Mugs, Key Chains... you name it.
It's true that these particular items were not made by our current incarnation Little Wonder Studio- but they were made by one of our team members and that shows how deep our toy making roots go. Actually- they go further back than that, but that's another blog post!
This is a line up of Simpsons characters.
This image was made using photoshop
so our client and the licensor (Fox)
could easily see relative scale of the sculptures-
Note how many different colors of wax
were used in the development of these figures-
the ones with the most colors were the ones
that needed little refinements as we did the job.
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