Meet Logur! Created by Oddfauna!

I have been having a blast recently, working with a lot of my long time favorite artists! One of those artists is the amazingly talented Emma SanCartier of Oddfauna. I have been collecting her adorable gypsum sculptures ( of which I have 8 ) for awhile now and when she came to me to discuss molding/casting her latest sculpture I was extremely excited!  I first started with creating the mold. 

 Added a Mohawk like vent system for air to travel through during resin injections, as well as pressure potting. I then created a foam core box and poured if full of sorta clear platinum silicone. 

Here's a view of the inside of the box. 

 After the mold was boxed, silicone poured and allowed to cure. It is ready to be cut open. 

The mold has now been cut open using a jewelers cut, I will spray it with release band 

it together and inject pigmented plastics. 

 Here is one of the first runs, using a bunch of blues, teals and reds.

Another first test, in sapphire blue. 

 And here are some lovely pictures of the finished Jade Logur's taken and painted by Emma!

It's so hard for me to pick a favorite of the Jade series, bit I really love

4 and 6. I can't wait for more experimenting!

due to the nature of casting even if I use the exact same colors

they can vary a bit. 

So many cool finishes! I know all those Logur's found happy homes! 

GhostGirl

Hello, It's been too long since I have updated! I have been working on a few freelance casting jobs, as well as a couple stop motion shorts. 

Here is one of them, GhostGirl. It's a book series by Tonya Hurley. 

For this trailer I made GhostGirls hands, as well as the extra character torsos. 

Ghost Girl Trailer from Matthew Huber on Vimeo.

Here's an early process photo, created by Martin Meunier

Zombees!!

One of the freelance jobs I worked on in March was a really cool zombee which is exactly as it sounds, a zombie bee! Rick Marson creator of Zoms, wanted to take his stuffed zombees to next level and create toys!  Ann Sidenblad modeled and printed Rick's design and passed it along to me. I sanded and prepped the bees for molding and casting. Made the molds, and thus Zombees were born! I then cast the bees in 3 types of resin and passed them back to Rick who very meticulously hand painted each and every zombee in time for ECCC (Emerald City Comic Con) Below are some photos from the process!! You can check out his website Zoms, where the ZomBees will soon be available for purchase. 

Here are the bee parts, red puttied and ready for finishing

Here is the finished bee and base ready for mold 

This is the bee flight pegs, I molded 2 so we could turn around more bees in a shorter amount of time

Here are the wings all spured up and ready to box, again I made a gang mold so multiple bees could be cast quickly

Foam core boxes, pouring sorta clear 37 

Here are the bee flight pegs before cutting open the mold

Molds after being cut open

I wasn't happy with the finishing on the base the first time around so I started over

Base spured and ready for him foam core box

Mold ready to be cut

Multiple bee castings!

The finished bees as I handed them off to Rick

Ricks beautiful paint job on a day of the dead bee!

Rawrztoys update!!

Hello! This year has been busy so far, but I am now having a moment of free time and currently available for freelance jobs. :)

Firstly Rawrztoys!! Everything has been going really great with out toys! We are doing Wondercon in a couple weeks April 18th-20th to be exact and maker faire in May! We have been lucky enough to be feature in write ups by:

Mold 3d

Formlabs

FATHOM 

We also premiered our toy of the week, which is exactly as it sounds, each week we make a one of a kind special toy available until it's sold on our website. 

Rawrztoys Toy of the week

Here are a couple photos of the past few toys of the week

Make Magazine and Rawrztoys

We at Rawrztoys were lucky enough to be interviewed by Make Magazine! They did an amazing feature on how we create our toys. We also have a new store, and website up, which can be viewed at www.rawrztoys.com.

Here's our Make Video.


Toys!
Its been an incredible year! We have officially been a toy company for one year and 4 months! In that time we have shown at WonderCon, DesignerCon, Ape Con (twice), Comikazie Expo, The La Zoo's Comic Jungle, Oakland's First Friday (featured at the Uptown), two Mini Maker Faires, The Petaluma Hobby Expo, Santa Rosa Toy show, 2 Art shows at Dreamworks, and as part of a show at the Detroit Institute of Arts. OH! Plus our toys were available for Purchase in a Little Known Shop in Anaheim. Busy! We will list our upcoming shows very soon on our website. Rawrztoys, Store


About Me!
As for the year, I began it fabricating puppets for Phil Tippett's Mad God.
Moved onto Jim Capabiancos, Leonardo 
Cast Puppets for Lift Animations Henrietta
Created Sophie for Athena Studios "Auntie Claus." With a great team we managed to pull off creating a pitch package in just under 3 months, creating the puppet in less than 2.  From Development to finished product I am extremely proud to have been a part of AuntieClaus.
At the completion of our pitch I was contracted to create molds and castings at Fathom Studios.


All and All its been a crazy year filled with Artwork, insane deadlines, great dinners of Chicken, Green Beans and Mashed potatos, Watching a lot of Badly, awesome movies, and feeling very lucky!