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!

Auntie Claus Stop Motion Teaser

With less then 72 hours left, we are really hoping we make our kickstarter goal. Be sure to check out the 10th update, or if that update sent you here, welcome. It was really great working with Athena Studios, and creating Sophie and I would really love to see this feature take off!

Our Kickstarter Again is here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/athenastudios/auntie-claus-the-movie

Also here is a cool making of photo so you can see the puppet in progress!

Now into toys, ApeCon was a success, and we have the Santa Rosa Maker Faire this weekend! More photos to follow! We are also revamping our elephant toy and he will be available for purchase very soon!

Auntie Claus, Ape Con...

I have spent the past summer working hard making puppets, and toys.

First lets talk about the puppet! Her name is Sophie and she is a young girl living in New York, who discovers a magic elevator. She is based off the character from best selling book "Auntie Claus." Athena studios purchased the rights to "Auntie Claus" and we are now working to turn it into a feature film. We put together a pitch package, and you can for the next 6 days only! Donate money to our Kickstarter, and help fund the next big christmas movie in stop motion!! You can view our kickstarter here:

Give Monies to Auntie Claus here!



Why give Athena Studios, and Auntie Claus your money?

When funding our kickstarter you are in the short funding our pitch package, but in the long paying all the artist who put their efforts, heart and soul into this project, and also funding a new start up stop motion studio. While we want to have Auntie Claus made into a feature, we also want to grow Athena Studios into a 200 person strong studio, that can do all kinds of stop motion work, and other commercial work. I believe in Athena, and this project, and want desperately a studio to call home.
What's great about Athena, is I have never worked with such a passionate group of people who really want to produce good quality and entertaining art. You can get a better look inside Athena Studios, at our make video below (P.S. make it to the end for a glimpse of me and my work station!):



Make Magazine Article on Auntie Claus

In other news:

Ape Con! We will be at Ape Con this weekend,
for more info click here:
Ape Con Website

ApeCon marks the one year anniversary of Rawrztoys starting the convention circuit! We have had a pretty good year, and I would like to thank all of our fans, for their continued support as we grow!
Check back after the weekend for some updated photos!

It's been awhile.. I have been busy!!

Hello! So sorry I haven't blogged in a long time! I have been so busy! What have I been doing?
Well..

Firstly.. i have been working for AthenaStudios, fabricating a puppet for a pitch package. This includes, making the molds, casting the silicone, seaming the puppet, managing the face process, sanding the faces, painting the silicone and finally creating the costume! It has been a lot of work, and I am very excited about the results and cannot wait to share it with you! In the meantime you can track our progress and my bio, on Athena's website, http://www.athenastudios.com/people.html

Secondly.. RawrzToys have been going strong! Ann and I have had 3 shows since May, I will post some photos from these shows to this blog entry. Most importantly we have our toys in a great store called, "A little known shop". This space was started by 3 young woman like Ann and I, hoping to share art with the world. They host amazing events, and are a great addition to the community, as they provide music, crafts, food and artwork to adults and kids alike. We have been in their store since June, and will be there a few more months.

Thirdly.. I have finally updated the website, it can be found at www.victoriarosepuppets.com

Lastly.. The puppets I made for liftanimation.com are animated and posted! I mixed silicone colors, cast and seamed the robust lady in the logo, and cast, seamed and painted henrietta, they have a kickstarter ending in 8 hours, as seen here Henrietta Kickstarter

I can't wait to share more soon!

We premiered our giraffe toys!!

We also premiered our elephant toys!

Some Rawrz fans at the La Zoo's comic jungle!