Archive for Illustration Posts

Secret City Illustration

Secret City Illustration

When we’re not designing or making toys, we’re using the magical power of our electronic wizard machines to produce engaging and haunting digital illustrations.

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Blizzard Starcraft 2 Marine

Blizzard Starcraft 2 Marine

Collectible urban vinyl space marine that debuted at Blizzcon.

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Superdeux I Wish I Could Talk Resin Statue

Superdeux I Wish I Could Talk Resin Statue

Digital sculpt of the an original character by Superdeux, used for production of limited edition fine art statues for a gallery exhibit. Figure was sculpted specifically for output and casting as a resin statue.

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Instagram Mascot Vinyl Toy Design

Shinbone makes toys based on fine art, video games, crazy characters AND logos! It doesn’t matter where you find your inspiration, we can help you produce a run of fun collectibles. Concept and design by the supremely talented JC Rivera based on the fantastic Instagram…

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Moonman Urban Vinyl Toy

Moonman Urban Vinyl Toy

This little guy is another character designed to be an urban vinyl style collectible toy. This is a digital illustration rendered to preview how an artist’s paint design would look when the figure is manufactured.

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Misfortunate Travelers Resin Statue

Misfortunate Travelers Resin Statue

The “Misfortunate Travelers” resin statue was designed by artists Chris Ryniak and Jonathan Bergeron for their exhibition at the Yves Laroche Galerie d’Art in Montreal. A few statues are still available at the Shinbone Shop.

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Midori Umi Album Cover

Midori Umi Album Cover

If you love a cute little robot then this painting will electrify your cold mechanical heart. This is a reconstruction of an earlier album cover that was made for the Austin indie band Midori Umi. Fully modeled and rendered using unspeakably sophisticated 3d tools, this…

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Sad Uke Dog Vinyl Toy Design

Sad Uke Dog Vinyl Toy Design

Sad Ukelele Dog was sculpted by Scott Wetterschneider and designed by Shinbone’s very talented associate, Matheus Muniz. Muniz is an imaginative and energetic character designer who we love working with.

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Kaiju Cityscape for “Strange Beasts” Show

Kaiju Cityscape for “Strange Beasts” Show

Scott contributed a portrait of a massive fleshy creature to the Guzu Gallery “Strange Beasts” group show in Austin, Texas. This is a snapshot of the work in progress, showing all of the delicious little details that were built.

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Chug and the City

Chug and the City

It should be obvious how much we love giant monsters around here. We love giant monster movies, giant monster toys, and giant monster shaped snacks.

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Shriners Hospitals for Children Mascot

Shriners Hospitals for Children Mascot

A little guy we made for the wonderful Shriners Hospitals for Children in Canada. We had a blast working with the creative Mélanie Baillairgé at Nolin BBDO in Montréal. She developed the character and the original look of Fezzy.

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DJ Shadow’s “Hard Sell” Jukebot

DJ Shadow’s “Hard Sell” Jukebot

This articulated vinyl figure of DJ Shadow’s mascot was sculpted using digital tools, mostly 3ds Max with a touch of ZBrush. The digital model was printed using rapid-protyping technology and reproduced as a collectible vinyl toy. Sculpts such as this one can be produced in…

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Kaylown the Creepy Little Clown

Just having a little fun around the studio. Poor Kaylown started out cute, but come on, the world is full of cute clowns, along with rather a lot of scary clowns and even a few nightmare-ish clowns. But wee and creepy? Not all that common.

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Sad Uke Dog Vinyl Toy Design

Sad Uke Dog Vinyl Toy Design

Sad Ukelele Dog was sculpted by Scott Wetterschneider and designed by Shinbone’s very talented associate, Matheus Muniz. Muniz is an imaginative and energetic character designer who we love working with.

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Runaway

Runaway

Kaylown has had enough of the big top. He’s turned his back on circus life once and for all. He might be a creepy clown, some might even call him a scary clown, but he has a big heart.

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One Laptop Per Child Superhero Toy

One Laptop Per Child Superhero Toy

Our digital sculpt of this colorful and generous superhero character was used to create a one-off prototype for use in the “Win One, Give One” campaign by General Mills. The superhero 3d model was rapid-prototyped and hand painted and used as the main character in…

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Minky Vinyl Toy Design

Minky Vinyl Toy Design

The crew at Shinbone all share a deep love of toy design and we never sleep. This simpering little monkey, or “Minkey”, if you will, demands attention. If you don’t have attention to spare, he’ll accept bananas. “Minkey” is a vinyl toy design for younger…

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Thoza Giant Monster Vinyl Toy

Thoza Giant Monster Vinyl Toy

We love giant monsters from their noses to their toeses. We love giant monsters so much that even the Shinbone logo is a shoutout to the wonderful world of Japanese monster toys, also known as “kaiju”. Thoza is our first sassy creature with a heart…

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Triple Crown of YoYo Mascot Vinyl Toy

Triple Crown of YoYo Mascot Vinyl Toy

The Triple Crown of YoYo, a contest series for modern yo-yo play, approached us with vector art of their mascot. From their vector art, we were able to create a full 3D digital sculpt ready for output, to be used to create a mold for…

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