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Lose Your Head at SDCC – Personalized 3d Predator Statue

Lose Your Head at SDCC – Personalized 3d Predator Statue

What to get the Predator fan who has everything? Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 3d Systems and Shinbone Creative bring your favorite nightmare to life. Using 3d Systems photo based portrait technology, you can have your very own statue of the Predator holding your bloody…

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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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Judge Dredd Digital Sculpt

Judge Dredd Digital Sculpt

We’re massive fans of “The Law” and Scott jumped at the chance to sculpt a character study of Judge Dredd. Readers of the British comic 2000 AD will recognize his unique silhouette and trademark giant green knee-pads. Green is a notorious color to make look…

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Spanky Stokes’ DIY Blank Stroll

Spanky Stokes’ DIY Blank Stroll

John “Spanky” Stokes asked for a smooth DIY version of his hairy mascot. Because we had sculpted the original hairy version digitally, it was simple enough to shave the beast, remove his facial features and clean up the mesh.

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“Monstober” Monster-a-Day Challenge

October is the most wonderful month of the year. Why? Because it’s “Monstober”. What’s “Monstober”? It’s a daily challenge to design a new monster. While a drawing or sketch would have been acceptable, we went the extra mile and sculpted up a new critter most…

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Urban Vinyl Cute Rhino Toy Design

Urban Vinyl Cute Rhino Toy Design

A cute but street savvy rhino character study done as an urban vinyl toy. Created as a digital illustration, sculpted in 3D, and ready to be rapid-prototyped for production and manufacturing. We look up to all the legendary designers such as Tristan Eaton and Jeremy…

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Will a Video Game Model Print Successfully?

Will a Video Game Model Print Successfully?

Short answer – rarely. But patching up the high poly game asset for print is not too difficult. Detailed high poly game models are used for a few reasons in the game development pipeline. For “next gen” titles, the high poly models are used for…

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Tim Stephson’s Creeper Vinyl Toy

Tim Stephson’s Creeper Vinyl Toy

Tim Stephson is an Austin, Texas based designer and sculptor and we are updating his classic figure for a new vinyl release.

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Free Creature 3d Model “Skullbee”

Free Creature 3d Model “Skullbee”

Who likes monsters? Who wants to get their hands on a nice juicy, drippy, lumpy freak named Skullbee? If you’re curious about the magic behind the mischief, grab yourself this file and take a peek. If you’d like to play with the character, go right…

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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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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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Is Self-Producing a Cost Effective Way to Make and Sell Toys?

Is Self-Producing a Cost Effective Way to Make and Sell Toys?

No, producing your own toys is not cost effective – but it is fun! There is a tremendous amount of enjoyment and satisfaction to be had if you’re a designer and you make, package and sell your own figures. Keep in mind, while interesting, it…

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Instagram Resin Figures

Instagram Resin Figures

Here are the limited edition “Iggy” mascots. The good people at Instagram requested a small run to be used as internal gifts. He was designed by JC Rivera and sculpted by Scott Wetterschneider.

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Wandering Misfits by Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters

Wandering Misfits… …made their debut at San Diego Comic Con. This 11 character blind-box set is from Cardboard Spaceship and is made up of collection of fantastic and fabulous characters designed by Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters from Circus Posterus. The Wandering Misfits series was…

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Bubbie the Alien Vinyl Toy Design

Bubbie the Alien Vinyl Toy Design

“Bubbie” is a moderately cute little alien. Designing a cute toy that isn’t too childish can be a challenge, and precisely hitting that sweet zone between cute and creepy is a specialty that our designers can manage every once in a while. As far as…

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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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How Detailed Can a Digital Sculpt Be?

How Detailed Can a Digital Sculpt Be?

There are different rapid-prototyping technologies that print using a variety of processes and materials. The resolution, or the smallest possible detail, is dependent on the specific printer that is being used for generating the physical model. To try and give you some idea of how…

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Brandt Peters’ Resin Greeter Skelves

Brandt Peters’ Resin Greeter Skelves

Kathie Olivas has painted up a lovely set of Brandt’s Greeters for her show.

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Free Monster 3d Model – “Oxymaroon”

Free Monster 3d Model – “Oxymaroon”

Free monster 3d model? Absolutely, come and get the goober and mess him up. Feel free to print him on your rapid-prototyping machine, if you have one! Feel free to customize him or just take a peek behind the scenes to see how we put…

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MadBattleMan Vinyl Figure

MadBattleMan Vinyl Figure

Digital sculpt of an original character by Mike Sutfin for production as a vinyl figure by Reckless Toys.

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