Little Wonder Studio

Tinkerbelle, Disney, Digital Sculpture

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:34:00 +0000

Tonka Truck, Digital Model, Little Wonder Studio

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:32:00 +0000

Will I Am, Black Eyed Peas , Digital Prototype

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:28:00 +0000

We all Lived In A Yellow Submarine, Digital Sculpture

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:24:00 +0000

Prototype Sculpture. Sculpted prototypes

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noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:09:00 +0000

Our Favorite Ogre!

Over the years we've had the pleasure of designing and sculpting several SHREK products. The image above shows some of the things we've done.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:58:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:54:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:41:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:04:00 +0000

We love this item! Dumbo was sculpted to be a bubble blower. We really enjoyed this sculpture because it gave us a chance to work with a really classic property and with one of our favorite licensors.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:54:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:07:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:57:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:58:00 +0000

This sculpture is a combination of a milling material called "Ren Shape"

and sculpture wax for the eyes and mouth.

It takes the skills of a machinist and a traditional sculptor

to bring this Lightning McQueen figure to life.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:10:00 +0000

All This AND....Muppets!

Here is Miss Piggy, I think this job was for a hair brush.

Kermit is a coin bank.

It was one of those impossible deadlines,

you know.. 30 sculptures in 20 days.

I dont know how we managed it but we did.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:28:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:11:00 +0000

Koala Brothers and their airplane.

This job is featured on our website

in the digital services section as a digital model.

What you see here is the completed prototype

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:07:00 +0000

Yes! It is the prehistoric Squirrel from "Ice Age" and "Ice Age 2". The folks at Blue Sky did such a great job designing this character it was a pleasure to sculpt him!

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:02:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:27:00 +0000

This is a digital model we put together from scratch using stills from the Movie "Robots". This is the character Rodney and you can see he is still in progress. Using digtal technology is a help to us because it shortens the process of production. We can make really accurate models quickly and easily and spend less money on molding and casting materials

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:10:00 +0000

This is a large bas relief tray of our good freind Jack Skellington.

It was made bt one of our clients to be a place to display candy

when trick or treaters come to the door.

We of course love any chance we get

to do Nighmare Before Christmas products!

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:34:00 +0000

Mister Incredible next to a quarter!
This is a sculpt in progress and you can
see at least two different colors of wax
used on this sculpt.

Soap on a Rope

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:24:00 +0000

Judy Jetson as a soap on a rope! This was a real design challenge for a few reasons. reason number one is that Judy has a big head with skinny neck, arms and legs. Reason two is the end product was going to be made of soap, a relativly soft substance without much structural integrity.

Keeping these things in mind we produced the designs above trying to make what should be thin areas thicker (Look at how we positioned arms, legs and props to support her thin body parts) and maintaining character correctness by having her do things her character would normally do.

noreply@blogger.com (littlewonder) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:19:00 +0000

Does everyone out there recognize the Golden Snitch?

It looks a little different when it's pictured

as a bas relief in pink sculpture wax.