Here's yet another toy design I worked on for novelty cake supplier DecoPac. It's a cake tie-in for the DreamWorks movie Monsters vs. Aliens. It's a little hard to tell from the photo but it's a figurine of the Insecto character and two plastic finger rings featuring the characters B.O.B and Missing Link. The background is a concept painting from the movie...
As I mentioned in a recent post I sometimes design novelty toys for DecoPac, a national leader in the cake industry. Often the toys involve licensed characters but sometimes they are more generic. For this project the client wanted to update the design of their "Sports Fan" cake. I'm not a sports fan myself but I would imagine this particular...
For over a year now I've been designing toys for a company called DecoPac. They create many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in the grocery store bakeries, the ones with little plastic licensed characters on them. They offer a wide variety of quality cake designs for all occasions, and often develop fun themes using licensed characters to tie...
It's been a while since I posted any actual artwork on this blog. I've been cranking out artwork like crazy all spring and summer, but because of NDA's and other client arrangements I haven't been able to show much of the work publicly...
A few months ago I was hired by Peter Green Design to develop some toy ideas to pitch to Disney. I was given a list of possible toys based on three Disney properties (Little Einsteins, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and My Friends Tigger & Pooh) and asked to do a rough concept sketch for each. A few were chosen to be...
I've been super-duper-crazy busy lately with freelance work. I've had several large projects on my plate for a while now, and the deadlines are all converging within the next two weeks. With freelancing everything seems to happen at once. Illustrator Tom Richmond put it well on his blog: "Part of the problem with freelancing is that you never know...
