[youtube_sc url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9USEtUDgydw" title="Who%20really%20created%20He-Man?"] As a freelance toy designer this looks fascinating to me. It's a trailer for Toy Masters, an upcoming documentary about a long-running dispute over who should get the credit for creating He-Man and the whole Masters Of The Universe juggernaut. It's clearly a low-budget effort but judging from the trailer there will be a good mixture of conflict,...
One of my regular clients is DecoPac, Inc., a local company that designs and manufactures many of the toys you find adorning the birthday cakes at your local grocery store bakery. Most of my work for them involves licensed properties (Mickey Mouse, Toy Story, etc.) but every once in a while I get to create something completely from scratch. Last year...
Last year I was hired by one of my regular clients, DecoPac Inc., to help with a Minnie Mouse toy concept for Disney. It takes a long time for a toy to do from original concept to final product so I'm just now able to reveal it. The client showed me some misc. graphics provided by Disney including some "Dress Shop"...
One of my regular clients is a toy company called DecoPac. Among other things they design many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in grocery store bakeries. They also create various toys and novelties to put on top of the cakes, often tying in with licensed characters and brands. Last year they commissioned me to develop some concepts...
Here's another concept I worked up for DecoPac, a local company that manufactures licensed toys for specialty birthday cakes. They told me they were working on a cake design for Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" and asked me to work up a couple of rough concept sketches to help them sell it to the folks at Disney. They wanted one...
One of my regular clients is a toy company called DecoPac. Among other things they create many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in the grocery store bakeries. They often develop fun themes using licensed characters to tie in with movie and TV franchises. On occasion they will hire me to develop toy concepts for some of the cakes....
