so i’ve been busy packing cookies over the weekend, all 20 Fortune Tellers ready to go within 24hr!! set your alarm, fix your clock! heres the release time recap:
Monday, September 30, 1pm Pacific Time / 4pm Eastern Tim / 9pm London Time. (Oct 1st 4am HK Time / 5am Japan Time / 6am AUS Time, 9am NZ Time)
…check out the video above, that may give you some idea how the fortunes works! :)
heres the 2nd and final part of my Fortune Teller toy W.I.P, enjoy! :)
continue from where i left behind, fortune teller’s sculpt is down to his eyebrows, pencil marked where they should be as guide…
ta-da~ completed the original sculpt of Fortune Teller(a.k.a Master Bing)
preparing for the first side of mold making…
building lego walls, always a fun part!
pouring silicons into it, looks like Fortune Teller is drowning in the gooey silicon pool, did he predict this fate?
mold A side done! preparing for B side…
Fortune Teller revived from the mold making! he knew it all along…
back in the lab, mixing chemicals, pulling hollow casts, this time i took the advantage of the way how i cast my figures, they are hollow, therefor i could slip a message inside every fortune cookie!
birth of the Fortune Teller army!
mixing custom color, with a real fortune cookie as reference…
airbrushed first coat of “cookie color”…
second layer, “burnt cookie color”! sometimes i prefer slightly over baked cookies :P
hand painting his eyes, before going for the final protection coats…
…and the Fortune Teller was born! 20 of these fortune cookies will be up for grab on Monday, September 30, 1pm Pacific Time / 4pm Eastern Tim / 9pm London Time. (Oct 1st 4am HK Time / 5am Japan Time / 8am NZ Time)
some has guessed it right! my upcoming resin toy will be a fortune cookie(releasing end of september), the inspiration came indirectly from last HK trip, no i have not seen any fortune cookie in HK, nor is it originated from asia, i suppose the memory of HK, the stereotype image of chinese temple & fortune teller on the street gave me the idea to create this character! and this is how it’s created…
many fortune cookies goes into my tummy…for the sake of research! oh, and pages of sketches at the same time!
building the bone with foil paper…(i know it looks more like a croissant)
cover the skeleton with dough(sculpey)!
keep building and shaping till it looks like a fortune cookie…
side view of my cookie!
sculpt his little legs & ass-hole* (no, seriously!)
make some paper templates for the face :)
lift the surface for his mouth(lips?)
template for his mustache…
adding eyes & mustache :{
nose & teeth! face is almost there…. :{B
this is the fun part, slowly & carefully sculpt his two arms without template or guides!
and this is what his little hands look like up close!
….to be continued! ;)
so its been awhile since i’ve release any new toys, so what happened to Rottey? (if you still remember…) or whatever toy i announced earlier?
well…things hasn’t been easy on my end this year, during the making of Rottey, the only toy material supplier in NZ closed their business(R.I.P topmark), that left me with nothing to work with, and during this time searching and waiting for replacement material/new supplier, new toy ideas has never stop coming, by the time i got all the materials, i’ve developed & skipped like 2~3 toy ideas already.
on the bright side, i get to experiment with new/better resin products, thanks to TAS for let me try their awesome new products! and during my timeout with toys, i have the chance to explore my other dream(besides toy), this remain a secret project for now, hopefully i could share this other dream project of mine by the end of year! ;)
anyways, with all materials in hand, progress on target, i’m confident to say my new toy will drop in September!
…can you tell whats my next toy?! more pics very soon! :-)
