I've always wanted to make toys ever since I was little, but I didn't know what the responsibilities are involving toy making or creating action figures. Now you have things like Sideshow Collectables and resin statues and so forth and I was wondering...is there a careers page for doing this? Where would I apply? haha This…
There are a couple guys on the zbrush forums that do toy sculpts. Most are more of the statue or squishy vinyl type than articulated toys though. And someone on here (can't remember who) made some stuff for Ashley Wood. It can certainly be done, but you'd definitely need to make toys your focus, not low poly. You can check…
I think it's more of a make your own job position, you can sell stuff on Esty, shapeways, and kickstarter, or find a company that makes figurines and toys.
Here's a forum for traditional toy sculptors. http://www.statueforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=32 For places that do 3D prints I would just shoot them an email and see if they have work. There are a decent amount on kickstarter.
I don't think there are many full-time jobs for toy/statue/mini work. There is a lot of freelance work floating around though. You can find some miniature game companies that require cg artists on kickstarter. I've managed to get toy work with just a game art portfolio, so I think you just need to demonstrate good…
I just saw an online article talking about what goes into making the Transformers toys, and it looked like they clearly made them in 3d at some point to test the transformations and all of that. Wish I could remember where the hell I saw that. There's also this: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88735
Did you have a chance to ask him why he couldn't be bothered to credit them on the packaging somewhere? After all that was one of his reasons he left Marvel. (Sorry, back in the day I wanted to work for him, but the above left a bad, bad, taste in my mouth. I had much more respect for Clayburn Moore) Did some toy sculpting…
Huh. From what I could see, Todd was always really respectful to the artists, at least to us on the enviro and lighting teams. He frequently would say he wanted to see some of the artists gain exposure from the project, via spotlights or art books or whatever. That said, he knew his name was a marketing asset and was…
Yea word of mouth and random freelance will pop up on forums. Seems fairly common on the ZBC forums. I don't know if I entirely agree with that. You just need to show that you can use Zbrush really... you don't even have to be that good for most miniatures below 5cm. "Art Toys" like MacFarlane and larger ones like that is…