Got Craft?

Got Craft?, originally uploaded by cutesypoo.

this sunday we are selling our wares at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall on Commercial drive in Vancouver BC.

be there at 11 am and claim your free swag! (only the first 30 people)

get your christmas shopping done and support local business and artists.

NEW Spring Gnomes for SALE

Musseloom enjoys a spring day in the woods

potato plush

potato plush, originally uploaded by goldenrusset.

in honor of St' Patrick's Day i made this green eye'd Potato plush guy. if y'all like it , i may make more to sell.
Let me know!
9" wide and 5" tall (not including the legs) and made of fleece and felt.

yone_01

yone_01, originally uploaded by goldenrusset.

yone_02

yone_02, originally uploaded by goldenrusset.

eyeinthesky

eyeinthesky, originally uploaded by goldenrusset.

here be some gnome art. what thoughts have you on this matter?

Gnomes now on sale!

hurry over to the Cutesypoo Toys online shop and grab yourself a gnome! 

they are going fast so act quickly

everyone who buys one will get a special gift

its a set of 4 mini papertoy gnomes! print em out and put em on yer desk for some extra happiness!

Cone Gnomes for sale Friday March 6th

Cutesypoo Toys will be releasing 7 cute cone gnomes for sale on friday March 6th 2009!
they will be available at 12pm on their Etsy online store

Handmade in Canada and printed by Spoonflower.com 

there will also be one rare Angry gnome available for that grumpy puss out there...

learning Maya 3D animation- first try

I've been trying to get in to 3D animation to expand my skillset an open more chances for work. It took me a while but i finally had a chance to actually animate a character. i found a clip from an old peter sellers movie and animated to it using a free character i found online. take a look.

i'm going to do some more soon to add to my portfolio. it won't be enough to get into Pixar... but maybe a local studio will take a chance on me.

eskimo ice-cream!

it's been a while since i've posted anything.... been busy doing stuff that can't be posted here. but!

i just finished some new plush toys for another gallery show.

it's called "Freezer Isle" at Phantom Gallery March 14th in L.A.

from what i understand they are going to fill empty store windows with art displays.. so i'm not exactly sure where it will be.. but you can check HERE for more info.

So i made these... ICE-KIMOS! basically ice-cream eskimos (i know it's not entirely politically correct, but Ice-Cream Inuits just don't have the same ring) 

they are in the colours of  Neapolitan ice-cream... which looks better than it tastes (i'm an ice-cream snob)

Now for sale at Cutesypootoys.com

You can now purchase your very own Musseloom from the Cutesypoo Toys website! he's only $25.00 (usd) plus shipping. hurry and get yours now before Christmas!


BUY HERE

Monster Plush now for sale on ETSY!

If you head on over to Etsy.com you can find my monster plush for sale through the Cutesypoo Toys Etsy shop!

Made with various types of fabric and each with its own unique theme, they range in price between $45 to $50 each (plus shipping). Remember, each is a one of a kind handmade work of art. Once these are gone.. they're gone! 

Cutesypoo toys soon to release Musseloom!

Cutesypoo Toys are proud to present, MUSSELOOM!

coming next week! Musseloom plush toys will be released through DKE toys. they were designed by yours truly and manufactured by ESC toys.  just in time for Christmas! 

stay tuned for more news!

Happy tree friends new short!

I again had the pleasure of contributing some animation to another Happy Tree Friends, Ka-Pow! short. this ones called "Splendid’s SSSSSuper Squad : Mirror, Mirror" I have to say, the whole thing came out FANTASTIC! kudos to Roque and all those involved for such a bang up job! but coming from Ghostbot, i'm not entirely surprised.

My sequence starts at 1:48 and goes until, 2:15. yes, i destroyed a couple of endangered species. it was fun.

PLUSH IT

Serena Kuhl's group plush show, PLUSH IT is under way down in AUS at the Ruban Rat gallery in Sydney. If you're in the area, go check it out.. and check out my piece, Rick Licorice as shown below.

*UPDATE!* you can now buy the pieces in the show off the Ruban Rat website HERE!

SUPER POWER TIME FORCE!

I recently had the pleasure of creating a song for a compilation album that my good friend Hobo Divine produced. It is now available on ITUNES only ten bucks! thats plenty affordable...and you can listen to previews of each song. My song is "SPTF! - Closing Credits" under the name GET!

the concept was to make a piece of music inspired japanese hero TV shows from the 70's and an image made by Hobo Divine. So check it out... then BUY IT! it's completely independently produced and all revenue is divided equally amongst all the artists.. so you know your money is not going to some big mean corporation.

Stop motion tests

I never thought I would get into this... but i've become obsessed with stop motion animation.

My wife and I have been commissioned to make a short stop motion film for an upcoming project which will remain nameless for copyright reasons... but I thought I would share my first attempts at this new craft. 

this one was my first try. I just wanted to do a quick test to see if I could actually do it. I found an old robot sculpture I made like 8 years ago that had wire arms I could pose. i dusted off my old DV camera (used only once) and downloaded a free iStopMotion software trial. the lighting is quite bad and I had no real purpose other than to make it move... so don't judge me too harshly.

this next one I actually tried to create better lighting and used my wife's Canon digital camera. I downloaded a trial of Dragon, a great little stop motion program developed by the guys who made the United Airlines Dragon commercial (yes it was all stop motion), it can control a digital camera so the resolution of the frames is much much higher than using a stinky old DV cam.. plus its reasonably priced at around 250 bucks.

 I used an old plush doll my wife made a long time ago that she didn't care about.. stuck in some 20 gauge steel wire from home depot (which i do not recommend since it is too springy and does not hold its position well). I tried attaching the feet to the table using magnets... but i found that even though i used  super strong rare earth magnets, which you can barely pry apart, it still was not strong enough for balancing at precarious angles. So for the short I will be using bolt and screw tie-downs. 

 So I made it move... again with no purpose other than to test my own ability to make the thing move. (the table kept moving and i wasn't concentrating on it very much... so it's not my best effort).

my dad and I are working on a proper steel armature with ball joints that will give me the ability to do much more subtle movements and be much sturdier, you can buy armature sets online.. but they are pretty expensive, luckily my dad has a workshop and knows all about metal parts, so we are making our own from scratch. i'll post pictures of it later.

WEBSITE UPDATE

hey i finally figured out HTML and remade my website www.goldenrusset.com ! it looks much better and has a nicer navigation. plus new images! go check it out.
as you can see here i also updated the look of the blog. now it matches the new website. ooh so co-ordinated!

Turkey Lurkey Time!

well today is Canadian Thanksgiving... so i think this is appropriate. even though its technically a christmas song.