I’ve always had a soft spot for steampunk that I never really acted on. A couple months ago PatchTogether asked for contest theme ideas for their toy competition. I brought up Steampunk and it was picked

Here are two of my designs. I could really use a vote! (Register with the site then click on the page, scroll down and pick 1-5 and then “confirm”). Hopefully you’ll pick 5

If the designs have a large number of votes in a month’s time then PT might pick the design to move onto “preproduction” where people can preorder the toy. If there are at least 30 preorders then the toy is created. How cool is that??? It’ll be a super limited toy release and certainly a conversation starter at the office

Well here are my two subjects: Vapore Macchina Insetto and SteamFish

Vapore Macchina Insetto

SteamFish

~Cheers!

I’ve got another design up at Patch Together! This time it’s “Minion”. Hopefully soon I won’t feel like I’m running around like a Mad woman and instead have time to flesh out a few of these characters. Minion was done in about an hour to go along with a quick contest at Imaginism.com. Bobby Chui was interviewing one of the Writing Directors of the movie “How to Train Your Dragon” (excellent movie btw) and they wanted people to create something quickly using the theme “Goth Dragon”. I didn’t want my design to be so narrowly focused to I used some goth ideas and abstracted them out a little. Enjoy! If you’d like to vote for him (I know I’d like you too) Click on the picture!

Minion