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August 8th, 2009 
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Tips & Tutorials for Creating Custom Designer Toys
As designers we love to put our creative mark on all sorts of canvasses. Designer toys are a popular way for designers and illustrators to really go to town with creativity, often cutting, chopping and moulding the toy into custom shapes and forms. If you fancy producing a custom toy of your own, be sure to check out these handy resources from across the web, each giving insights and tips into the construction process of a custom toy. First, some designer toy …
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Tags: Designer Toys, Illustration
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Boon Innovative Designer toys and s...Boon design offers innovative designer toys and storage that are award winning from jpma.
Imprint Culture Lab 2009: Designer...
My Toy Collection (Urban Vinyl/Desi...Quick video I made of my toy collection. Hope you enjoi. (Filmed on a Zodak Zi6 @ 720P)
Urban Paper: 26 Designer Toys to cu...Here is a movie about the Urban Paper book... Look at my site: www.papercraften.blogspot.com
Anime Illustration...Mirai-chan illustrated by illustrator Kurot Kurot - moecon.net Mirai - www.dannychoo.com
Madventures Philippines - Flagellat...Scene from Madventures Philippines episode. The amazing holy week rituals in Pampanga provice. Riku becomes a practicing catholic in the most painful sense of the word... More information at www.madventures.tv
Photoshop Tutorial: itunes Style Il...Images & Brushes Links: Texture: www.sxc.hu Car: www.sxc.hu Grunge Brushes: www.brusheezy.com Welcome to this tutorial! We are going to take a look at how to create this cool, fully customizable and editable grungy, dirty, distressed background. We will use a combo of texture, brushing, and blend modes to create a very cool background inspired by a modest itunes Gift Card! Learn about brushing, adjustment layers, dodging and burning, blend modes, texturing, masking, and even a slight touch of the pen tool. Enjoy! Twitter! www.twitter.com Be sure to check out www.tutvid.com Check out the blog @ http
Coopervision Illustration Documenta...This is a documentary that shows Henk's process of building an illustration using Luxology modo
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How to Create the Ultimate Man Cave [PICS]
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Tiny Portable N64 Mod is A Battery Away from Perfect (PICS)
[Nintendo]The Sixtyfree Lite-R features a 5-inch screen, headphone jack, C-button stick, and the smallest case we've seen yet in a portable N64 mod. It's got all the buttons on a traditional N64 controller, which is no small feat, and manages to evoke the same toy-like plasticky design aesthetic as the original console. The only caveat? No batteries.
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Shapeways: 3D Printing for Everyone (Except Little Kids)
[Design]Ever had a really cool idea for something you wanted to build, but you had no way to actually build it? Ever designed a toy or a piece of art that you thought would be a neat thing to have, but your skills at molding plastic or at sculpture just weren't up to the task?
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Intentionally Demented: 15 Twisted Children's Toys [PICS]
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The 10 Most Insane, Child-Warping Moments of '80s Cartoons
[Television]The ‘80s were supposed to be a harmless time for toys and the cartoons that sold them. In spite of this, cartoons sometimes snuck in certain moments that were clearly designed to break impressionable minds and pervert the youth of America. Here are the 10 worst.
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