Gary Ham's sofubi Wooper Loopers unveiled, to be at SDCC

"It’s been said that I look like a lizard,
I’ve even been called a newt!
I’m neither or either, I’m my very own creature,
I’m a Wooper Looper! Woop Woop!

I have toes and I swim, I regenerate limbs,
I think the gills on my head are quite foxy,
Sadly, some people like to eat me, 
They fry me and pair with Sake.

I’ve traveled by air, by sea, and by land,
I’ll be yours, your new little chum,
This outcome you’ll see, as happy as can be,
Brought to you by Chauskoskis and Ham."

Wooper Looper is finally here on his first colorway!
After a long year of productions test and samples by the masters in Japan, Wooper looks so simple, but it give the factory big challenges, like the Gills, and the fingers and toes, mostly because of the small size of them, and the way the vinyl has to be pulled out of the molds, so they had to make some slight changes on the original sculpt here and there, but it came out fantastic, Sofubi toys have some magic, and the fact that each figure is different from one to another, flaws are beauty :D Really excited about having a Wooper in hand next week in SDCC 2012 grab yours fast because these little chums are going to fly out of the shelves!

Gary Ham Blogspot

The Green Spaniel • Chauskoskis • Qee dog

After a long wait, finally i finish a Qee Dog from toy2r!

He is "The Green Spaniel"  he is a face wrestler, dont let yourself be fooled by his angry face!

He is the ultimate rival of the "Monkey Guajardo" a MonQee that i did some months ago.. (you can see him on one of the pics HERE ) 

Por fin! después de mucho tiempo  que tuve esta pieza olvidada, al fin logre terminarla.

El Spaniel Verde (si, es un cocker Spaniel el que se esconde bajo la mascara)  es un luchador técnico, no se dejen engañar por su mirada fiera y el diente dorado, es el archi rival de El Mono Guajardo ambos pronto tendrán un nuevo rival! esten atentos.

Wooper Looper • Teaser

Designed By Gary Ham

Sculpted por Chauskoskis

Prototype

A Gu Gu Bear • Chauskoskis • custom mini Qee Bear

Custom qee for the toy2r world tour in Mexico

I was hearing "yaheard!" show with Ritzy, Kano, Shane Jessup and Sket1, and in some point Shane mention that he likes to do his pieces for custom shows kinda child oriented, because he thinks that in the end we are making toys, and the kids will be the the future artists and fans of the whole movement of the art toy, so for me it make lot of sense that, so that's why i decide to make this custom, not as weird looking or ugly as my characters use tobe, so this guys is more friendly looking, more naive, and yes its more for the kids to like, ireally can imagine a 6 years old kid playing around with this baby lucha bear, so i hope thishelps to bring a new breed of art toy fans... the kids. :)

Para el world tour México de toy2r con la plataforma Mini Qee Bear.

Estuve escuchando una entrevista con Shane Jessup, en ella el decía que el sus customs para shows los hace muy diferentes a su trabajo regular, que el cree que el futuro del art toy esta en los niños y que el hace esas piezas pensando en ellos.A mi la verdad me cayó el veinte de eso, y creo que tiene razón, es por eso que este custom lo hice un poco diferente a lo que suelo hacer, un estilo mas infantil, y mas amigable, ya saben, mis piezas suelen tener cierto humor y estilo un poco oscuro o bizarro... este es un custom que sin duda una mamá le compraría a sus hijos menores de 6 años, ojalá les guste :)

Subcomandante Gwin

Ya tenia tiempo con este Gwin a medio terminar y por fin ya quedó listo

Para ver algunas pics del Proceso de elaboración de este custom... FLICKR

For some Process pics of this custom go to FLICKR

Festival Vida y muerte 2008

More stuff for the past "Festival de Vida y Muerte" in Xcaret, this is a hand program. 

La idea de este programa de mano es que fuera un novenario, para el cual  LF Paredes escribio cada rosario contando la historia y lo  que la viuda de tiburcio pensaba al despedirse de su marido... Buenisimos textos... aqui pongo 3 para que los chequen... a mi me toco la chamba de ilustracion y al buen Ruben Saucedo el armado y organizar chido toda la info y asegurarse que saliera al tiro todo.

Maps For Xcaret Book

Mapas para el libro de Xcaret, Vive México, para el cual hice varias otras cosas, el mapa de los alebrijes esta totalmente ilustrado en photoshop, los  animales fueron tomados de diferentes fuentes de internet y redibujados en  PSD, el de trajes regionales son fotos directamente, solo el volador de papantla trae un efecto de phostoshop. tengo muchos trabajos previos de chamba de "cartografia" en un descuido lo trepo.

These maps are for the Xcaret book, Vive México, i did more stuff there later i upload it.

the map with the "alebrijes" is fully illustrated , the animal figures of mexican folk art were taked from pics around the net and illustrated on PSD