I was a little bummed when @four_horsemen_studios didn’t make a Ghost of Christmas Present this year after releasing the Marley and Christmas Past ghosts for the last few years. So I decided to make my own! This started as a Princess Bride André the Giant figure and turned into a full custom figure over the course of about 4–5 days. It’s still an action figure! Its arms still move! Swipe for final shots + some making-of details (including the very subtle chest hair). Now I can display them with Death from Bill & Ted as a placeholder for the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come! Still got to figure out Scrooge though.

I’ve been playing with frame by frame animation in Procreate Dreams. Then I saw @donalleniii bring Dreams animations in to Adobe Aero for AR. So I gave it a shot. This is a really neat use case. And I can do the whole process on my iPad! #adobeaero #procreate #procreatedreams #Nessie

Feed me, Seymour! 🌱 Swipe through for some progress pics. ——> So, we've been listening to 'Little Shop of Horrors' a LOT lately. Inspired, we decided to dress as Seymour and Audrey for Halloween. I even got this crazy idea to make an Audrey 2 puppet. It's the biggest thing I've ever tackled. And (probably a surprise to people who know me), it's my very first puppet. I tried my hand at airbrushing and played around with EVA foam before but this was a new level for me. My basement looked like a craft explosion for weeks. I wish I took more photos along the way but I got really into it. The last few weeks felt like a flow state blackout. I'm the type who usually has a bunch of unfinished projects, so pulling this off feels pretty huge for me. Still can't believe I did it! I’m excited for whatever I build next! #littleshopofhorrors #audrey2puppet #puppet #handmade #movieprops #halloween #halloweencostume #airdryfoamclay #Audrey2 #PuppetMagic #SeymourAndAudrey #CostumeCrafting #Halloween2023 #BehindTheScenes #MovieInspired #HalloweenCostume #CraftyCreations #HorrorClassics #diyhalloween

Welcome to the future. It’s big enough for all of us.

Saturday morning family sculpture! Daliasaur! Sculpted by Dalia, @maximum.derek , and @alongwithdevon . Art direction by Dalia. Made out of #sculpey #babydal #familysculpture

Snow day project! I had to stop because it started getting dark. This was a lot of fun. #totoro #myneighbortotoro #miyazaki #babydal #snowday #snowman #snowcreature

I think this is the last of our Halloween drawing sessions for this year. This time it's some old McDonald's Halloween McNuggets. These are some of Dalia's favorite Halloween toys. @alongwithdevon #babydal #halloween #McDonalds #happymeal #happymealtoys #mcnuggets #mcnuggetbuddies #familydrawing

This month we've been drawing some of my Nightmare Before Christmas action figures. I love seeing how we all interpret the same thing. @alongwithdevon #babydal #nightmarebeforechristmas #disney #halloween #diamondselecttoys

STATION! I've been watching the Bill and Ted movies to get ready for the new one coming out. I've seen them a bunch before but I never really appreciated how weird they were. It's one thing to have a two loveable idiots traveling though time and heaven and hell. Then a couple of little aliens show up playing charades with Einstein. Turns out they're the smartest beings in the universe and can build robots out of hardware store supplies. Also, they combine to become one giant Station because of course they can. This project turned out to be more challenging than I expected. I've never really sculpted or painted something like Station. There was a lot of learning and a couple attempts to quit. I'm not 100% happy with them but I'd rather be done than keep thinking about it. Painting two things to be sort of identical is annoying. I just made Station. The Bill and Ted are from @necaofficial #billandted #billandted3 #billandtedfacethemusic #billandtedsexcellentadventure #billandtedsbogusjourney #facethemusic #alexwinter #keanureeves #smokeyandthebandit3 #zbrush #zbrushsculpt #anycubicphoton #3dsculpting #3dprinting #3dprinted #customtoys #customactionfigures #neca #necatoys #beexcellenttoeachother

I'm done painting Mokey Fraggle! I painted her first because I wanted to try out my airbrush. I haven't really used it before so I was thinking her robe would be an easier target to hit. I still made a mess. So I went back to painting with brushes. In the fifth picture I put the Palisades and Diamond Select Kermits next to her. I was trying to scale my Fraggles somewhere between the two Muppet toy lines. #3dprinting ##anycubicphoton #3dsculpting #zbrush #jimhenson #fragglerock #fraggle #themuppets #muppets #mokeyfraggle #kermitthefrog #palisadestoys #diamondselecttoys #customactionfigures #clothsculptingishard #imisspalisadestoys @donnakimball319 @hensoncompany

I finished sculpting Mokey last night and printed it. This was my first attempt at sculpting something like a robe. I still have to wrap my head around how all the cloth folds are supposed to work. The folds are kind of hard to see here. Maybe they'll be more visible when I paint it. #3dprinting ##anycubicphoton #3dsculpting #zbrush #jimhenson #fragglerock #fraggle #themuppets #muppets #gobofraggle #booberfraggle #customactionfigures #clothsculptingishard @donnakimball319

My latest print finished this morning. It's Gobo from Fraggle Rock! The sculpt was done over the last few nights. The Boober fraggle in the second pic was done earlier. I might reprint him. He seems a little small compared to the new one. Next up is Mokey! #3dprinting ##anycubicphoton #3dsculpting #zbrush #jimhenson #fragglerock #fraggle #themuppets #muppets #gobofraggle #booberfraggle #customactionfigures