MUNNY MUNTH WINNER! x2!

the results are in! check out the munny munth contest winners here.

so after stalking the contest for 2 weeks straight, i woke up to a nice surprise this morning.  tim and i checked out the winners and were beyond excited that betso won the grand prize.  his customs are amazing and we loved his entry. super psyched to see/get his dunny design in the new series. after scrolling down we came to my snail garth under the "looks least like a munny" category! yeah!  judged by jeff staple, he said "The character and story line are really defined. You would never guess it started off as a MUNNY."  i'm proud of my garth, especially after the long exhausting hours slaving to finish him in time, so i'm happy to see him be noticed.

i hadn't even considered my armadillo mr grubtini to win anything, but to my surprise, amanda visell judged and chose him for the "best animal" category, one of several categories not previously advertised during the contest.  this is really exciting to me just because she's been my favorite artist since i started collecting vinyl toys, and probably was the reason i even started collecting.  amanda said "I loved loved this category! Everybody did such a great job. The armadillo kicks ass, so much detail the character pops through."  hell yeah!  i have a lot of respect and admiration for her, so it's pretty awesome to have her say that.

so winning two categories is fantastic, and i'm going to continue gloating until i annoy everyone.  weee!

garth and banjo

garth the snail and banjo the frog! it took plenty of long, long hours of sculpting and painting, which wouldn't have been so bad but i wanted it done in time to enter in the munny munth contest.   the deadline was wednesday at midnight, and i had a deadline for the autumn society's 80's toy show, also due wednesday (which i didn't start until tuesday), so i didn't exactly sleep at all this week... but it's all done!  i was a barrel of giggles towards the end of finishing.. i get excited..

i don't have much to say about garth because it will just be a series of sentences declaring my love for him. but he's my pride and joy. i love that you can distinguish the shape of the munny from the side view, but it's not obvious or overbearing. i think he looks a million times better in person...

now please go "like" my garth entry on the munny month contest: http://sites.kidrobot.com/munnymunth/entries.php

he's on the very first page, so he's easy to find :)

garth process!

the birth of garth! i cut off the ears of a munny, then attached the arms to the feet. and several all-nighters and sleep deprivation later, garth was born.

fun part about the shell: i sculpted it, decided i didn't like it, and sanded off the entire side until i fully covered in a nice thick sheet of white dust.  but above was the first attempt at a shell (swirling outwards), and below you can partially see the end result (swirling inwards).

the making of banjo the frog!

garth didn't stand properly and just rolled over so i attached a tiny mirror upside down so it would have something flat and sturdy to keep him from tumbling.

and here's one side of garth, fully attached, with tons and tons of weights in his shell.  his head was so ungodly heavy i had to weigh it down somehow so i just jammed lots of weights, bolts and hot glue into his shell.

and here's a sneak peak of the finished project:

finished product posted tomorrw..  now go find garth the green snail here and give him a "like" !! :)