Toy links tagged "McFarlane"
Todd McFarlane changes another industry.
“Anybody coulda painted their toys like I did. There’s nothing that prevented any company for the last 50 years, prior to my entry, that stopped anybody from painting them, sculpting them or designing them the same way.” (YouTube, 41:10)
Jordan Butler, toy sculptor.
“One of the hardest things is interpreting a 2-dimensional figure into 3D space.”
Toys as collectibles.
“To me they’re a form of art … The attention to detail and the creativity. I would say they’re not too far off from sculpture or what’s considered ‘proper’ art.”
McFarlane: artist as toy brand.
“Toys didn’t typically have creator names attached to them before he got into the hustle, so he became the industry’s first — and greatest — auteur.”
McFarlane on the toy industry today.
“… I’m starting to see just a little bit of a pull-back now in some of the big companies, of doing some of the tricks that they were doing 20 years ago to save a nickel, that to me eats away at the quality of the product to the consumer.”
Curse.
An impressive photo by F&E of the Curse of the Spawn II figure.