This Artist Makes Pop-Culture And Movie-Inspired Dolls That You Won’t Find In A Toy Store (31 Pics)

For the figures, the artist mostly uses 3D-printed resin. Sometimes they use existing toys and modify them with 3D-printed parts, electronics, Milliput putty and paint. "For the packaging, I often use a vacuum form machine to make custom clear bubbles and the art is done in Photoshop, printed on photo paper and then adhesived to thin cardboard."

While these dolls are not for sale, the artist revealed that they would love to produce so many of these for other people to purchase. "I have an industrial design background and my wife comes from a manufacturing background so we’ve toyed with the idea of approaching companies to try to acquire the licenses to mass produce some of them. I’ve never been contacted, though, for anything other than commissions of small run or single pieces."

The time to make these dolls depends on a lot of things. The artist shared that sometimes from idea to finished piece it can take as little as 5 hours, "or, like, my Danny Trejo one took over 20 hours to make."

"I have a long list of characters I’d like to make. Just not enough time!"

The artist added that they are starting to add more and more electronics to their work. "I’m currently working on my own version of a Tamagotchi and also a Furby. They’re my most ambitious things to date!" So stay tuned!