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We were commissioned by a local company, Shopify.ca, to paint an award created in the likeness of their CEO Tobi Lutke.

We were given a 3d print to start with, but thge print was rough in shapes and so we had to smoothen the whole figure! The head turned out to be a bit bubbly and the eyes bugged out, so we ended up resculpting the head from scratch.

Adding a banner and adjusting the pose, building a base, it all seemed to be necessary and so the project grew!

We completed it in about 1 week, in time to award it to the eventual winner!

It was a very fun change of pace project and I would love to do more of these sorts of projects!!!!


You can see pictures of the 3d print we started with, and more pictures of the process and so on, on our facebook page:
www.facebook.com/MinxMiniaturesStudio

Amazing work. You've got some serious sculpting skills!

The expression on his face is so good it is almost creepy... Nice work!

This has been an oddly received project, not many people seem to enjoy the fact its a light hearted award for fun company!

Im not sure what about the project seems to be sparking the need to comment on realism!

Hahaha, at least you guys seem to enjoy it

He really feels like a toy, which was our given goal, Im quite happy with the final considering we did the whole thing in a week! (crazzzzzy)

Looks pretty cute, haha. Strange that an online shopping site wanted to make a space marine award though

They actually host board game and tabletop gaming nights at their office. They are big fans of games and nerdy things as well.

This was a play on a few things, it was neat to do this sort of work for a change!

Out of interest how big is it?