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My Bluetooth Grim Reaper Lead Singer animatronic for Lowe's Halloween 2024.

My Wednesday Addam's Family Thing Light Bulb for Lowe's Halloween 2024.

My Bluetooth Wednesday Addam's Family Thing Radio for Lowe's Halloween 2024.

My Dr. Payne Halloween animatronic design for Party City 2024.

My Dr. Payne Halloween animatronic design for Party City 2024.

A Sponge Bob Squarepants foam bank that I designed from concept to finished product. It was always a challenge to mock this baby up and then work on the specifications on it. There is always trial and error with 3D structures but it was worth it!

A foam Race Car kit that I created that really rolls! It comes with a sheet of adhesive foam numbers to personalize it.

The Christmas House 3D foam kit which features Santa Claus and friends.

This was my first concept and produced toy for a McDonald's Happy Meal promotion for author/ illustrator Eric Carle's children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

A Toy Story 2 Happy Meal design with Woody's finger pointing action! Originally I wanted a "cap" sound effect like from a cap gun.

A Happy Meal that I designed for Disney's Tarzan. You wind around Tantor's tail and the flywheel inside make him "shiver" to convey his nervous characteristic in the movie.

My Little Brother concept for the Mulan Happy Meal toy.

My original sketch and the final product for the 101 Dalmatians snow globe. The live action Disney movie came out at Christmas time so McDonald's had a large number of toys which also could be used as tree ornaments.

One of the foam craft 3D sculptures that I designed and mocked up for Toys R Us. My girly side.

This Treasure Chest that I designed made its way to the cover of a Michael's catalog. Treasure not included.

The Fire Truck 3D foam kit with ladders that come off to play with!

I needed something different for a Halloween design and decided on a Bat House. It's similar to a bird house but I thought it's be fun to hang the bat upside down as they are prone to do themselves.

I always had this idea to create a box into a monster. I can sleep a little better now.

These are the instructions that I created for the Monster Box 3D foam kit for the factory to use to make models to be displayed in stores. Models always help the products sell better when the customer can see the finished product in person.

This is a Pumpkin Bat decoration that I designed that was used at a Kid's Day event at Fibre Craft.

The "Bucket Head" collection is a craft where all of the necessary elements to create a "head" are in the bucket. Foam, google eyes, and cloth help create each different style.

A product line that I worked on at Fibre Craft Materials that wasn't made of foam from corrugated cardboard. The idea behind this was to have a character that a consumer could decorate and personalize in various way. It could be used as a school project, personal card, or simple room decoration.
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A TEXT-UR foam free standing Lion kit that's fun to assemble and that ain't no lion. Sorry, couldn't resist.

A western ringtoss game. I like crafts that have a function after you complete them. I did a series of games for a summer like at Michael's.

SpongeBob ringtoss craft that is a game when completed. The picture frame was added as a combo pack.

I game idea that I illustrated for the inside of a folder. I'm not a big Turtle's fan but I had a blast drawing them!

My first licensed property that I got to illustrate for. This game was printed on the inside of a folder and pennies were meant to be the game tokens. When interviewed to freelance and this company, I was asked if I like dinosaurs. I mentioned that I had just read Jurassic Park which was the truth. I'm a huge geek and planted 2 homages in the game's copy which refer to Steven Spielberg movies. I doubt many people would get both since one is pretty obscure. You get a free folder if you guess correctly.