about triclops studios' lefty custom for diy calamari
TOYSREVIL: what is the name of your custom, gents? and what is it's toy-story?
TRICLOPS: Tales From The Trypt is our ickle homage to 'Tales From The Crypt' - the 1950's EC comic line ... i fink we were still on a Halloween tip when we had the idea but, to be honest the monster / horror ting is a rich vein of influence within Clops HQ what ever time of the year !TOYSREVIL: horror-24/7! what was the genesis of your custom?
TRICLOPS: no genesis really mr Evil . . . the skull was the first ting we saw in the Lefty shape & this was boosted when we heard Chris (from The Tarantulas) only needed his Lefty head [featured] - so we quickly piked the legs & mashed 'em together to create a complete skull! The idea of creating a minimal custom was also something which really appealed to us - usually we go to town with detail but, the thought of creating something kool & minimal (without spending a fortune on milliput, sanding paper, spray paints, etc) might be different for us ... and who knows : maybe inspiring to peepz thinking about giving customs a go.
TOYSREVIL: sometimes "simple" is uber-effective, gents! and this works swell for me! (lemme know when ya have a sexy "witch" lined-up for a photo-op muahahaha) - cheers for the exclusive 1st-lookie+sneak-peekie, gents, and in closing, please share with us; Who Is Triclops? and what are you guys currently up to? (rubbing hands in gleeful abandon)
Triclops Studio is an independent UK Design Consultancy owned by ex-Hasbro designers Rob ( Apeman ) & Luc ( Robotboy ). during the day we freelance for some of the bigger toy companies of this world but, by night we create, draw, colour-in, spray, cut 'n paste on designer toy concepts & our own projects. currently we've got a few ' toy irons ' in the fire - the ones we can mention are Qee's & Trexi's [interviewed] ... we'd love to spill the beans on the other ones but we can't : our nutz would be toast !all we can say is '08 is shaping up to be our biggest ( and hopefully our best yet ! ). we promise you'll be the 1st to hear about them mr Evil !
check www.triclopsstudio.com for all things " Consultancee " & our blog blogclops.blogspot.com for all the latest Clops news, adventures & ramblings ! thanks mr Evil : u're da mang !
Nice work fellows.
ReplyDeleteBut surely this is Boney from the wonderful Trapdoor!
Those Triclops boys are making some series customs these days!! They are a force to behold this coming year methinks!
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention Boney Dok! That was the original plan, we were gonna do a tribute entitled 'Trip Door' but Boney's face is a bit longer and we're sticklers for the details.... we are doing a Tales from the Trypt Comic cover to accompany this one, hope it makes up for the loss! Cheers for the comments Dok and George :)
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