New Sculpture for The Gnomon Workshop DVD

This piece, as yet untitled, was sculpted for The Gnomon Workshop/Shiflett Bros. DVD which is coming out soon. Gnomon has been super great to us and we wanna thank Alex, David, Robert, and everybody there for all of their help and support. The DVD will be a step-by-step buildup and tutorial featuring me and Jarrod waxing poetic on everything from sculpting techniques to the statue indsutry in funny Texas accents. The sculpt will also be released as a Resin Kit and in a Bronze Limited Edition in the (hopefully) near future.

AFM's Chloe Painted Statue Review

And also in the latest issue of Amazing Figure Modeler Magazine, a review of our Chloe Painted Statue written by the publisher himself, David Fisher. Thanks SO much David and AFM!

AFM Komodo King Review!

Part of the Amazing Figure Modeler Review of our latest kit, Komodo King. (I appreciate the fact that they give us shit about not sculpting faster! I know, I know...we're fucking slow!) Thanks to David, Terry, writer Dan Colonna, and Everyone at AFM!

Shiflett Bros. in ToyFare

Cool full page piece about our original work in the latest issue of ToyFare Magazine. You don't see that much original concept stuff in the magazine, what with all the badass licensed stuff they have to cover. We were really thrilled. Thanks to Rob, Justin, and everyone at ToyFare. Those guys rock!

Cool new teaser image from photog/designer extraordinaire Chad Michael Ward. Simon Lee's sculpt of our character, Ol' Scratch. Complete full color images coming soon. The kit will be released on our site in the near future. Cheers all!

Monsterpalooza 2010

We had a blast in Los Angeles at Monsterpalooza. The sculpting talent in the room was just mind-blowing. We got to meet the legendary sculptor/creator of the Predator/director Steve Wang, Guillermo Del Toro, & J.J. Abrams. We spoke with Oscar winning Makeup FX Artist Rick Baker. Jarrod and I did a Demo Panel for Amazing Figure Modeler Magazine that went reasonably well (meaning we didn't puke on ourselves from fear) and we worked on a very cool jam piece with some true legends of the field. We got to see friends including the amazing sculptors Damon Bard (Coraline), Paul Komoda and Norm Meyers (Artist Proof Studio), and Simon Lee (AKA Spiderzero). And even older friends Airbrush Master Jeff Pittarelli and our Designer/Photog Extraordinaire Chad Michael Ward were in attendance.

But the highlight of the weekend was Saturday Night at Jordu Schell's Studio. We were honored to be invited, along with about 30 others to go to Jordu's drink some beers, eat some pizza and talk shop. Jordu's work is a big inspiration to me and Jarrod. The place is kinda like a Cathedral of Sculpting and the experience for two boys from Texas was quasi-religious. It was great being there with Damon, Paul, and Norm as well as Kit Painter Phil Sera and sculptor Casey Love. Jordu himself was, as usual, a fucking riot.

Thanks to Kimberly, Chad, Norm, AFM's Terry Webb, Monsterpalooza's Eliot Brodsky and everybody who made this trip so much fun for us. Cheers to all!

Brandon

Monsterpalooza

Jarrod and I are heading to L.A. this weekend for Monsterpalooza: The Art of Monsters. We will have kits and statues on display and available. We will have brand new Komodo King Resin Kits, the very first ones from the caster, just in time for the show. We will also have a few in-progress pieces, including the Wayne Barlowe collaboration piece, Thype. We're doing a Sculpting Panel for Amazing Figure Modeler Magazine on Sunday. Please stop by our table and say hi. Warning: we might be drunk for the duration of the show.