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Seems pretty solid actually.
Are we free to mock up our own custom ones too? I love painting these things.
Iruka, you know, in terms of vinyl toys, you could design so many cool things based off of your style and drawings (characters and creatures alike). They're totally suited for that kind of thing. Hell, at the least I wish you would do comic illustrations or something. Something of such a matter should really be done with your art, because it's really original beyond the "average" good artist.
Page three has all the files you should need. As for sending some companies my idea... I've been thinking about that. I may at least send kid robot an email asking them if they accept partnerships that way. I'm a little concerned about doing some sort of copywriting as well... I'm generally a trusting person, but Im afraid that may backfire on this for some reason. Any thoughts on how to go about that?
Srsizzy, Thanks! My parents are pushing me to try to make and sell teeshirts, so expect a thread with that coming up soon so I can get them off my back. After I whore out for the anime convention, I plan to make a series of short, confusing comics based on dreams I've had over the years just to practice comic making. So theres that.
How do the legs, ears, and tail hold up? The tail and ears in particular seem like they'd snap off fairly easily.
And if so, how much would you charge for that?
This works as long as it remains unopened obv! hope that useful to you!
I think you said they were 2.50 to make? sell them unpainted for $5-7.00 and make yourself some easy money!
Yes. If the popularity of blank Dunny toys are anything to go by you could do well with this.
In the large scale, it'd be better to get the vinyl run if I had the money to make the investment. Its something that, after I do some research, I will probably put on the back burner as an idea for in the future.
It'd probably entail a few days of work after your classes end (including setting aside a day to actually mail them out) and it seems better than relegating them to the back burner, as that's typically where ideas go to die.
Yes! God, yes!!!
If you're really worried about it but still want to try your luck with submitting it to manufacturers, maybe just send photographs and paint schemes? It might not be a bad idea to try and obtain some phone numbers for companies you'd like to see make Foos, and find out if they have any submission policies. Also, if you go to any big cons, there'd likely be reps you could hit up and show your stuff to as well.
I've never really thought about cons... Baltimore has otakon and a few comic cons, but I haven't seen a toy one. I'll have to look some up.
Thanks guys, by the way. The encouragement really made me confident that I could actually see this through to some level of completion, and even if I don't get some sort of run of toys out of it I have a portfolio piece.
the design just clicks with me
I'd love to have one of the little ones on my desk at work.
I don't know much about paypal or any other online payment service, but would it be possible to easily set up a site to take pre-orders? Then if enough interest was generated to pay for an initial run great, otherwise people would be refunded their cash (less whatever processing fees would be involved up to that point).
There are several websites with with which you may sell craft/handmade/custom items from, and I think it is pretty easy to setup a basic Paypal store/Google store, if you wanted to go that route.
http://www.etsy.com/ is one I believe.
I'm sorry, mt.... Because I was to lazy to learn a vector program, I actually just made the think by hand, so there is no file, save for these blurry pictures of it flat:
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