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Come to the Dark Side, Valentine

February 10th, 2012 by Ben Howard

I’m a little behind in posting up all the new sculptures I’ve done in the past couple weeks; I have wanted to stagger them so it doesn’t seem like I’m pumping them out one after the other in a mad fever. That IS what I’m doing, but I don’t want it to seem like that. This one I completed last week, on Friday I think, and it almost already seems like years ago that I made him. He’s a version of Magus from Chrono Trigger that I guess shows up before you realize he’s a bad guy? I don’t know, I never played it. That fact feeds itself into the mysteriousness of the character’s pose here. Can you see/feel it?

Feel my mystery

Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Posted in New Scuplture!, Uncategorized | Posted in | Tagged Chrono Trigger, Magus, Valentine's Day | Leave a comment

Not everything groundhogs say is true

February 2nd, 2012 by Ben Howard

Now my time is split precariously between catching up on commissions /working on projects and proving that I’m still alive (h’lo folks!) all the while trying to maintain my slow progress in Skyrim. I’ll be working on a sculpture or casting a bunch of stuff and then feel a pang of guilt because I left an NPC hanging when I told her I’d deliver a letter for her or I still have to retrieve some dead jerk’s horn for a bunch of crusty guys on top of a mountain. Why won’t they LET ME LIVE?!

I did manage to get this done in the betweentime.

Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Posted in New Scuplture!, Uncategorized | Posted in | Tagged Groundhogs day, Metroid, Samus, Skyrim | Leave a comment

There’s a new bot in town

January 19th, 2012 by Ben Howard

Do you ever plan to eat a candy bar? I do. I think about it like a day ahead and go, “Twix’d be good right around now… Tomorrow.” Twix is especially a good choice because it knocks me out on the first one, then I have to put the second bit in a drawer. If I’m lucky I forget all about it until the next day when I find it and decide probably it’s still good. (Hint: most stores sell these bad boys for a buck and a half, but the GOOD stores do a 3 for 2 dollars thing? (Hint: just buy one, there’s no way you could eat 3 Twixes and then leave the other bit in a drawer before one goes probably bad))

On a related note– The word’s got to get out, I’ve released several items directly for sale on etsy and in the shop section, so check out those outlets for your Fizz Man Industries needs.

S’wiggitywiggitywiggityWACK

Rating: 5.0/5 (2 votes cast)

Posted in Chess Sets, Indie Toys, New Scuplture! | Posted in | Tagged Etsy, Mega Man Chess, Mega Man X, planning ahead, Twix, Vile | Leave a comment

Slackin’ Around Again

January 17th, 2012 by Ben Howard

I woke up and felt a strange sensation that I was forgetting something today. I went downstairs and into the kitchen and forgot why I went in there, so I went out and went back in but couldn’t get a handle on it. Then I went back up the stairs, but miscalculated the number of steps so I did that thing where you feel like you know you can fly but have forgotten how to. THEN I REMEMBERED: I need to build a new stair-step.

THEN I REMEMBERED: That wasn’t what I forgot to do. ScrewAttack reminded me though, that I said on camera that if you go to my site there would be a Flash Man sculpture ready for viewing. Well, I rushed back downstairs to where my computer used to be, but I forgot that I sold it for a novelty corncob cellphone. So now I’m at the library and feverishly posting this so that I’m not made out to be a liar! So, check it out, ScrewAttackers!

Or are ScrewAttack patrons ScrewVictims?

Rating: 5.0/5 (5 votes cast)

Posted in MAGFest, New Scuplture!, Press Coverage | Posted in | Tagged anomia, Flash Man, I Can't Fly, lack of short term memory, magfest, ScrewAttack | 2 Comments

493 in 2012

January 12th, 2012 by Ben Howard

I spent most of yesterday organizing my pictures, which is the computer equivalent of alphabetizing my CD collection (or the Jon Arbuckle equivalent of categorizing my sock drawer) and realized there are a lot of sculptures I never put up on the site– not because I’m lazy but because they are from years ago and they are a little rough around the edges. I reserve the right to hide my early work and just show off the stuff I like. Maybe in the future I’ll publish a book of things I’m not proud of, with a big picture of me on the front with a chunk of egg salad stuck in my hair.

Anyway, I got this number: 493. I’ve made a lot of copies of bob-ombs and Shy Guys (but I didn’t count resin casts) and each individual chess piece that I hand-sculpted, of which I’ve done seven now. I was amazed when I was counting ‘em up, because the number was getting up there and I still had folders to root through. All I need is 7 more and I get a FREE SUB*!

*free sub with purchase of any sub of equal or lesser value

Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

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Big MAGFest Project Announcement!

December 30th, 2011 by Ben Howard

The time has come to drop the biggest project I’ve been working on for MAGFest 10: Mega Man Chess!

I said I’d announce this by Friday night, so I gotta dash this off in the next couple minutes or I’m OUT OF BOUNDS. This new set is gonna be shown off for the first time at MAGFest 10, so make sure you get yourself to National Harbor next weekend! I promise this set is the best Mega Man Chess set that you can find. On Google images. Thus far. Here are some more shots:

More shots of individual pieces to come. Also, I’ll eventually get a more dazzling board but for now we’re on the vinyl placemat. LOOK AT THOSE PIECES!!!! (not the board!)

Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Posted in Chess Sets, MAGFest, New Scuplture! | Posted in | Tagged Bass, Dr. Light, Dr. Wily, Mega Man, Mega Man Chess, Megaman chess, Rush, Treble | 4 Comments

Candy Cat Calmly Washes Its Face.

December 29th, 2011 by Ben Howard

OH BOY… MAGFest is a mere 7 days away and I’m feverishly finishing up as many projects as possible. Sorry to those who tried to get in some last-minute Christmas gifts from me, I want to make sure I’ve got enough of a table to WOW the gawkers and lookers-on this year at my table!

I did, however, get a call from Tim Ekkebus of X-Strike Studios who wanted a Candy Cat from the Dragon Quest Series. Since I can’t say no to Tim (because I’m very, very scared of him) I got down to business on his project straight away! Don’t let the date of this post fool you, though– I did it like three weeks ago but didn’t say anything about it until now because he wanted it to be a Christmas secret. Now I’m pretty sure Christmas is over, but these days you never can tell the way televesion never shuts up about it. Is it over?

I keep saying I’ll unveil the big project before MAG on the site, so I will. Tomorrow night I’ll put up the gallery of my latest invention! Be there!

And go to Candy Cat Land!

Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)

Posted in MAGFest, New Scuplture!, Works in Progress | Posted in | Tagged Candy Cat, magfest, Mystery Thing, Tim Ekkebus, X-Strike Studios | 1 Comment

If you can believe it, I made a sculpture

November 21st, 2011 by Ben Howard

Gotta keep moving after Los Angeles and the Proximity Show. I got a call to put together this tidy little character– can you guess what he is or is doing? I can’t. But I will lay my life down for his right to be it! (and do it!)

Beyond these projects, I’m getting my next big release ready. With the Zelda set behind me (and the press of it being well and truly milked) it’s time to get the next set out. Though I don’t want to be considered a one-trick pony, I don’t much care– the subject matter of this next chess set is something a lot closer to my heart than Zelda, for sure. I won’t say just yet what it is (and some of you already know) but I promise it’ll be 1) better than that other one and 2) playable with standard chess rules. LET THE RUMOR MILL BEGIN!

Rating: 5.0/5 (3 votes cast)

Posted in Chess Sets, New Scuplture! | Posted in | Tagged Captain Olimar, Mysterious Chess, Nintendo, Pikmin, What could it be? | Leave a comment

DesignerCon and a New Dude!

October 31st, 2011 by Ben Howard

I’ve been bad at posting lately because I’ve been slammed with getting ready for the big DesignerCon in Pasadena this weekend. I’m trying to get together as many figures as possible and the process is daunting! I’ve never been so daunted!

Here’s a shot of the table with most of the pieces I’ve turned out. I’m successfully getting resin casts of Haunts made, and now I’m under the thunder trying to get the little twerps painted.

While I’ve been working on these the Proximity Show has been up and torn down, with some tidy sales from that! Amid the fervor to get all these ghosts taken care of I managed to work up a Spyro the Dragon for someone who took a liking to my stuff at the gallery.

Tonight’s Halloween! All year I was ready to get messed up as Beetlejuice (particularly the version where he is dressed as Alec Baldwin in the graveyard) but I’ve been, as previously stated, daunted. Now the plan is to dress up as 1) a burrito for a free chipotle burrito 2) a can of paint for a free can of paint 3) a book for a free library book. Really I’m just going to dress up as the errands I have to do today.

Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)

Posted in DesignerCon, Indie Toys, New Scuplture!, Works in Progress | Posted in | Tagged DesignerCon, Haunts, Proximity, Spyro | Leave a comment