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Introducing: Skully Wooden Stackable Toy

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a simple wooden skeleton toy with a smiling cute face in the center of a black stage.

SKULLY WOODEN TOY

A grid of all the elements of the toy project. A happy skeleton made of wooden blocks
I worked for 6 months on a set of 20 hand made stackable wooden skully toys with a friend in his basement.

At the start, I had no idea how to cut wood, make things in 3d, paint. I just knew I wanted to make something special related to Skully with a friend.
Through documenting the process and sharing the struggles and story as detailed as possible, these sold out in a week, with more than half of them selling in the first hour.

Above is a short video showing the hand made creation process.
Each toy is nearly identical, with the exception of his hat.
Each hat has a unique painted design on it.
a bunch of heads of the skeleton toy lined up on a desk
I made a series of YouTube and social videos detailing the process in 60 second bites ranging from the concept and story, to cutting wood, painting, and packaging.

You can see that playlist here - http://youtube.com/@bonehaus
IDEATION / DESIGN
a mash up of sketch and final result of the skeleton wooden toy project. showing process.
Every order came with a screen printed yellow shirt matching the skully toy with sewn hem tag.
a process shot showing the sketch of the character design into a simplified wooden toy version.
I prototyped everything out digitally first. Modeling the character in Blender 3d software
a blender render of the skeleton toy for prototyping reasons.
WORKSHOP PROCESS
We converted my friends janky basement into a woodworking shop. Basically just hammering wood together on the walls to make it feel less like a basement.
skully center stage as a wooden block toy with two other versions in the background.
skeleton wood 3D Character Packaging package skull collectible toy
Each toy came with a pin, sticker, and certificate of authenticity. Numbering the toys 1 through 20. This all wrapped up in a screen printed nylon bag.
I'm available for new projects
https://bone.haus
skeleton wood 3D Character Packaging package skull collectible toy
Introducing: Skully Wooden Stackable Toy
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Introducing: Skully Wooden Stackable Toy

A wooden skeleton stackable toy based on a character I created named Skully. This was a full process from idea and sketching all the way to scree Read More

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