Wrapping up 2008!
Andy Heng over at the infamous ToysRevil blog (http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/) was gracious enough to grant me a year end interview. It talks about what I've been up to and trying to accomplish in detail for this past year. He even sheds a little light on my new little designer resin toy company Argonaut Resins (http://argonautsresin.blogspot.com/) with a few never before seen images. Thank you Andy and Happy Holidays everybody!! Stay safe and warm and may Santa bring you everything you asked for!
The full ToysRevil interview can be read here:
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2008/12/2008-wrap-up-with-tre-end-argonaut.html

Pierce and Nathan at Vinyl Toy Network!!!
Jeremy Brautman over at Toycyte (http://www.toycyte.com/) dropped this image of the latest Carnival Cartoons duo making their debut at the Pasadena Convention Center on the West Coast this past weekend. This is Jared Deal's and Garnet Syberg Olson's first colorway for these guys. More goodies from that show can be seen here:
http://www.toycyte.com/exclusive-toys-at-vtn-winter-08
Thanks JB!!!

For those that missed out on the VTN show you can order a set of the Dynamic Duo directly from the 3Dretro website at this link:
http://www.3dretro.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14&products_id=1569

My main GoldMane website is being renovated / updated and won't be operational for a bit so bear with me. For the meantime all info and news can be seen here for GoldMane.net - if you have any questions I can reached at eric(at)goldmane.net or arthammer1(at)gmail.com...

Thanks for your patience.

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Sleepy Poo!!!
The Dookie Poo colorways just keep on coming. This one is cute as heck (love those footed pajamas) -


Image courtesy of TomoPop (http://tomopop.com/) and their review - http://tomopop.com/post.phtml?pk=6146&un=Colette+Bennett

Carnival Cartoons Pierce and Nathan exclusive colorway for the Vinyl Toy Network (http://www.vinyltoynetwork.com/) revealed!!! This first colorway of the dynamic duo will be limited to 50 pieces and is exclusive to 3D Retro.

The VTN show will be on Dec. 6th and 7th (Sat and Sun.) at the Pasadena Convention Center out in California. More colorways coming soon...I totally enjoyed sculpting these guys up for Jared and Garnet.

The Carnival Cartoons vinyl toy family just got a little bigger!!! From the exclusive Proto - Monday post up on Vinyl Pulse:

"Pierce and Dogboy are the Carney family mischief makers! Pierce is the quintessential bratty younger brother, and Dogboy is Pierce's pal, a loving pet, and... a fur covered wingman! Pierce relishes his gross-out gig as "The Human Pincushion" in the family sideshow act. (He's got more holes than a boardwalk put-put course). When Dogboy isn't doing double duty as the family's household hound, and Pierce's partner in crime, he wows the crowds at Barker's sideshow with his furry face and outrageous animal antics!"

I really enjoy translating Jared Deal's 2D art to 3D sculptural form - the guy's got his own style and it's a nice challenge to bring them to life. I've seen his colorways for these new guys and they're quite stunning.

What's this??? Hmmm....can't get enough of you know who...

PICANTE!!! - CPK resin toy contest and giveaway on ToyCyte's (http://www.toycyte.com/) CostoMonday!!! How you can grab it? Check it:
http://www.toycyte.com/customonday-win-eric-nocellas-cellphoneskill-exclusive-picante

Special thanks goes out to Jeremy Brautman EIC over at ToyCyte for making this happen...

Going Under Construction Soon...

Hey all -
the Goldmane Entertainment website will be going under the knife real soon. Time to revamp and rebuild to the new version 2.0!!! Some of you may have noticed some changes already (some buttons in the site have been deactivated) and a brand spanking new division has opened up. I'll have a lot of new projects to put up and press releases to go out when everything is up to speed. There will be some good news dropping soon for one of the other divisions as well but I can't say much about that right now.

I also wanted to thank all of you who stopped by to take a gander and keep an eye on what I've been up to (and ran the site hits up past 50 thou). I'll be back soon with a all new look - so enjoy the site as is before we go under construction.

Thank you all...

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Ghost Zero gets picked up by Moonstone Books!!! Congratulations goes out to Dave Flora on his signing with a high profile publisher for his Ghost Zero pulp action series. Can't wait to see the new artwork he'll be dishing out over At Moonstone (publishers of the Phantom and a few other great titles). Check out his blog for more details.

Technology - love it or hate it...been doing some "art to part" tests lately. This is the first of the latest batch so far. A 3 inch in length 1/6th scale laser pistol Rhino CG program sculpt printed out by a 3D printer.

The Buzz and Harriet designer vinyl toys by Carnival Cartoons are in Wonka Vision Magazine #42 with a nice write up! Way to go Jared!!! Awesome news...

My Rhino program dabbles. Decent learning curve for this program and it has one of the best work along tutorials to get you started.

The Dookie - Poo vinyl toy sculpt I did for Manny Galan get's reviewed by Plasticandplush online:
http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/2008/07/review-dookie-p.html#more
Cute little fella. Maybe one day we'll see the Tofu character in toy form too...Hmmm...

The Goldmane blog's gotta new look! I finally got tired of looking generic and thought I'd get to steppin around here and spruce the joint up. Been very uber busy lately with all the shows and conventions (and sculpt work) but I should have some updates soon enough. The next thing I'd like to do is get a little store up and running so look for the store button link on my main website - www.goldmane.net - very soon. Things at Xmoor Studios (www.xmoorstudios.com) have been heating up and munching my time as well. Go stop by the site - it's updated with some new goodies and a few surprises...

Got some Xmoor Studios news - Robert Garrett and myself would like to welcome Matt Beers of Vox (http://sandman.vox.com///) and of Vinyl Toy Freaks fame (http://vinyltoyfreaks.com/index.phpto) to our studio as our new Web Master for the Xmoor Studios website (www.xmoorstudios.com). Matt will be modifying and updating (and hopefully animating) our website content as of today so stop by and check out the updates in progress.

Also joining Xmoor Studios is illustrator extraordinaire N. Steven Harris (http://nstevenworks.com/2005/). Steven has a extensive background in pro comics as a penciller for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and Image Comics. He'll be taking over the reigns to our new Inheritor series starting with issue #2. Issue #1 is complete and will be solicited very soon and it will have some preview pages of Steve's upcoming work on the next book. For those of you not familiar with Steven's work DC Comics has just released the 10 collected issues of Aztek - The Ultimate Man - written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by N. Steven Harris. I picked up my signed copy (see ECBACC con swagg image below) at the East Coast Age of Black Comics Convention this past weekend in Philly and can't wait to read it.

Welcome aboard Matt and Steve!!! Galtow 4 and Inheritors 1 - INCOMING!!!

ECBACC!!! East Coast Age Of Black Comics (http://ecbacc.com/wordpress/) - Sat Mat 18!!! I'll be there with my partner in crime Robert Garrett/ Xmoor Studios...

I'll have a few Galtow posters I drew up for sale, plus a few other surprises -

The New York Comic con was awesome!!! I did a little photo coverage and chat about it sponsored by the Toysrevil blog run by Andy Heng:
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2008/04/down-nycc-2008-with-eric-nocella-diaz.html
I wanted to take way more pictures but I had to work the Xmoor Studios booth and it got crazy busy with that huge crowd that attended. Just want to say thanks to all who stopped by and bought some Xmoor books and stuff from Rob G. and myself. Galtow issue # 4 coming soooon!!!!
See ya next year!

The two funniest things I saw at the convention this year (of course it had to do with Dookie Poo....cracked me up something fierce and made my day):

New York Comic Con April 18 - 20th!!! (http://www.nycomiccon.com/App/homepage.cfm?moduleid=2577&appname=100453)
Here we come!!! I 'll be there with Xmoor Studios (http://www.xmoorstudios.com/) at Exhibitor booth # 1963 along with some special guests Steven Harris who publishes The Fringe : http://nstevenworks.com/2005/
Regine Sawyer of LockitDown Publications who is getting ready to release her book The Rippers: http://www.myspace.com/lockitdownpublications
and Julio Roman of Roman Studios with his Uughs property:
http://www.zstudiosnyc.com/uuughs/index.html



Sneak peek time!!! Galtow issue #4 is under way and nearing completion so I thought I'd drop a teaser of one of the pages:

The Xmoor Studios convention special bust for the NYC con and the ECBACC con right after. Almost forgot about this - my bad...

The finished full color Papa Legba image I submitted to John Jennings - "The Hole" pinup book. My buddy Grimbro drop some wicked colors on my lines really brought the image to life. I told him to run free on it and surprise me - and he sure did! Thank you Grimmy!!!
See more of Grimbro's awesome works here:
http://grimbro.deviantart.com/ and here: http://www.grimbro.com/

The Revenant/Ghost Zero is back in a new color scheme and with spooky blue light up eyes! See more photos of this "one of a kind" here on Dave Flora's Ghost Zero blog: http://ghost0zero.com/2008/03/25/ghost-zero-bust-mod/
Paints and lights by super uber Rick Cantu:
http://www.dragonstoothminiatures.com/

Look who's here!!! Dookie-Poo!!!


Manny Galan's funny little guy is now in vinyl. I did the prototype sculpt a few years ago and it's just great to see the little guy on the loose. You'll be able to get him at the Big NYC con in April plus a few surprises are also in store for this guy. The exclusive with more images was dropped here on Andy Heng's super uber blog Toysrevil (great job Andy!!!): http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2008/03/dookie-poo-made-vinyl-by-chaotic.html
I have a feeling this guy is gonna go quick....could a Tofu be close behind??? I hope so...
More Pooism can be enjoyed here:
http://dookie-poo.com/
and here:
http://dookiepoo.blogspot.com/
Shout out to Erick Scarecrow of ESC Toy on the overseas project management on this bad boy!
Great job guys - never thought I'd say this but Dookie looks good...pun pun...

Comics2film round 3!!!
Dave Flora's Ghost Zero (http://ghost0zero.com/) has made it into the elevator on the Comics2film (http://www.comics2film.com/index.php) website!!!
See the pitch here:
http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=31992&c=22

Comics2film round 2!!!

Another property I've done a sculpt for (Mikhail - scroll down for images of the figure and packaging) has been featured on Comics2film (http://www.comics2film.com/index.php) - Dion Floyd's Immortal Kiss for Graphic Illusion Studios.
The pitch:
http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=31673&c=22

Congrats go out to Dion Floyd for his elevator ride!!!

Comics2film!!!
Xmoor Studio's (my little indie pubilishing shindig with Robert Garrett) flagship comic book series Galtow gets featured on Comics2Film - (http://www.comics2film.com/index.php) in the "Elevator" - http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=31672&c=22

More big Xmoor Studios news real soon!

Neptoon Studios is having a DIY (do it yourself) contest with their all white Crush vinyl toy figures. Too bad there isn't a vinyl toy award show...all Crush needs is that little bow-tie...

Crush DIY vinyls are now available! See the Buy Me link here: (http://www.neptoonstudios.com/shopneptoon.html)
to get your very own...and show us what you've got - creatively... ; )

Send pictures of your original painted version of CRUSH to neptoonstudios@gmail.com

The artist with the most creative and best executed CRUSH will be the WINNER of this one of a kind, signed CRUSH OSCAR!!! And will be featured on the Neptoon's blog - (http://neptoonstudios.blogspot.com/) for all to enjoy.

The winner will be announced - May 1st 2008 ~ Good luck!

What if Skrulls infiltrated your world? What if?

Black and white teaser for the 3rd Galtow poster featuring Jiya I did for Xmoor Studios with Jesse Heagy on the colors...color version coming soon. Hopefully we'll have some full color prints of all 3 posters for sale at the big NYC con in April this year.

A little sneak peek of a something I'm working on for John Jennings Hole pin-up book for charity. I'll post all the info and the full image soon.

Another Goldmane Entertainment project off full blast - From the Immortal Kiss comic book series written and created by Dion Floyd and produced by GIstudios comes the Mikhail Vladimir resin statue and base. Mikahail stands at 8 inches and can be purcased either as a full prepaint or in a solid colored resin cast. This will be a very very limited run and more info can be found here on the GIstudios website:
http://www.gistudios.com/
GIstudios webstore:
http://www.gistudios.com/webstore.html



I'll add more full color pictures very soon so stay tuned!

Been drawing more lately. Keeps the sculpting fresh going to 2D art every now and then. Been also trying my hand at computer coloring too.

Neptoon Studios did a interview with a roving reporter for Toybreak in episode #24 featured here on the Toysrevil blog (thanks again Andy - nice work on the Neptoon only edit!):
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2008/02/toy-break-episode-24-neptoon-studios.html

They actually show the fully painted Crush and Harry designer vinyl toy prototypes I did for them together for the first time. Did I hear them say 3 colorways for Harry??? Niiice...Thanks for the mention Todd and Mark...I enjoy working with those megatalented guys...15 years each in animation?! Yowza! I could only muster up 5 max...

On another few notes:
Dookie-Poo is at it again - funniest blog going right now:
http://dookiepoo.blogspot.com/
Rumor has it there's some wicked looking merchandise in the works...hmmmm....

There's also new hot toy forum in town run by a few pals of mine called Vinyl Toy Freaks:
http://vinyltoyfreaks.com/index.php
Matt Beers was gracious enough to give me a artist corner over there where I'll be posting all kinds of cool stuff AND will be starting up a contest where a new vinyl toy that I sculpted up will be given away real soon. Swing by join up and drop some posts - they have a really cool and supportive group there - and they love toys...

Crush loot!!! Finally got a batch of Crush designer vinyl toys from Neptoon Studios...thank you Todd and Mark!!! Another project I truly enjoyed working on.If you'd like to get your hands on one of these bad boys go here -
http://www.neptoonstudios.com/shopneptoon.html
They have some DIY's too...

The Revenant bust I produced for Dave Flora's Tales of the Revenant/Ghost Zero has been reviewed in this month's Amazing Figure Modeller #40. Dave was kind enough to put this little promo together and send it to me since I can't seem to find the AFM mag on sale near me. See more of Dave's awesome Ghost Zero goodness here:
http://ghost0zero.com/
The unpainted grey resin garage kit version of this bust is still available ($65 plus S&H) and we'll be offering a limited run of fully painted verions (below) of the bust with the release of Dave new printed comic book series.

Some quick turnaround art of Lord Wu Reymos for Xmoor Studios Galtow property.

Some shots of the resin castings for Neptoon Studio's Harry Weinerski vinyl toy proto. See the making of journey here:
http://www.vinylabuse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2909&sid=afcc481b2d60798c22136b3be764b5b2
along with the behind the scenes on the Crush sculpt I did for Neptoon last year:

Color pics up next! I brought in the talented paintmaster Andrew Scribner (painted the Crush toy prototype too) to sling the paint on this bad boy.

Harriet Carney of Carnival Cartoons takes fourth place for best sculpting in PlasticandPlush's 2007 Toy Awards!!! http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/2007_toy_awards/index.html
Buzz Carney got third place for sculpting in their 2006 Toy Awards:
http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/2006_toy_awards/index.html
Just want to say congrats to Jared Deal and Garnet Syberg Olsen (two awesome artists and designers - you guys are on a roll!!!). Thanks also goes out to Plasticandplush for including the Carney toys in their awards and to Erick Scarecrow for overseas project management. That's all you get because my writers are on strike too...no red carpet coverage either...sorry.

Plastic&Plush's Designer Toy Fix Episode 3 features a chat with Erick Scarecrow of ESC-Toy (with an update on the Still Depressed sculpt...) Thanks for the props E!!! The Still Depressed sculpt was quite a challenging project for me to say the least (when you see it in the flesh you'll see why). I had a great time working with Scarecrow on this project - the kid is a wicked designer with some cool stuff lined up for this year.
Picture borrowage from ToysRevil's blog (best blog on the planet right now):
http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/
Got the damn links working right finally.....

I use several painters for all my projects. Every now and then I'll send an older piece out and see what the painters can come up with. Warming up some stuff for 2008...it's going to be a interesting year and I hope I can get most of what's planned off the ground....

My Harry Weinerski sculpt for Neptoon Studios is finally finished. Resins and full color (just been approved!) images next. This designer vinyl toy series is shaping up to be very interesting. Character design work by the uber talented Todd Kaufman -
http://neptoonstudios.blogspot.com/