Space Monkey Al is a go!!!
I just got word from Charlie Mewshaw that his Space Monkey Al figure got enough votes to be added into the PatchTogether order on demand store! If he get's 50 pre-orders they will produce his figure. If you'd like to order one - here's the link to all the info at the online store:
http://www.patchtogether.com/?Product&pId=85
Congratulations Charlie! (Color image below from Plasticandplush's website - http://www.plasticandplush.com/plasticandplush/2009/03/space-monkey-al-on-demand.html

I also got the green light from Charlie to drop a few images of the Al figure after I sculpted and cast it up in resin for him.

The Argonaut Resins toy crew will be in this upcoming Resin Collective art show starting April 11 - May 9 featuring work from resin toy artists from around the globe hosted by Red Hot Robot.
http://www.redhotrobot.net/

Just wanted to say congrats to Jared Deal who landed a interview and picture session with Cookies and Cream. Check out out some of it here with lot's more photos: (http://www.bakedinny.com/2009/02/stay-true-jared-deal/) Nice to see all the Carnival Cartoons vinyl toys I worked with Jared and Garnet in some of the shots - sweet!!! Picture below borrowed from the Cookies and Cream site...Way to go JD...

Xmoor Studios news.
Here's the Galtow animated CG teaser trailer we debuted at the big NYC con produced by Shimmer Concepts Media (http://www.shimmermedia.com/)

Check it full size:


http://www.xmoorstudios.com/GaltowTrailers.html

Step right up!!!
Get your Pierce and Nathan the DogBoy vinyl toys from Carnival Cartoons available to own right now - right here:
http://www.jareddeal.com/
Jared Deal has some Harriet Carney's left too for sale and if you twist his arm you may even get a uber limited Buzz Carney from him...you didn't hear that from me...wink wink...

See you at the New York Comic Con -
Booth # 948...

The latest Xmoor Studio news:

2009!!!!
Welcome everyone to our first Xmoor News update of the year.
Xmoor Studios has been low key on the information sites as Eric and I have been working tirelessly to develop our Intellectual Properties and take the next steps towards getting a bigger audience to embrace our books. Xmoor Studios will be at this February’s New York Comic Con (Feb. 6 - 8), at BOOTH # 948, sharing a space with our traveling partner the fantastic illustrator Steven Harris creator of the BrotherHood of the Fringe, and artist for countless fan fave books for Marvel, DC, Image and other publishers. We will also be there with our new partners in crime Shimmer Media who are developing a sensational teaser trailer for GALTOW using 3d CGI effects. Here’s a taste of what will be seen at the show:

We will also debut The GALTOW trade edition at the show… Issues #1 & #2 have been colored and given a whole new attitude. We have also included issues #3 and the unreleased GALTOW #4, along with some under goodies and pinups:


There is so much more going on and Eric and I will be updating everyone very soon on those news fronts but for now look, enjoy and hope to see some of you at the show!
Thanks
Robert Garrett
Eric Nocella Diaz

New York Comic Con is only weeks away. With that in mind Carnival Cartoons will be releasing the next colorway for their Pierce & Nathan set of Carney curiosities. The Carnival Cartoons PURPLE exclusive will be limited to just 100 PCS!!! Notice the logo on Pierces shirt... a combination of skulls, elephants, & flames! In case you haven't noticed each colorway will have a unique logo on the front of Pierce's shirt & the back of Nathan's. Pierce comes complete with actual piercings! Carnival Cartoons will also be offering quite an array of other items you'll want to get your hands on including... skate decks, prints, plush, & resin.
Not only that, but they will also be having a few friends stopping through to do signings!!! So be sure to stop through Booth #964, you're not gonna want to miss this.
Purple Pierce & Nathan is the second color release of the figure & will be available at Comic Con. If you are interested in the other Carney characters to complete your set (Buzz and Harriet) please contact DKE Toys (www.dketoys.com) to place your order.
"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 putt-putt 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!"
Pierce stands aprox. 5.5" tall while Nathan stands at 4"
Set will come complete w/ signed mini print!


Just want to say a big thanks to Jared Deal and Garnet Syberg Olsen for letting me sculpt up their exciting toy line. I hope we do a few more of these awesome figures!!!

As promised!!! Charlie sent over some new paint master images of Al the Space Monkey toy proto I did for him. Nice to see Charlie throwing down with the paints - hey all keep voting for Charlie, he's over 50 votes so far to get Al made into a toy. Go Charlie!!!

Vote for Charlie Mewshaw's Space Monkey toy design to go into production on Patch Together!!! Vote here:
http://www.patchtogether.com/?Designs_Details&Id=848

I did this sculpt a while back for Charlie and was wondering what he had in mind for it. So now we know. So come on folks let's help Charlie get his toy made!!! When Charlie gives me the green light I'll post more images of the Space Monkey (and yeah that banana accessory can be removed from the curled tail...heh...) Can't wait to get a few more shots of that paint master myself - great job Charlie!

The coolest toy commercial ever made - by Rotofugi - the FLCL Canti designer vinyl toy I did for Ka-ching Brands gets a wicked cameo in this bad boy -

http://videolog.uol.com.br/video.php?id=366488

Now go buy some designer toys -
http://rotofugi.com/toyscart/pc/home.asp

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/