Gupified: Series One! A short time ago, Nick Tay, Co-Owner of the Gup Gups, a designer vinyl toy company approached the Modelshop and asked us to customize two of their 15 inch large Gup Gups for display and promotional purposes. Supplied with a blank "canvas", lead Pipeline Artist, Keith Lau took on the challenge of the first Gup to design and put a unique spin to the DIY (Do-it-yourself) vinyl culture. The result is a Steampunk themed Droid.

Look for Pipeline’s second Gup titled, Gupified: Series Two by Howard Lau, Pipeline lead artist to be released in the near future. In the meantime, watch for the Steampunk Droid to make the rounds at various Gup Gup shows and vinyl community websites. For further information on the Gup Gups, please visit their website.

Keith Lau, painting the Steampunk Droid.

The production clay completed for HTXB.

Keith Lau finishes up on the texturing of the Statue Bust.

A while back we worked on a some character development support for the pitch for cartoon network. Pipeline sculpted a clay maquette from Colin Jack's character designs, as well as a digital paint-over illustration to establish facial and clothing details. 

Close-up detail.

Pipeline Modelshop was subcontracted to provide physical reference models for the Sci-fi Network`s T.V movie: "The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon" starring Shannen Doherty and Michael Shanks.

The Quitzcoatl creature head model and arms served as on-set reference for visual effects lighting and scale, as well as, Actor's interaction guide.

Our team contributors were Howard Lau , Keith Lau, Vincent Yoshida and additional fabrication by J.P.

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Early Concept Art- testing the color options.