Foosh, Giant Turtle World, Kinoko Family

Hello everyone!

Here are some of our projects for 2024. :)

Foosh 25 year Anniversary Celebration Figure. More detail coming soon with release details. We are very honoured to be part of their celebration.

Giant Turtle World commission. Thank you for this project to a wonderful collector!

Watch Maker Janky Custom for a collector. Thank you very much for this project!

How awesome is this! Huge Kinoko Family mushrooms in Taiwan by Akinori Oishi. So proud to have modeled these for Akinori and now through Blue Dragon Art, these have been made into huge inflatables.

2023 updates

Hello everyone! Sorry for not updating for a while. We have been busy with finishing projects and working on some new collaborations we can’t talk about yet. :)

For 2023, I have also taken on a more teaching role, showing Betty how to 3D model on Zbrush. Hopefully in the future, Betty can take over more of the 3D modeling process and I can focus on the designing aspect. I have also been busy with providing private art classes, which has been very rewarding.

We hope you are doing well and that 2023 has been treating you kindly. Looking forward to sharing some of our future projects soon.

Preorder for Kinoko Family by Akinori Oishi

Kinoko Family designed by Japanese artist Akinori Oishi celebrates family connections and closeness.

Kinoko means Mushroom is Japanese. Similar to a family, mushrooms communicate and bond through their mycelium root network. What is visible above ground is a small fraction compared to the memories and stories shared through time that are not visible.

This project started at the beginning of the pandemic and it is fitting we honor our connections with one and other. We thank Akinori Oishi for his patience, attention to detail and artistic professionalism.

Additional info:

Designer: Akinori Oishi

Production: Okedoki and Betty

Medium: resin

Limited edition of 12

4 figures in the set. Packaged in a custom wooden box with sliding a lid. Beautiful box art is designed by Akinori Oishi.

Height: Father is 4.5 inches, Mother is 4 inches, Sister is 3 inches, baby is 2 inches.

Price: $285 USD

Preorder is November 9th at Noon EST at Okedoki’s shop.

Akinori Oishi’s profile

Akinori is an internationally acclaimed multimedia artist from Japan. He studied fine arts at Kyoto City University of Art, and later developed skills in multimedia at IAMAS (International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences / Japan). By his project of IAMAS, winning the New Talent Competition Award at MILIA (International Multi-media Fair in France) in 2001, he moved to France in order to continue his artistic career there. His work was featured in the opening exhibition of French contemporary art museum, Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He later served as a guest lecturer at ECAL (Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne / University of Art and Design Lausanne) in Switzerland. In 2004, Akinori returned to Japan to teach at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. Since his return, he has been active in the Japanese art scene, illustartions, and advertisements with Mitsubishi Electric, Uniqlo, Coca Cola Japan.

Akinori’s innocent-looking characters are always affable to us for both children and grownups. In 2011, Akinori became the first Japanese artist featured on the cover page of Open Sky magazine on board Emirates Airline. In addition, he also worked on the Jingle animation for Yo Gabba Gabba 2010, Nickelodeon (US), and has been a regular guest speaker at Pictoplasma conference New York and Berlin, as internationally recognized for character art and design. In 2011 he was selected one of the best character artists of Asia (CUTOUT Magaizne / Malaysia) 2011.

In these years he works also for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Jury members of Hiii Illustration Competition 2016 (Nanjing), Art Toy Figures / FluffyHouse (Hong Kong) and Syntrend department store, Fubon Art Foundation (Taipei).

​Japanese :

​大石暁規(おおいし・あきのり)

1972年、大阪生まれ。

京都市立芸術大学油画専攻、IAMAS 岐阜県立情報科学芸術アカデミー(現在名:情報科学芸術大学院大学)メディア・ラボ科修了。卒業制作インタラクティブ・イラストレーション作品が、カンヌ国際マルチメディア見本市Milia2001で新人賞ニュータレントを受賞。その受賞を切っ掛けに、渡仏。ヨーロッパを拠点に活動を始める。今では、伝説的なクリエーティブ・デザインスタジオとなったTEAMCHMANへ参加。イラストレーション、アニメーション、キャラクター・デザ イン等の多岐のデザイン・プロジェクトに従事。その傍ら、スイス・ローザンヌ州立美術大学(ECAL)でのメディア&インタラクション科にて教鞭をとる。

帰国後は、アーティストとして独立。名古屋造形大学や、多摩美術大学などでも講師を歴任し、教育に携わる。その純真無垢なアートのイラストレーション世界観は、ちいさな子供から 大人まで世界中の人々を魅了し、アラブ首長国連邦UAEエミレーツ航空の公式フライト誌 「オープン・スカイ」の表紙イラストレーションを日本人として初めて飾った。その他にもアメリカ子供向け人気番組Yo Gabba Gabbaのアニメーション制作など。欧州スロベニアでは、アニメーション・フェスティバル Animateka 2014(アニマテカ)にて、メイン・デザインを担当。国際作品コンペ審査員としても携わる。欧米では世界的注目度が高い、キャラクター・アート最高峰/国際カンファレンスPictoplasma(ピクトプラズマ・ベルリン)へ幾度となくゲスト・スピーカーとして招聘されている。

この近年は、欧米の他、アジア諸国での活動も多く、特に台湾では人気が高い。富邦藝術基金會(フボン銀行アート基金)やデジタル家電総合デパートで有名な三創生活パーク、ゲームソフト会社ガマニアなどのイベント・マスコット制作や数々のプロジェクトに関わる。

韓国ソウルでは、2014年の個展開催の後に、松坡区役所の才能寄与プロジェクトにて、ソウル市内の中学校にて壁画を制作し、感謝状を授与された。

​自身のデザイン・アイデンティティー、アイコンとなっている「アキ・スマイル」が世界の人々と幸せを分かち合えるよう、創作活動に励んでいる。

Thank you Mike Sass!

Big shout out to Mike Sass for supporting our studio and working with us on another project. If you are not familiar with Mike Sass, definitely check out his amazing art here. Mike is a master oil painter and we are so honored to have met him. His etsy store can be found here.

Mike at our studio with Okedoki crew Jake and Kylar to pick up his coasters.

Mike at his booth at Expo 2022 in Edmonton.

A print from Mike of his painting. Just WOW! We received no 1/500. :)

Assembling the coasters with inlays and foam backings.

Finished coaster at Mike’s booth at the Expo.

Samuel preorder: March 9 at Noon EST

We are very honored to bring Samuel to life by talented Kansas City artist Scribe. Samuel will be available for pre-order on March 9th at Noon Eastern Standard time. Samuel stands at 8 inches of solid resin and comes with removable mushrooms (that he is very proud of picking by the way!) and bag. There will be 20 produced with each being numbered and packaged in a wall-mounted wooden box. Retail priced at $395 USD. Special thanks to Alisa Ross aka 40 Threads for making Samuel’s bag.

Scribe’s Bio: Donald Ross also known as “scribe” is 37 years old and currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri of the United States. The animated, public murals by Scribe are readily recognizable in Midtown Kansas City and throughout different part of the United States, Canada and down into Mexico where he has both painted murals and had gallery shows. Scribe incorporates a menagerie of animal characters developed over many years representing a particular, self-referential trait that he inserts in various scenarios. Scribe intersperses personal iconography, biblical and fairytale references, animation and metaphor in works intended as contemporary parables for public audiences, hence the use of his artist name and persona. Through accessible idiom and image, Scribe incorporates humor and play in the conveyance of serious messages regarding personal integrity, attainment of knowledge, and adventure. In the past five years scribe has been focused on a diverse career in art. He is currently the Art Director at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City where he does everything from graphic design, painting murals throughout four locations around the metro and managing large scale design and installation of a Terrazzo Flooring project.His most recent project was airbrushing the hospital owned Lifeflight Helicopter.Outside of his duties at the hospital Scribe paints murals around the United States and has been in gallery shows on both coasts and throughout the Mid-West, Canada and Mexico City. Apart from his gallery work Ross/Scribe has also had a children’s book published called “There’s an Octopus Under my Bed” sold in Barnes and Nobles and stores across the country which has recently sold out. He currently has two more books in progress due to be published in 2012. Scribe’s last focus in the past year has been on what is called the Urban Toys where he has had several figures released and sold out in 2009 based on his signature character “Rumpus” the rhino and “Sumego” an egotistical beaver. In 2010 the Resound Fields mini figure series was released and was made up of seven of his characters and several larger characters with Cardboard Spaceship out of Santa Cruz and Bic Plastics out of China. With the release of his children’s book and being a recipient of the Charlotte Street Fund Award, Ross/Scribe has done readings and small workshops with kids in book stores across the country to discuss the process of his illustrations, murals and story methods while also doing live painting demonstrations. He has also spoken in many High Schools, Libraries, and Youth Centers around the Kansas City Metro area and in Cincinnati,Ohio and Chicago, Illinois.