Meet Jason Freeny, Custom Toy Sculptor 

Adam Savage’s Tested y

i think most of the questions they ask featured artists are pretty basic and dumb as well. the host, norm, can be irritating in combination with this.

I hate Norm

Cant help you

Jonathan Redmon d

that right...too much seeing people than the art...talking talking and talk..why dont show they made the art...annoying..😠😠

question does he have permission from the companies to sell the likeness, or is there a specific clause witch allows him to use different companies brands?

STEEVEWES me too

NO NOT TOOTHLESS PLZ DONT!!!!!

XD toothless would be awesome!

+osbely Any room will do.

i wish i had friends... I'm so lonely :(

i wish i had a job.... so i wouldnt have to spend all day reading stupid comments ; _ ;

Eatmoretoys

Eatmoretoys

Too bad they didn't talk about the painstaking paperwork...

+AlutaShade Custom figures are a pretty big thing. No licensing involved. They're one-off works of art sold to collectors, not something that's being mass produced.

His work puts it into the realm of "Artistic Parody", which is an interesting subset of the copyright laws and pretty much allows him free reign. He's not producing his own copies of Intellectual Properties, but rather creating an Artistic Commentary upon them. It can get tricky though, and as always, if it comes to a legal challenge it's either back down or see who has the most expensive lawyers...

+AlutaShade I think one-offs are safe under the "artistic parody" clause that CapnsKustomWorks mentioned. But the rule of thumb I observe is that you don't wanna make too much money that the original trademark owners would feel that they're giving you a free ride. Case in point: Disney became aggressive and had lawyers write Etsy asking to remove all sellers' products that had Disney designs on their T-shirts.

+curiousdilettante It's an even greyer area than that. I sell my work on Etsy, and Disney and many of the other "major" companies have their legal teams frequently, or constantly, combing for infringements. But there is no one mecanism for them to "contact Etsy" and have violations removed, they have to issue a DMCA takedown request for each individual item. That's the way the (US) law is written, and it's why many folks complain that Etsy doesn't remove violators, when in fact they have no power to do so, unless the IP holder follows the law very specifically to request it be done.

same!

No I was raised under a rock :( It was a very painful experience... Well... In all seriousness, yeah, it is weird that people find it super creepy.

Yeah I dont get it either, I can see where a small 1-4 might get freaked out, but I can and have also see them take almost everything in stride, look for that 2 year old eating fish eyes video. He loves them! That should be more creepy than this, but I agree there are a lot of rainbow dwellers. We have cookies and shit.

Arbhall McDougall What's wrong with a kid eating fish eyes dude? Eyes are edible and fish is very healthy so I don't see how that is gross. The diet of humans changes around the world depending on the different environments people live in. For example, the are millions of people that eat insects and arachnids on a daily basis (in many cultures scorpions are considered a delicacy and are expensive as fuck). I'm sure you eat eggs don't you? You do realize that you fry an unborn chicken fetus on a pan and then eat it, don't you? That's basically eating hen placenta, and I'm sure that must gross a lot of people out.

I eat eyes too, sometimes nose (pickled of course) I love haggis and only enjoy eggs scrambled or in a cheese free omelette. The list of gross shit I eat is long and tiresome, and some of it I actually enjoyed. But other people around sure do make a lot of noise when Im experimenting with food.

MrToxic I know this is 2 yrs old but eggs =/= unborn fetus some eggs aren't even fertilized-

Prince The puppy ha

Norm is always like this, he's not nervous, but I don't know about the other guy, but to me he doesn't look nervous.

PaladinO that’s what I was thinking hahahaha

That is correct.

And hes great at it!!

"to make them look good". Which is definitely subjective lol, i think it looks weird and is personally not something i'd ever care to see/own. Never have I ever thought "you know I want a toy that shows this fictional creature's anatomical insides"