A while back I had the opportunity to do some concept work for PetSmart, a very positive experience for me. Great creative people, and also a chance for me to branch out into designing some animal and pet products. At one point I've had as many as 3 dogs, now only my cat. But I adore animals, and I had never been tapped to work on anything more than some chew toy ideas, for an inventor.
Some of the PetSmart projects on which I worked were for focus studies, exploring potential themes and new concepts. As they were for internal use I can't share them publicly, unless some of them hit the market in the future. But some of the reptile climbs I worked on were produced, and have become available for purchase. Very cool!
About half of the concepts I came up with went to market, all things considered, that's a decent batting average. Because of proprietary reasons, I'm only showing those produced. I'm also not including the rough sketches, just the approved designs and renderings. Just a few minor tweaks in their transition to actual product, ultimately a broad variety from which to choose.
.. Aside from not being so toyetic, these had gnarly organic elements, wood and stone, .. I had fun creating a lot of the textures needed for the renderings.
Some of these explored tropical and rainforest themes, others more desert and rocky terrain;
.. A few of these explored the more wild and exotic, like ancient ruins and fossilized dinosaur skeletons;
.. The fossilized dinosaur went through minor simplifications, otherwise the sculpts are pretty close to my initial designs.
Family fun for your entire collection of reptiles!
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