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Showing posts with label limited edition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label limited edition. Show all posts

Monday, 9 July 2012

Slim Pickings - Limited Edition Launch

OddCo and Peter Underhill are delighted to launch a brand new limited edition figurine today, in the much sought after form of 'Slim' the skinny looking sunbather and his hungry friend.

"I'm sorry mate, I thought you were dead?!" 


Check out some below sculptors bench images of the offending article...







Each Slim Pickings bear has an individually hand numbered limited edition disc and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Slim is a club members exclusive...

Check out the final figurine here...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

KAPOW! PRINT PART VI

"Don't slip on the jam!
The thing about blood in a mainly blue-lit room, it'd look black. So I had to make a little compromise.
In a day or two, this should be dry enough to scan, when I can complete the artwork with the border and caption."




"I might need to sign these with a silver pen."

PG


Tuesday, 1 May 2012

LIMITED EDITION KAPOW! PRINT V

"Almost there. Just to add the blood and some minor tweaks."


Monday, 30 April 2012

KAPOW! PRINT PART IV

"I decided, because the thin layers of acrylic (glazes) are drying patchy, to continue from this point in oil paints. It's OK to paint in oils over acrylic, but not the other way round. The moonlight through the windows was the first oily bit."



"Working with 'moon' colour and the creepy blue downstairs glow. Using oils means it can take a while for the paint to dry. This can be frustrating when you need to work over the top of something you've already done. Hopefully the painting will be dry in time for the comic gig. Gulp!"


Thursday, 26 April 2012

KAPOW! PRINT PART III


"Once the shadows are in place, I started working on the forms as if there's a single light source, above and behind the viewer. Here I've worked on the overalls and the mask."

"Adding colour to the fur and the stairs, not wanting to have too much contrast in the stairs because they could dominate the image."
"Dropped some basic shading into the bannister and railings knowing that the secondary and tertiary lights will be acting on them quite heavily, so just establishing the structure for now."
"I decided the rag doll should have socks. They somehow suggest innocence. I still need to add the seams to the legs. We wouldn't want any sensitive types thinking this is a human or anything."
"If you check against the early visual, you'll see how the image is going to be cropped on all sides. At the bottom it will be part way through the green dress, so that blue area at the bottom right won't appear."

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

KAPOW! PRINT PART II


"First step is putting in the dark bits. This is just sploshing down layers of dilute acrylic to create the places where there's least light, or a dark base to start building the form."


"There are three light sources I need to consider, a general colourless ambient light that will allow me to give some colour to the shapes, a cold blue light in the bottom left, then the moonlight through the window top right. There's usually a point in most paintings I do where I ask myself "What the bloody hell have I done and why does it look so shite?" That moment is fairly soon."

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

LIMITED EDITION KAPOW PRINT!

Hey Folks! For those who didn't know, Bad Taste Bears will be attending the Kapow! Comic Con in London this May 19th/20th! For more news on the event and all happenings follow this link.

In preparation for the event, Bad Taste Bears creator Peter Underhill has been working on a Limited Edition Myers Print which is now available to pre-order here.

Great news for all fans of Pete's artwork, as he has invited us in to his Shedio (half studio/half shed,) to give us a preview of the work in progress and to watch the master at work. Thanks Pete!

So here's part 1. Enjoy.


"After establishing the composition with small thumbnail sketches, I dumped the sketch through Photoshop and played around with colour values, lights and darks to arrive at the rough you've seen." 




"Next stage is to draw up the image to a size comfortable to work. In this case, approx A4."



"I've already prepared a board with an overall blue onto which I transfer the drawing.
The next part is getting the paints out. More soon."



Part II to follow soon...

Monday, 20 February 2012

DOD & GEM - ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR

We all love a good ride here at OddCo Ltd, favourites including the Big Dipper, Hall of Mirrors (makes some of us look perfectly normal) and what about the Dodgems!?


Peter Underhill seems to have some pretty odd memories of the fair if this feisty figurine is anything to go by...

Limited Edition Dod & Gem launches this Wednesday 22ndFebruary at 6.30pm, available ONLY to club members (why not join here.) Coming with the usual number and signed certificate of authenticity, actual quantity of figurines will not be announced until it is dispatched to customers...

PLUS order this Wednesday and any additional items purchased at the same time will be given 50 bonus reward points each!

Thursday, 16 February 2012

BEARZILLA LAUNCHES TONIGHT!!






This bad ass lizard is the biggest thing to land at BTB towers since… Well ever!?

The first ever totally original 16” Giant BTB, Bearzilla Limited to only 100 World Wide will be hitting these shores at the end of February 2012.

Bearzilla is Members Only and Limited to 1 per member - multiple orders will automatically be cancelled and refunded

Bearzilla will be available from the Members Exclusives section of the BTB Online Store at 6:30pm Today, 16TH February.

You will have 2 products to choose from:

Pay in full – Immediate payment of £135 and receive Bearzilla at the end of February

Split payments – make an immediate payment £67.50. The balance payment will be taken on Friday 16th March and Bearzilla with be dispatched within 14 days of payment completion.

Please note that this special bear is reserved for MEMBERS ONLY. If you're not a Club Member, click here for the full benefits and details on how to join.

Bearzilla is only available for UK delivery from www.badtastebears.com - if you are ordering from outside of the UK please contact us for distributor details.

Monday, 12 September 2011

BAD TASTE DEATHS

With the exciting news that limited edition figurine Natural Causes, will be launched tomorrow night (13th Sept at 6.30pm) we thought we'd have a Bad Taste Bears top 10 horrible (idiotic) deaths, for your sick pleasure.


Enjoy...

1. A circus act in Romania ended in tragedy on 23 January when fire-eater Vlad Cazacu, 43, belched in mid-performance and was blown to bits. Incredibly no one came to his rescue as stunned onlookers assumed this was part of an amazing illusion. Consequently this unfortunate man, who probably could have been saved, was allowed to just lie there and die.

2. Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes. The plugged-up pachyderm finally let fly. Standing next to his elephant, Mr. Riesfeldt suffocated under 200 pounds of elephant manure. Investigators say Riesfeldt, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an enema when the beast unloaded on him.

3. A German couple in their 50s took their old car to a scrap yard. They parked, completed the paperwork, but got back in the car to shelter from a sudden squall of rain. "The driver of the crane was told to process their car", said a police investigator. "He did so without realizing that the couple were sitting inside again." The car was grabbed by the crane's steel claws and dropped in the crusher, which normally reduces cars to a small cube. It was stopped when the crane driver heard the woman's screams, but it was too late to save her husband. The crane driver was hospitalized for shock, but was expected to be charged with "negligent manslaughter".

4. Johannesburg, South Africa - A young Saudi man, camping with two friends on top of a mountain, was killed instantly when he took a call from a friend on his mobile phone during a storm and the phone was struck by lightning.

5. Christopher Pane, 34, and an un-named woman of 25 drank 11 bottles of beer and then went on a sexual romp in the sea near Darwin in Australia. They had intercourse in the water when the woman decided to go underwater for a different activity. Pane became excited, put his hands on her head and kept her submerged. Micheal Carey, prosecuting at Payne's trial in the Northern Territories Supreme Court a year later, said Pane told police that when the woman stopped sucking, he wondered what was going on, so he let her up. She had not tried to get up and wasn't kicking or splashing. When he realized she was dead, he "freaked out", dressed and drove away. He was arrested two days later and during his year in prison had constant nightmares and was treated 12 times for outbreaks of boils. Pane's counsel pointed out that the woman might have passed out from drink: she had consumed six times the legal driving limit.

6. Normandy, France - Jacques LeFevrier left nothing to chance when he decided to commit suicide. He stood at the top of a tall cliff and tied a noose around his neck. He tied the other end of the rope to a large rock. He drank some poison and set fire to his clothes. He even tried to shoot himself at the last moment. He jumped and fired the pistol. The bullet missed him completely, but cut through the hanging rope instead. Freed of the threat of hanging, Mr. LeFevrier plunged into the sea. The sudden plunge into the freezing waters extinguished the flames and apparently made him vomit the poison as well. He was dragged out of the water by witnesses on the beach below the cliff and was taken to a hospital, where he died of hypothermia.

7. Toronto, Canada - Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building’s windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength many times according to police reports. Peter Lauwers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was “one of the best and brightest” members in the 200-man association.

8. Sunderland, England paramedics found a prone man suffering injuries including a scorched colon, caused by a Black Cat Thunderbolt rocket. The 22-year-old had, unbelievably, inserted this rocket in his back side, lay down on his front side, and lit the fuse in an attempt to make the rocket fly up into the air. But it was pointing the other way! The regional Firework Association chairman spoke for us all when he said, "This sort of thing is beyond belief."

9. A young couple, driving along Via Dutra, the largest freeway in Brazil with tons of heavy traffic, at 6am under heavy fog. The couple decided that this was the time to park (for "dating" according to the charming Google translation) and, yes, they parked on the freeway in the right-hand lane, not on the shoulder, the median, or at a gas station. Naturally, given time a cargo truck encountered a "speed bump," instantly killing both -- during the act of procreation.

And finally, my personal favourite - follow the link....


10. Scooter Fail

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Deadmau5 Mini Collectibles Series 2


OddCo are delighted to announce a brand new 2nd series of Deadmau5 Mini Collectibles, now available from all good entertainment stores worldwide, including http://www.weloveodd.com/.

Deadmau5 Mini Collectibles are a series of fantastic plastic toys, available from Deadmau5 himself and OddCo Ltd. purveyors of twisted gifts and far out figurines.

Series 2 now features 12 new characters depicting dance legend Deadmau5 in his most collectible form yet…
*Blind boxed and released in varying quantities of availability, some figurines are harder to find than others, making them rarer and more desirable. These are referred to as chase figurines.

After the huge success of Series 1 in 2010, Series 2 now consists of 12 x 2” characters, including the above - Pew-Pew, 4x4, Blood Sucker and Circuit… Which style will you find in your box? (RRP £6.99)

There is also an exclusive launch of 3 Ibiza Special collectibles this month.
These will also be available from selected Deadmau5 shows and entertainment stores worldwide including the stores at www.deadmau5.com or www.weloveodd.com



*What is blind boxed? - Blind Box or Blind Packaged means you don't know which specific design from a series you might be receiving. The boxes and/or bags are sealed and we don't know which toy is inside them. It's like buying trading cards, except you don't get a lame piece of cardboard, you get a cool collectible.

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

THE ROYAL PRINT


You've seen the commemorative plates and tea towels - now get your hands on the Crown Jewels.

BTB craftsman Peter Underhill has created “A Right Royal Affair” Wedding Souvenir print which in years to come will become a special commemorative memento of a magical day.

Available to pre-order until 2pm on Thursday 21st April, the print will be strictly limited to the number sold and is due to be dispatched in early May.

Wedding memorabilia is hot property and with floods of tacky plates, mugs and even condoms hitting the shops, this tongue-in-cheek print is sure to stand out from the rest and create and conversational centrepiece.

And if you do manage to wangle a wedding invite, don't eat the cake - in 1998, a piece of wedding cake from Charles and Diana's wedding sold at auction in £17,000!

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

WHY SO SEEERIOUS?

As revealed to our club members on the Bad Taste Bears forum yesterday... For those who didn't get the chance to have a look, here's Glow in the Dark, Giant Joker in all his glory.


We don't have any firm plans to launch this figurine as yet, but the response has been very good so far... What do you think? Would you like to own one of these?

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

BY GEORGE!? LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT?!





Just received these images of a Giant George and Mildred bear we recently had commissioned. Thought it was so amazing, we just wanted to share with you guys! There will only be one of these in the world ever and the lucky owner should receive this in the next month or so… I hope you’ve got room?

Thursday, 3 March 2011

ROLL UP, ROLL UP...

Roll Up! Roll Up! And feast your eyes upon the most incredible, mind blowing and terrifying, freak show this side of Weirdsville!? Bad Taste Bears present Jean Michel, the bear that was never meant to be.

An accidental freak of nature, conceived when an Underhill Inc experiment went terribly wrong; he is now confined to his glass tomb, eternally, for all to see. You’ll laugh at him, shudder at him, and yet, but for an accident of birth, you might even be as he is. Part Bad Taste Bear, part crab, part octopus and possibly some kind of goat, Jean Michel is the bear that nobody wanted. He did not ask to be brought into this world, but into the world he has come.

Originally drawn in summer 2010, by competition winner Joe and re-designed by BTB creator Peter Underhill, Jean Michel has beautifully painted details and is frozen in solid, clear resin.
With just 600 available worldwide, each Jean Michel figure has a individually hand numbered specimen tag and includes a Certificate of Authenticity, numbered and signed by Bad Taste Bears creator Peter Underhill.

Jean Michel is due to be released on the Online Store on Monday 7th March 6:30pm for £35 + p&p. Orders from the Online Store will be randomly allocated an edition number between 1 and 200 on dispatch. This means that you could receive the coveted number 1 bear – traditionally sold for £100 – for just £35!

Numbers 201-600 will be available from selected retailers worldwide.

Thursday, 8 July 2010

FULL COLOUR ZOMBIE PRINT!

This is now officially my most favourite Peter Underhill print of all time now... Do not miss out out the opportunity to own this amazing piece of signed, limited, Underhill artwork.
This is the Dawn!
Place your pre-order for this print here...