Box Art Is Away!

Meaning that I sent it to Gentle Giant tonight through this website called YouSendIt.com. They provide a waystation for heavy files that can't be sent by standard e-mail. Hopefully, that means production can begin on my toy! Woo Hoo!

Thanks to Stephan Britt for the handy tip!

Final Box Art!

Here 'tis! I just tweaked the front a little - the other fonts didn't make me happy, so I decided to put the top flap logo on the front of the box as well. It feels right and looks good!

I thought about getting arty-farty and putting just the beaver drawing on the front, but my officemate voted for more practicality, and it made sense. I had to shrink the artwork down a bit in order to display it here, but the image doesn't seem to have degraded at all.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it to Gentle Giant! The image file is too heavy to send through standard email.

Beaver Toy Box Art (In Progress)

I thought you'd like to see the current version of the box art. I decided to scrap the original concept, and move in this faux-log direction instead. I think I'm going to drop the text on the box front entirely, and make the beaver picture a little bigger - the rest is pretty much set. I'm going to try to do that at lunchtime today so I can e-mail the art to Gentle Giant right away.

Maybe I'll do a cylindrical box for a later version!

First Pass At Box Art!

I did this in Illustrator, importing the beaver drawing into the file. Then I took a screen shot of the box front, and tweaked it a little in Photoshop. I don't know if I'll really be able to mention Gentle Giant on the packaging or not, so that part's up in the air right now. Lemme know what you think!