Jason Freeny's Sculptures Dissect Icons & Toys From Hello Kitty to Mickey Mouse.

Hello Kitty © Sanrio

In June of 2008, I introduced you to the twisted talents of illustrator Jason Freeny who exposed the insides of such fun items as Balloon Dogs and Gummi Bears. Since then, he's begun crafting 3D sculptures by modifiying existing vinyl toys by fellow artists or creating the sculptures from scratch - partially revealing the insides of advertising icons and well-known characters.

The ultimate compliment, Jason takes a deeper look, literally, at the works of Disney and Pixar characters, Charles Schultz characters, Toy and commercial icons like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the Pillsbury Dough Boy, Hello Kitty, video game characters, vinyl collectibles like Dunnys, Qees and more. He even exposes vintage Care Bares and Kewpie Dolls.


Dunny ©KidRobot, Mini Qee ©Toy2r

Stay Puft ©Columbia Pictures

Gloomy Bear ©Mori Chack

Character © Berenguer, Poppin' Fresh ©Pillsbury

My Little Pony ©Hasbro

Care Bear ©Kenner

Sackboy ©Media Molecule, Muno ©Nick Jr. ©Wildbrain

Raving Rabbid ©Ubisoft, Jaws Noop ©CoarseToys

Very Hungry Caterpillar ©Eric Carle


Mario ©Nintendo, Kewpie ©Jesco

Toy Story Alien ©Disney Pixar

Nemo ©Disney Pixar


Mickey Mouse ©Disney, Lucy ©Charles Schultz and Exposed ©Ron English

Giving credit to the original designers*, his cutaway sculptures are both compelling and collectible.

You can purchase some of the above original sculptures here.

Jason Freeny, Moist Productions

*sadly and somewhat ridiculously, 20th Century Fox and David Horvath of Ugly Dolls made Mr. Freeny remove his versions of their characters from his site.

An Inside View of Jason Freeny's Unusual Art.

Jason Freeny of Moist Productions, Inc. is a self proclaimed artist, illustrator and crazy person (his words, not mine). He draws, sculpts and creates some very unusual digital artwork. First, I'm going to share with you some of his digital illustrations that have, say...a different point of view.

I bet you never gave much thought to the skeleton of a Dunny, or the innards of a balloon animal, or even the musculature of a Gummi bear, but Jason Freeny has.


Above: Visible Vinyl

Above: Pneumatic Anatomica

Above: Immaculate Confection

Above: Anatomy of a Gummi Bear

The above 12" x 12" prints sell for $59 a piece and larger ones may be available upon request. He sells many more digital prints as well as some originals.

Below are some of his graphite drawings:




And some of his fabulous sculpted figures:




See all of Jason Freeny's art on his Moist Productions website here.
And his myspace page here.