As part of the sculpture services from sculptco (www.sculptco.com)  i was asked to create a concept  with a following prototype of a character for the famous  www.philippes.com - French Dip Sandwich restaurant in Los Angeles.

 I started out with a digital 3D concept, which has been approved immediately. Next step was to create a clay-sculpture, where i needed to make some changes to the initial 3d concept.

Then create the mold - since this is a simple character,creating the mold was pretty easy.
I decided to make a two pieces mold, first the Hand holding the plate then the rest of the character.

And here is the final Philippe's Character  -