Tony Mcvey, the man behind Menagerie Productions and behind a lot of sculptures with great quality and perfect details, from good ol' dinos to creepy original characters....take a look at his works...
Advice to new or amateur sculptors:
Learn the basics of form and composition, life drawing and especially anatomy,
and try to acquire as many related skills as you can, because the more you
know, the better your chances of staying employed..

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Influences: Too
many to recall, but let's start with Frazetta, Willis O'Brien, Ray Harryhausen,
Albrecht Durer, Gustave Dore, Michaelangelo, Rembrandt Bugatti and Antoine
Louis Barye.
Companies: British Museum:Natural
History, Henson Organisation, Industrial Light and Magic, Warner Bros., Columbia
Pictures Television, Walt Disney Imagineering, Electronic Arts, Atari, Microsoft,
Grey Advertising, Bowen Designs, Colossal Pictures and a lot more I can't
remember .
Expectations: To make
whatever I can imagine, and have it look the way I want it to.
Name: Tony
McVey.
Birth date: July 20, 1953
Studio Name: Menagerie
Productions.
Location: San Francisco.USA.
Experience: 33 years.
Material Preferences:
Van Aken clay, Super Sculpey/ Premo.
Sculpture's Size: No preference,I
have done life-size work but usually somewhere around 1/6th .