For the folks running the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee, 2021 was a very good year. The hometown Bucks won the NBA title, their baseball team the Brewers finished atop their division and the Green Bay Packers were playoff contenders two hours to the north.
And the museum’s bobblehead productions exploded, too. The oversized figurines of sports heroes, musicians and pop culture icons – and even some government officials – were everywhere.
Creating a bobblehead doll requires a lot of skill, so it’s important to choose a company that specializes in them. Most use polymer clay, which is durable and can be intricately molded. Artists start with a photo of the subject, which should be clear and large so that they can see the detail in the head and face. They then carefully transfer the image into a mold. After the doll is sculpted, it’s painted and assembled.
The popularity of bobblehead dolls has risen over the years, and people have started making them for themselves and their family members. These are called personalized bobbleheads and can be ordered through various online stores. These are a great way to commemorate special occasions, like birthdays, weddings or graduations.
Creating high-quality visuals requires a lot of powerful compute power, and with new remote work models becoming more commonplace, distributing that compute power across a global workforce is becoming more important than ever. That’s why Threshold Entertainment and Incessant Rain Studios turned to Microsoft Azure Cloud and Nvidia GPU hardware to create a completely new animation pipeline for their upcoming family film, Bobbleheads: The Movie.