FMP - Research: Kenneth Lilly's ReSaurus Action Figure Development

Research: Kenneth Lilly. (Action Figure designer for ReSaurus.)

ReSaurus was a prominent action figure company from the early 90's till early 2000's, creating action figures for Sonic the Hedgehog, Resident Evil, Quake, Gex (Which unfortunately were never released.) and the one I'm mainly focusing on in this post, Crash Bandicoot.

One of Kenneth's portfolio pages, showcasing the figures he helped design and also some of the model sheets he did.
I own several of these figures, and they all have superb sculpting, paint application and look strikingly similar to the original drawings.

Kenneth Lilly worked as a figure designer during the heyday of ReSaurus, creating the initial designs for Crash Bandicoot and Sonic the Hedgehog figures.
He also helped create a line of figures for Quake and Gex. (Which never got released.)

Another portfolio page for Crash Bandicoot.

The thing I like about the design work for these figures is the model sheets could be also used for a video game, animation and comic design.
Infact, one of the action figure sheets, Dr N.Gin, was used for the next game in the series.

Dr. N.Gin's figure sheet, the arrows signify where the figures articulation is.

The in-game model that was made using the action figures design.
Yeah...it kinda looks like shit, like the rest of the characters in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex,
but it still shows that the action figure designs could be used for multiple things.

I really like the look of these model sheets, they're really well made and easily portray how the figures would work. Plus, they could be used for anything, so added bonus.
I'd like to try doing something like this, which I could do by adding hinges and articulation points to my existing model sheets.

Here's a few more pieces from Kenneth Lilly.

Dr N.Brio's figure sheet. The figure was never made, but the design survived.

Koala Kong. The figure was never made, but the design survived.

Dingodile. This figure was made available in the second wave of figures.
Again, I like the articulation points and detail.

Accessories. Every action figure needs accessories.

Amy Rose from the Sonic the Hedgehog Line of figures.

Dr Eggman from the Sonic the Hedgehog figures.

Kenneth's portfolio page for his work on the Sonic the Hedgehog figures.
These figures were made for the release of Sonic Adventure, and even though they have good build quality, most of them kinda looked awful, atleast in my opinion.

Kenneth's portfolio page for a line of Gex figures. (Gex was a game series on the PS1 and N64.)
These figures were prototyped but never released, which is a shame since the figures look really well made, but now we'll never know.  Atleast some of the development work for them still exists.