Vintage fisher price merry mutt pull toy (1949)

Seventy-five years and still rockin’ with the grain! An original Fisher Pirce wood-milled toy, the Merry Mutt. With two keys and four wheels, this untethered canine is ready to play!
Scanned at the courtesy of a local antique shop, then polished, texture-baked, rigged, and animated in bringing to life this primitive children’s trinket.

In greater detail, the act of photogrammetry was used to obtain an articulate point cloud, then tessellated mesh. Next, I drew an extruded assembly in Solidworks to set the hard-surface basis for the mutt’s retopology. Upon exporting the solid body assembly as an .STL, I then eliminated the tessellations in organizing subdivided grids of quad topology. From this point, I was off to the races, caging new projected textures from a smooth sculpt of the scanned mesh and reconstructing a few materials procedurally. And last but not least, the rigging for the rigid musician.