Are you ready for some Fightins!!?? I am. Are you ready for some trolls in the comments? I think I am. Yes, it’s time to do a behind-the-scenes for what seems like our most controversial project, the renaming and rebranding of the Reading Fightins. Why the Reading Fightins? Besides being a great Minor League Baseball [...]
Scrappy B.T.S- Pt. 3
And here is the final modernized Scrappy. I think he came out pretty cool. Still has a lot of the same sweet sweet vibes that the OG had, but cleaner, simpler, and a little more life to him. We even got to do this full body version of the Scrappster. Nifty! Tomorrow morning we’ll preview [...]
Scrappy B.T.S- Pt. 2
Here’s our first crack at updating the Scrappy head. We tried to give him a little more life, simplify the design, a change out the clichéd spiked collar for the chain collar. What’s cool about the chain collar was that it gave us a new storytelling element to work with to tie the rest of [...]
Scrappy B.T.S- Pt. 1
This is the original Scrappy and I’ll be honest when we got the call to update this little guy we were pretty nervous. We considered this guy to be a classic. The design embodies the folksy quality that we love in MiLB. But we knew there were a few things we could improve upon. Some [...]
Scrappers Behind the Scenes
We rebranded the Mahoning Valley Scrappers a couple years ago. The team all ready had a classic mark, Scrappy the Bulldog. We wanted to update him a little, added a chain to his neck instead of a spiked collar, cleaned up some of the rendering style. Our next task was to expand the Scrappers’ Universe. [...]
