Lairbrew

You've obtained a supreme potion of marketable plushie!

Lairbrew can concoct you a high-quality plush to your specifications! Let us brew what we brew best and you'll have a bewitching plush for your business without any toiling or trouble. With over 100 plush projects bubbled in our cauldron you can count on our experience!

Pick your plush poison

• All About Lairbrew

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Lairbrew

You've obtained a supreme potion of marketable plushie!

Lairbrew can concoct you a high-quality plush to your specifications! Let us brew what we brew best and you'll have a bewitching plush for your business without any toiling or trouble. With over 100 plush projects bubbled in our cauldron you can count on our experience!

Pick your plush poison

• All About Lairbrew

• Our Plush Gallery

• All Our Services

• See The Process

• Cost Estimate

• Contact Us!

The Designer

Hello! I'm October Copper, and I'm the one who wears all the hats at Lairbrew! Working with Lairbrew means working with me. I'll do my best to make sure the plush you receive is something you're proud to offer to your own customers, just like I'm proud to offer mine!

It is difficult to put everything I do to create a good customer experience in to succinct words, so I will let my work speak for myself!

• Years of Etsy Reviews

Kindness, patience, and understanding are core to what I do. Artists, small businesses, event co-ordinaters, anyone, we're all trying to make it. If someone is turning to me for my skills, and they're willing to value them properly, I am going to make it worth their while. My communication style is casual, but I take great pride in being a professional who gets good results.

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ABOUT LAIRBREW

Lairbrew specializes in collector quality plush. Our designs seek to stoke the dragon-like urge to snatch a new shiny and bring it home to your lair to lay on. Trying to inspire that unique giddiness in others has led to my skillset becoming very complex! I've done all the difficult work learning the craft and sourcing the ingredients, so now I can brew a plush for you without any fuss on your part! Skip the dozens-to-hundreds of hours spent researching an unfamiliar industry and developing a difficult skill set. We'll get you right to the fun and cuddly part! Together we can make something for your customers to treasure for many years to come!

Skills that make me a good choice as a designer for your next plush project:
<sub>- 4 Years of manufacturing experience
- Multiple manufacturing contacts with whom I have well established, positive work history
- Prototyping knowledge that can only be gained with experience, with over 100 projects prototyped to date
- Excellent communication throughout the design process
- Safety testing knowledge that can help prevent border seizure and destruction of shipments.
- Rarer design workflow involving extremely detailed prototyping sheets, embroidery vectors, fabric matching, no bleed sublimation printing renders, full work day operation on the manufacturer's time zone, etc.
- Project jumpstarts. By having multiple partner manufacturers to choose from, and thanks to doing as much design labor in my own process as possible, projects tend to have a faster, stronger start.</sub>

Reference Sheets

Information must be clearly presented to the chosen manufacturing partner. Every manufacturer also has their own quirks and preferences for how they like this information presented that you only learn over time working with them. Making these is very tedious, but labor spent polishing pays off by saving headaches later, and experience helps a lot!

The Journey of one plush design

These slides show the full evolution of our popular kobold plush: rough concept sketch, reference sheets, the initial prototype, a cycle of feedback, the resulting prototype after feedback, and a few iterations later: the final plush.

Concepts and their plush counterparts

Some of these plush are still being prototyped but already look great, which goes to show that my design workflow produces great results! My experience in the field comes in to play often before prototyping, and this can benefit your plush project immensely, especially if you have very specific needs!

• Finished Plush

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• Offered Services

_{All prices are in USD. Anticipated labor hours vary by project.}PLUSH DESIGN
$50 per hourPLUSH PROTOTYPING
_{Cost varies, these are estimates.}Plush keychain: $140
Mini (6 inches or less:) $175
Medium (9 to 12 inches:) $220
Large (14 to 20 inches:) $400
Extra Large (24 - 38 inches:) 625
Giant (40in+:) Between $800 and $1500_{Prices do not include shipping, which starts at $35 to $50 depending on the selected manufacturer.}PLUSH MANUFACTURING
First order of a design:
100 to 199 plush +25% order cost
200 to 499 plush +20% order cost
500+ plush +15% order cost
Subsequent orders of the same design:
+10% order cost^{Other costs to expect:
Safety Testing:
Varies based on the manufacturer and their partner lab(s.)
By-Sea Shipping:
Varies massively based on plush size and quantity
Tariffs:
These are currently impossible to pinpoint. Please do some research as I am not a tax or import professional and cannot advise you.}

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ADDITIONAL SERVICE FEESCreative Commons Licensing
_{All work done by Lairbrew defaults to CC BY-NC-ND for CC License.}Concept and production art CC:CC BY-ND:
_{For taking completed design work to other producers}
$750 Flat FeeCC BY-SA:
_{For taking incomplete work to other artists to be completed, or for completing it yourself}
$500 Flat FeeWIPs on Social Media:
_{Varies by project, work format, and the amount of recording required.}Commercial Character Rights:
For characters and character lines I am commissioned to design. Varies in cost and terms.Bar from portfolio outside NDA:
2 year duration - $250 flat charge
5 year duration - $500 flat charge
Permanent duration - Starts at $1k

Our Services

PLEASE NOTE: I DO BULK ORDERS ONLY.

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^{If you are a US furry con looking for event plush I am willing to trade my services for a good booth. You only pay for manufacturing!}

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#4: Quality Control

Services within quality control, which is available for the complete plush service and manufacturing liason:
<sub>- Count confirmation
- Examination of each individual plush
- Grading and sorting of plush to your specifications
- Hole repair, at additional cost</sub>

If you are planning to ship out of a warehouse it can be very difficult to quality control your plush. You might not be local enough to go in and do it yourself if they will allow it, and many distributors charge a lot for these services. If you would like me to quality check your plush order, I can do it for just $1 per plush.

#5: DESIGN REVIEW

What you receive with a design review:
_{- A detailed report with suggested changes
done with experienced insight}

You don't know what you don't know, so design problems usually need to be stumbled in to head-first after money has already changed hands. If you are a newbie seeking a manufacturer on your own I am happy to check your work! An experienced eye can spot things that may clash with your ideal outcome.
For a flat fee of $40 I will review your concept, WIP, or completed sheet to provide insight. This isn't a passing critique, it is an in-depth review of what may be future issues, what will not work, how these might be over come, what industry terms to use to get what you're after, and more.

#1: COMPLETE PLUSH SERVICE

Services within the complete plush service:
<sub>- Complete design service, from sketch to final reference sheet
- Complete plush prototyping
- Safety testing for all intended markets
- Tush Tag and Hang Tag Design
- Manufacturing 100+ Plush</sub>

Take an idea and get it made in to a plush, with every step handled for you! All you have to do is make final approvals along the way. Once we have a complete concept you love it is on to prototyping, where plush will be drafted multiple times to get it as close to perfect as it gets. A few months after finalizing your prototype I'll be forwarding the bulk shipment of your brand new plush!

#2: Design Work

Services within design work:
<sub>- Concept sketching
- Complete reference sheet ready for submission to a manufacturer
- Any visuals required to communicate with your manufacturer, such as a no-bleed printing image or vectors.
- Tush and Hang Tag Design, if desired</sub>

For when you have a manufacturer but not a design! I'll go through the entire design process for you, working with you at every step along the way. The end result is a detailed reference sheet that you can take to your manufacturer of choice and have made!
^{Please note, this does require a license change to CC BY-ND.}

#3: Manufacturing Liason

Services within manufacturing liason:
<sub>- Free design review
- Complete plush prototyping
- Safety testing for intended markets
- Tush Tag Design
- Manufacturing 100+ Plush</sub>

Do you already have a complete reference sheet? If you are having trouble locating a manufacturer yourself, or you are nervous about the prototyping process, I can get your design submitted to one of several I have an established relationship with. This service includes a design review to make sure your design is plausible! Once you have a usable design we'll go through everything, starting at prototyping.