BLUE RHINO STUDIO Artistic Fabrication and Design

Jackass penguins for the San Diego Zoo’s new Africa Rocks exhibit.

This shows a timelapse of the Basilosaurus being finished in our shop, and you can see our flying Quetzalcoatlus getting textured and molded behind that. Enjoy!

Large art-nouveau-inspired interpretive mural featuring important innovations from McKean County Pennsylvania. 9′x21′

Etruscan Bear, Ursus etruscus, the dog-bear Hemicyon sansaniensis, and small Eurotamandua, an extinct European anteater. Eurasian Pleistocene display at  Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre, Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Woolly Rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, life-sized sculpture reconstruction (12′ long!) for the Eurasian Pleistocene display in the Natural History Hall of the Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Real cast-bronze portrait of General Thomas Kane, the Civil War general turned railroad and coal-company tycoon, who built the original wrought-iron kinzua bridge in 1882.

A unique part of our Kinzua Bridge Visitor Center exhibits, this console with three sets of animated mechanical flipbooks showing how the massive bridge was erected, later converted to steel, then ultimately destroyed by a tornado--the incredible wreckage is still visible in the park!

Teratornis incredibilis, (now Aiolornis) lifesize and details in clay before the jacket mold was made....a whopping 16 foot wingspan!

The Machairodontine Saber-toothed Cat Megantereon falconeri, and the Giant Hyenid Pachycrocuta brevirostris, from the Arabian Pleistocene for the Hall of Natural History in the Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre, Kuwait.

A  bronze bridge-worker figure hangs perilously from the imitation steel bridge truss in the entryway of Kinzua Bridge State Park Visitor Center...while our own Jeff Nelson hangs comfortably in the hammock below during a break at the installation.

The Quetzalcoatlus weren’t the only giants we strung up in Kuwait this year...Our 60-foot-long reconstruction of the primitive whale Basilosaurus was installed at the same time.

From our shop in Minneapolis all the way across the world to Kuwait City, Kuwait...These three life-size Quetzalcoatlus (along with the rest of their flying companions--pics to come) were mounted 30 feet above the new Hall of Natural History at the Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre this spring.

Our own Jim Burt works on the clay human figures (soon to be bronze) for the historical exhibits at the new Kinzua Bridge State Park visitor center in Pennsylvania.

We really appreciate your interest, and we hope you’ll seek out our work at our client’s venues!

Check out these beautiful mechanical clockwork birds and bent-metal stylized tree we created for the new  Kinzua Bridge State Park visitor center in Pennsylvania! The panel at the base of the tree plays bird calls when you press the buttons...

Part of the exhibits at the new Kinzua Bridge State Park visitor center in Pennsylvania feature animated antique photographs, for which we partnered with the good folks at Flipbookit to help bring to life! They took this great video footage during their recent visit.

Reproduction passenger train-car/ immersive theater at the Kinzua Bridge State Park Visitor Center, Pennsylvania.