Shane Annand is a software developer, multi-media maker, and artist. His primary passion is recreating props from his favorite science fiction and fantasy media. He has been working to master this craft by applying it to a wide variety of subjects. His primary mediums include paper, metal, glass, resin, 3D printing, wood, and electronics, but he adapts to whatever materials are necessary to create prop replicas that look and feel real—like a small piece of another world has somehow slipped into our own.

When he’s not recreating the work of his favorite designers and makers, he draws a lot of inspiration from the natural world, Art Deco and Gothic architecture, and surrealist art. Often working entirely freeform and intuitively, he feels out each piece as it develops. Since joining Loretta, he has been able to develop a lot more original work and find his own style and voice as an artist.