Hey there, Clint here—the heart, hands, and late nights behind Eden Heirlooms Digital Taxidermy.
Wildlife’s been woven into my life since I was a toddler. Our family moved back to the homestead in Northeast Oklahoma when I was little, and from then on the Ozarks owned me. Hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, horseback riding—I spent half my waking hours outside. I even worked alongside my dad building the region’s very first hunting resort. Those hills, those animals, that life shaped everything I am.
In my late 20s, life pulled me to Colorado—dream state for the outdoors, and soon I became a dad to my daughter. Things changed, divorce happened, but I stayed so she’d always have her father close. Then came years as an over-the-road truck driver, rolling thousands of miles across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. I saw wildlife most folks only dream about—grizzlies, bugling elk, moose in misty swamps—and somewhere along those highways, I picked up a camera and fell hard for wildlife photography.
For a long time I wasn’t too fond of technology—it felt like it was taking jobs, changing things too fast. But out in remote Nebraska, raising my girl on my own, I realized the only way forward was to learn it, not fear it. I built my own massive machine, started fumbling with AI, and slowly turned it into something alive—an AI-powered system for graphics and generation.
That’s when the idea hit: combine my lifelong love for wildlife, my eye from decades of photography, and this new tech to preserve hunt memories in a whole new way. No more taking from the animal than the story itself. Ethical, beautiful, forever.
But I saw what was out there—one other person doing digital taxidermy. Good work, but not quite real enough for me. I knew if I was going to do this, I had to go my own way.
So I started building my own AI model from scratch—the first truly specialized for North American wildlife and outdoor scenery. No shortcuts. Thousands of carefully chosen images for deer alone, thousands for elk, bear, antelope, turkeys… thousands more for autumn woodlands, winter mountains, snowy creeks, golden sunrise fields. I’m still feeding it today, back home on the family homestead in Northeast Oklahoma, because the more real data it learns, the more alive the results feel.
Equipment matters just as much. Not every setup can handle this level of realism and speed. My graphics cards, processors, and linked AI “brains” let me push details others can’t—fur that catches light individually, eyes with real depth, scenes that feel like you’re standing there.
Then comes the editing—that’s where the magic really happens. Even with a perfect generated scene and animal body, blending in your exact antlers (or horns, scars, coloring) takes hours. Matching lighting ray by ray, casting shadows that fall naturally, making weather feel alive—wet fur from dew, steam curling from a cold muzzle. One piece can take 1 to 10 hours, sometimes more, because the better the base, the better the final. And I don’t ship anything until it feels like one flawless photograph.
That’s Eden Heirlooms. Born from a lifetime in the outdoors, miles of highway, fatherhood, and refusing to settle. Every canvas is part of a story still unfolding—honoring the animal, the hunt, and the memory without harm.
If you’ve got a harvest photo you want preserved forever, reach out. I’d love to hear your story and bring it to life.
Thanks for reading, Clint