Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Atlantis Character Designs

For my third year project I have decided to focus on the story of Atlantis, the following images are the designs that I intend to fully realise as part of my final major project.

Priestess Barisibura
This is a special effects costume, this character will wear a full lycra body suit as well as a prosthetic on the face and the mushroom shaped headpiece is to be constructed of Plastazote.

The Priesthood
Above is the concept for the jellyfish character, I intend to use silicone to construct the headpiece to give it a translucent jellyfish quality, i will also be using electro luminescent wire on the tentacles to make the jelly light up


Solon

This is a robotic piece representing one of the characters from the text. I intend to sculpt the piece then cast the main frame in fibreglass and the mushrooms in foam latex.

Friday, 5 October 2012

A night at the Chinese Opera

I have recently been volunteering for the London Youth Opera, creating props and puppets for a production called 'A night at the Chinese Opera' by Judith Weir.



I constructed the kite photographed above and also created the moulds for the two puppets shown in the images below:



Thursday, 4 October 2012

Olympic ceremonies 2012

So now that the excitement of the London 2012 Ceremonies are over I can finally reveal the photo's of the pieces that I worked on:

Head pieces for the Annie Lennox section in the closing ceremonies:






Above, the headpiece i designed and made being used in the closing ceremonies.

Below the gramaohone inspired headpiece that was also used in the show although a photograph of it being used in the actual ceremonies is not in existence. 


For the opening ceremonies I also worked on punk costumes and head-pieces featured below:


Me modelling a make-up design for the closing ceremonies...






Monday, 18 June 2012

Metropolis

Here are images of the last instalment of my second year at LCF. I have been working on a group collaboration on a hypothetical remake of the 1930's film Metropolis, within which I designed and produced the helmet featured below whilst Helena Tegeder did an excellent job on making the costume to complete the character of Joh Frederson.


Full Costume










Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Android Helmet

Using the head cast of Jonathan (photographed in previous post) I have now sculpted the futuristic Metropolis helmet with finishing touches to be added after I have moulded the sculpt and got the positive fibreglass piece out.





Head Cast

Full head cast of my model who I am using for my current Project- A hypothetical remake of the 1927 film Metropolis. I am designing and making a helmet for Joh Frederson, the ruler of Metropolis.



The head cast came out very well with the exception of some very small air bubbles.
Bompas and Parr- A space Odyssey. Oh the hours I whiled away creating roughly 300 giant ants for this art installation.