Hussein Chalayan’s One Hundred and Eleven Paris fashion show: a collection of mechanical transforming dresses, made over three months. A Hussein Chalayan Studio collaboration. My creative crew comprised Guy Stevens, Janet Burns, Joe Scott, Janet Knechtel, Scot Brooker, Andy Roberts, Josh Lee, … Continue Reading ››
Made for Animated Extras and designed as a hand-operated puppet velociraptor hatchling, for the Sauripark theme park Austria. A person walked amongst the public with the creature on a plinth but operated by hand and hidden from view.
My first introduction to working in animation, making lots of these folks.
Warner Brothers Senior animatronics designer: Werewolf team.
Warner Brothers Senior animatronics designer on the Monster Book
Mechanical parts for a pneumatic animated brown bear, nine feet tall, for prehistoric attraction ride at Dinopolis, in Teruel, Spain.
Commercial featuring an Audi A2 inside one of the pods at the London Eye. I headed a team to place the car with ramps and lifts into the car at night.
Jim Henson’s creature shop: I worked in the animatronics department, making parts and accessories for the Vogon’s heads.
Made with animatronics designer and puppeteer Mark Hunter, at Hot House. Models. The real dog was not happy to see his puppet double so we had to keep it covered up. TV viewers complained 150 times about exaggerated slapstick with the demented terrier attacking its owner.
Senior animatronics designer on the creature effects team including work on the Basilisk and the Spiders, especially the one attacking the car. Basilisk
The Lazytown characters are very well known in their home country of Iceland. We worked with Lazytown Inc there to translate these characters from their existing theatre, cartoon and illustration incarnations into sophisticated Banraku-style puppets for a TV pilot. They were part hand-operated and part animatronic.
Two 40-foot hydraulic sperm whales made in the Uk and Amsterdam. The tail had the mechanism placed into the mould – and then it took twelve hours to pour in the silicone .The whales we made were tested in the harbour … Continue Reading ››