A chance meeting with Dani Filth while building scenery for a historical action movie led to us getting the gig designing their Europe tour. The brief was something like “lots of tentacles” + “10’ tall alien skeletons” + “highly fire retardant”. We took that to mean a 90% fibreglass and foam job, with a lot of sculpting, laminating, thermoforming, and some life-cast elements. To be honest, having flown out to join them at various stages of the tour, rock and roll is somewhat more fun than film and TV, especially if you get a client who wants to push the envelope a bit in terms of the density of designed elements in a touring show. It also has its own challenges, in that it all needs to be set and struck at high speed multiple times a week. Really sound clients who were a joy to work with. To say thanks for the opportunity to sculpt cool stuff, we cast them some tour mementos from the original sculpts. Live performance photo credits to original photographer. Our initial design from the client’s key reference image included early in the gallery.
