2011 - Pretty much everything! Part #1 - Tim Walkers Mechanical Dolls

OK so instead of doing weekly or even monthly posts like I should have been doing, this is the way all my favourite bits of work related activity in 2011 is to be shared!

This was one of the first Jobs I worked on for Rhea Thierstein in July, I helped make things for this shoot based on Mechanical dolls, or automatons made by Roullet and Decamps in the 1890's and early 1900's.
It was pretty intense! We had to learn how to do face casting as Tim wanted the models to have replica porcelain face masks of themselves as well as a compartmented bisque doll costume (see final pictures), mechanical limbs and a fully working mechanical doll! Here are some pictures of us in the studio as well as the beautiful photographs that made up the finished shoot. Set design and Props by Rhea Thierstein, make up by Val Garland, hair by Malcolm Edwards, styling by Jacob K.

Practicing face casting and making the masks 

More tests...

Ha! thats me! Ageing up one of the plinths. 

 

This is the Beautiful and very talented Sophie Durham working VERY hard adding the finishing touches to little mechanical man's head. 

Here is Little Man (thats his real name) with his hand embroidered onesie and booties! Every detail was painstakingly added, thats real hair on his head by the way, Making a wig with finger waves for a giant Doll is definitely one of the strangest things I did last year!