Protecting animals is taken seriously when making a movie – even concerning what most people would simply consider vermin. In König Laurin squashed slugs were to be shown. Therefore, my job was to create true-to-life (or better true-to-death) slug dummies.
The mountain pastures are beautiful but we would have liked to find some specimen of common toadflax. The stupid plant does not grow there by itself and we couldn’t find artificial flowers. So I built it on my own…
I took apart several artificial Flowers, and re-arranged the most fitting parts. The blossoms are composite parts themselves.
It is a bit like a witches’ cauldron: Take Asparagus, Cuckooflower, Lupinis buds, yellow Dendrobium and Wisteria sinensis flowers, mince and mix thoroughly – behold my creation of toadflax!
After having worked recently on a coffee house set, I got the idea to share my admittedly simple, however effective recipe for a fake latte macchiato.
Last spring, I had to dress a whole sidewalk cafe. It wouldn’t have been possible to redress everything between shots for maintaining continuity. Therefore, I needed a solution that would last for the whole shooting day.
After carrying out a few experiments in the run up to the shoot, I found out that plain old canned shaving foam is the ideal solution. I just pour milk into the glass and add – very carefully – a little amount of strong coffee prepared from an instant product. Finally, I add a nice topping of shaving foam.
All ingredients can easily be kept ready to use. And the result looks stunning and really lasts for hours!
Now all the details of the last weeks come together: beginning with the draft of December 2nd, the fake confectionery from December 5th, loads of custom made decoration in puppet scale and the puppets. Welcome to Coffee & Treat
Durable pralines that won’t suffer under the hot spotlights. Wooden beads, paint, some hot glue that serves as icing and finally some sprinkles and half of a jelly bean. Bon appetit. Or maybe better not…
Today the super fast and uber-cheap variation. A simple wine glass, and old tupperware dish, some fashion jewelry, hot glue, spray paint. That’s it.
And another flying device for Gamecraft. Costs again below €10.
In front of a green screen it really flies ;-)
A pair of rocket boots to let the hosts fly through the virtual Gamecraft worlds. Second hand in-line skaters and a little make over.
And the classic again – fake products. This time a milk carton and a cereals box. My puppet Felix serves as the brand’s mascot.
I’m working on props for the feature film 13 Minutes (Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert) portraying failed Hitler assassin Georg Elser. Brand new tin buckets need to become old paint buckets from the 1930ies period.
