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Digital storage limits have prevented me from uploading all my projects to this page. My Full Portfolio and CV are available for download at the bottom of all website pages, where you can also find a link to visit my Instagram.
This project is a costume prop of the character “Oil Can” from the stop motion movie Box Trolls by Laika Studios, part of the final module in my first year of the BA (Hons) Prop Making for Film and TV course with Coleg Y Cymoedd and the University of South Wales.
For this project I built a custom fitted, theatre-grade costume for a hypothetical theatre performance. The head and funnel are made of EVA foam with vac-form eyes, mesh vision panels and assorted lengths of upcycled tube, meanwhile the box is made of hardboard, with sturdy leather seams, shoulder straps, a Velcro fastening at the top and a free-swinging back panel with movie-accurate rope “hinges”
I was asked to make an intentionally bad taxidermy cat for It’s My Shout! and S4C’s short film Milodfa (released February 3rd 2025), the description I was given being “someone’s first attempt at a taxidermy”.
“PusPus” was my first prop to feature in a film. He has a hand-sculpted head and paws, Hand painted glass eyes and fur and is partially poseable.
This piece had a central role in the film as a constant accompaniment to one of the main characters, Noni.
A project from the “Historical Recreation” module in the second year of the BA (Hons) Prop Making for Film and TV course with Coleg Y Cymoedd and the University of South Wales. A film quality interpretation of a realistic child’s sarcophagus.
The goal was to design and make a realistic sarcophagus based on my own primary research. The piece has hand painted designs, based on observations or lifted directly from the source material. I was unable to identify real prayers to copy so used a hieroglyph cypher to make up text in the same spirit.
Currently on display in The Egypt Centre at Swansea University.
This project was for the “Advanced Specialist Skills” module in the second year of the BA (Hons) Prop Making for Film and TV course with Coleg Y Cymoedd and the University of South Wales, in which I had to re-design a classic movie monster, then sculpt it, mold and cast it, and paint it to a professional standard.
I chose the Creature from the Black Lagoon and used references from real animals that live in the Amazon river, where the creature is found in the movie, to re-imagine what a more modern, realistic version might look like.
