Work with Doug Beswick segued from stop-motion to puppeteered or animatronic creatures. Besides doing various make-up effects, Doug was contracted to create a creature for the "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" Movie. It was something we referred to as the 'crock pot' monster. Larry Nikolai designed the creature and I sculpted the maquette. I sculpted the final creature to fit over our lead puppeteer Mark Wilson's arm. A separate tail piece was sculpted by Joerg Fiederer. It was puppeteer-ed through the table. Mark, myself and Joerg squeezed underneath the table. There was a hole made through both the table and the pot.
These are simple cable mechanisms for opening the mouths and making the eyes roll back for "Evil Dead 2".
A pair of cable control skeleton hands for "Darkman" was another project at Beswick Productions. These controllers operated all the fingers and the wrist.
This is a fully cable controlled mechanism designed for a film called "Pet Shop".
I designed and machined these mechanisms for the Puppet Studio's "Riders in the Sky" show.
A simple eye mechanism designed for the Puppet Studio.
Working for Kevin Yagher on "Childsplay 3" I built a back-up radio control head and worked on set as a puppeteer.
I worked at Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. on "The Santa Clause", designing this cable leg, and machining parts for several cable controlled reindeer puppets. I also worked on the set as a puppeteer.
