Surrealism
Does the UK wardrobe department require your lead actor’s body before they get there, do you need an object scanned for the VFX department, do you need a character scanned for a background sculpture, want an actor scanned to add to your computer game, do you have an existing sculpture that you want digitised? New scanning equipment means John Cox’s Creature Workshop is now a One Stop Body Shop. Thanks to a Screen Queensland Enterprise Grant we have invested in a state of the art, Digital Scanner that allows us to scan people in house or on location. Since 2014, when we…
Read MoreJohn Cox’s Creature Workshop made all the physical Go Go Gadgets for the 2002 Walt Disney Production ‘Inspector Gadget 2’. Using a combination of animatronics and prosthetics, the items built included Inspector Gadget’s heart beating and intention displaying Go Go Gadget Hat, Go Go Gadget Phone Hand, and the infamous Stop Sign gag. The team at JCCW designed and developed some of the most advanced animatronic technology seen on screen at the time. Also introduced in this film was Gadget’s female detective partner G2. Amongst the items made for G2 were the Go Go Gadget Net Guns, Techno Boomerang Hat, and…
Read MoreThe location work for ‘Komodo’ was filmed in the cane fields around Yatala on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Interiors were filmed at Village Roadshow Studios, Coomera, Gold Coast. John Cox’s Creature Workshop designed and created 7 animatronic Komodo dragons for the film. There were 3 complete Komodos all measuring 14ft long, and there were 4 ‘half body’ Komodo. All of the versions were created for very specific movement requirements or for various death scenes.
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