‘The Pike’ - Spawn (2024)
Director - Lucy Hall and Elliot Ditton
Lighting - Charlie Moore
Composers/Musicians - Elaina Sophie, Jacob Owen, Ryan Robinson
Designer, maker, puppeteer - Nancy Tait
Photographer - Kirsten Mcternan
‘Spawn’ was a puppetry show following a little girl that gets a video game for her birthday that slowly glitches in to her real life. She has to defeat each level to make it to her birthday party where she faces the final boss and can save her best friend.
I made the ‘Pike’ which was the villain she had to fight off with a toilet brush in the bathroom scene. The girls bathroom fills up with water and everything starts to come alive, like her shampoo bottles become fish and her toilet roll becomes a massive heron. The pike was made to look like an amalgamation of bathroom objects that had merged together!
Scroll to the bottom to see a clip of them swimming!
PROCESS
Made a maquette to test it's movement and make sure it met the requirement of fitting in a bath.
Used my scale drawing to cut out the correct sized pieces for the face.
Threaded withy circles through the face to build it out.
For the jaw I heated up pipe and bent it around nails I had drilled into some wood.
Attached the jaw to the top part of the face and covered it in calico.
Covered the rest of the face and spray painted it green.
Cut out half circles (gradually decreasing in size) and attached them with rope for the body.
Stretched a shower curtain over the body.
Glued bathroom objects to the face.
Spray painted it green then speckled it with other colours like brown, neon pink and neon yellow. Also spray painted the inside of the mouth and added teeth.
Glued the shower curtain hangers to the body used a stencil to make scales.
