Pillywag's Mansion Intro

Production Design & Fabrication

Cartoon Network 2013

Spooky times call for spooky measures...

BEHIND THE SCENES: https://vimeo.com/58424461 Everything you see was built/crafted by hand then photographed. Client | The Jim Henson Company Production Company | Digital Twigs Starring | Neil Patrick Harris Produced by | Clark/Serrato Creative Director, Compositor | Ryan Wehner Production Designer | Mike Pasley Director of Photography | Chris Vanderwall Swing | Jonas Studer Production Assistant | Mike Kasper Art Department Mike Pasley, Jonas Studer, Sean Johnson , Patrick Johnson, Brian Clark, Michael Serrato, Neil Patrick Harris Sound Design | Markaholic Stop motion software: Dragon Frame Motion control: Dynamic Perception Processed in: Lightroom 4 Composited in: After Effects CS6

The Process...

How to Cobble Foam Into Cobblestone...

Cobblestone walls don't grow on trees. They're too heavy, a tree could never support that weight. That's the problem with cobblestone walls. They're too dang heavy to work with! And real divas, too.

So I just made one.

I started with a 24" x 48" sheet of 4 inch thick foam and drew a quick outline of the stones. I mounted the foam to a sheet of plywood and then stapled down the foam along the outlines. The result was a nice relief of the stone wall. I sniped at it with scissors and tortured it with a blow torch to give it some distress and pock marks, like a good cobblestone wall ought to have.

Then some spray paint came by to party.

Last was a mix of paint and plaster as the mortar in between the stones.

Boom! Cobblestone.