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words, just how would a man burned alive and subsequently sent to hell look if he were sent back to our world as an avenger of evil? Spawn or HellSpawn…Born from ashes and condemned to roam our world as disfigured unlikely hero. | ||||
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suit used for the motion picture. The test suit
or pre-suit was similar in design but nothing
like what ultimately made it to the big
screen. This pre-suit was first and foremost
all smooth. No burnt skin texture or charred
skin detail what so ever. Secondly, the
muscle structure that was sculpted for this
version was different then what was finally
used on screen. The stomach and
abdominal area was completely different as
was the rib cage, groin area and arms. In
the simplest of terms, it was a totally
different costume. The beauty of this
however was that it was still sculpted onto
Michael Jai White’s life cast so in that
respect we had a perfect body structure
to work off of.
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| Once the suit was pieced together we began the sculpture work and transformation from what was meant to be a comic book inspired suit to a replica of the movie used Spawn suit. This is the process of the underlying charred tissue. The actual skin would then be sculpted overtop at a later phase. | |
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you’ll notice all the tear marks and seams.
All this was pieced together meticulously to
bring it back to as much of it’s original self
as possible. The most noticeable difference was the
crotch skull and the ‘V’ detail that starts up at
the chest area and comes to a close at the
crotch skull. Clearly in this first stage it was
meant to be more comic book influenced.
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Time for a new crotch skull. The top picture is from the pre suit. The right picture is our new skull based on the movie design. |
This test casting of the skull was painted chrome and weathered accordingly. We then proceeded with a new casting which was unpainted and fixed to the entire work in progress costume that when complete, and new full body molds would be taken, this detail would blend in seamlessly. |
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Cowl sculpture in water
clay.
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| Both hands and forearms sculpted from scratch and detailed with the same charred flesh look as the rest of the body. Designed to blend in and look as a one piece costume. |
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| This is what the raw latex urethane foam casting looks like before all the paint and finishing work is done. |
And here was our reference. Compare and judge for yourself the amount of work that went into the restoration and final transformation of this costume. |
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Chest skulls to complete the look. These were cast up separately and added to the final wearable cast suit.
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The burnt face appliance seen here is an original casting from the films production studio that was not used during filming. It is not our rendition but rather an original.
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