Predator: Badlands - Yautja Costume

In 2024, director Dan Trachtenberg invited us to collaborate on the latest chapter in the Predator franchise, ‘Predator: Badlands’.
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In addition to the Yautja weaponry, our team was tasked with redesigning the iconic Predator bio-mask and exploring costume concepts for both Dek and Father.
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For Dek’s mask, the director wanted something streamlined and sleek - a design that retained familiar elements of the classic bio-mask while evolving key areas to push the aesthetic forward.
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For the costumes, we worked under costume designer Ngila Dickson. As a Predator in training, Dek wears gear more akin to a tactical training kit than the traditional full Yautja battle armour. Father, by contrast, is an imposing presence. As the senior clan leader, the director envisioned him heavily armoured and adorned with trophies from past hunts. The resulting design became a fusion of Viking-inspired brutality and heavy-metal iconography, creating a figure that felt technologically advanced and yet deeply steeped in tradition.
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Artists: Gus Hunter, Chow Qin Yi (Max), Josh-Hua Terei, Ken Samonte, Adam Anderson, Vaughan Flanagan
Art Director: Vaughan Flanagan
Production: Brooklyn Dineen