X - Prosthetics

In 2020 we were given the opportunity to work on Ti West's latest horror film, X. Our team partnered with our prosthetics department to design and create the main look of the characters Pearl and Howard, along with various gore prosthetics for each of their victims. When designing the elderly couple, Ti wanted us to be thinking in terms of creature design rather than character design; to push them to the point of becoming monsters, and then to pull them back just far enough for the audience to accept them as 'folk'.

Pearl - Tahiwi Trenor-hunt

Pearl - Tahiwi Trenor-hunt

Pearl - Tahiwi Trenor-hunt

Pearl - Tahiwi Trenor-hunt

Pearl - Tahiwi Trenor-hunt

Pearl - Tahiwi Trenor-hunt

Pearl - Tahiwi Trenor-hunt & Daniel Cockersell

Pearl - Tahiwi Trenor-hunt & Daniel Cockersell

Howard - Wētā Workshop

Howard - Wētā Workshop

Howard - Vaughan Flanagan

Howard - Vaughan Flanagan

Howard - Daniel Cockersell and Wētā Workshop Design Studio

Howard - Daniel Cockersell and Wētā Workshop Design Studio

Lorraine - Chris Guise & Wētā Workshop

Lorraine - Chris Guise & Wētā Workshop

RJ - Russel Dongjun Lu

RJ - Russel Dongjun Lu