After making a movie , actors and directors typically go on to do other things — likemake more flick , sell beauty products , orbecome the Governor of California , and then go back to making more movies . But what happens to the property , figures , and puppets that help make a motion picture come to life ?
Often , they end up in some Hollywood storage warehouse collecting junk until someone needs to savvy them out for some ill - advised reboot . But sometimes , if you ’re a puppet plan by Jim Henson , you ’re fetch back to be put in a museum . But before you get there , you need to be touched up a second .
As part of the Museum of the Moving Image ’s new permanent Jim Henson exhibition , statue maker and FX creative person Tom Spina was tasked with restoring some of Henson ’s most notable tool , including a bunch from classic fantasy celluloid The Dark Crystal .
We met with Spina , who spoke at duration about the intricate process of tool regaining , and show us some of puppets he and his team were working on .
“ On something like the podling , it ’s a comparatively small marionette . It does n’t look like it would ’ve needed all that much crusade . But quite a bit of time went into that one . We had to refurbish the hair , which had been mat up over sentence . We had take some steps to maintain the foam latex skin of the boldness . We call it “ sympathetic restoration . ” We do n’t want to paint over original pigment that see the pic , we ca n’t modernize it . You have to be close to this original , magical clobber .
Watch the full video and our audience with Spina below .
The Dark Crystal
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