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I'm always on the lookout for interesting or challenging projects and have saved companies
thousands of dollars on their themed projects . |
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Recent Project Images
(..excuse the limited images while this website is slowly being rebuilt)
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The
ReConstruction of Philadelphia's "Enchanted Colonial Village"!
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One of the Last Surviving
Animated Christmas Villages left in the U.S.
Frozen, Baked, Battered, Melted, Broken, Patched and Repatched..
The Childrens Museum of Philadelphia needed someone to Rebuild the entire
village from the ground up so it could survive the next few decades.
One of the most interesting creative projects you could get in Philadelphia ..
Requiring New Mechanical
Design and Fabrication, Re-Fabrication of every building, Re-Sculpting of
almost all of the 50 animated figures as well as the various included props /
architectural pieces , new figures created and more made for a very busy
project.
(Done at about 1/5th the cost that any other shop would have had the ability to
accomplish)
This project took about twice the amount of work that it would've taken to
create an entirely new village from scratch ..but that would've been cheating.
(See it on display every Christmas season at the Childrens Please Touch
Museum , Philadelphia USA)
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30ft
Mural at the entrance of Donatuccis Kitchen and Bath
depicting the buisness' past and present.. (Philadelphia)
One of the types of things I've been doing between larger projects.
The
Woodland String Band ( Mummers Parade - Philadelphia 2009 )
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(..image
before finish painting)
Foam-Sculpting and Scenic Painting
Project included sculpting of a 10ft sphynx, Anubis busts, 3ft snakes, and sculpted components of their 10ft X 20ft backdrop piece.
(All done at a ridiculously low cost)
("Much" construction and help painting by the Woodland String Band themselves)
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Enchanted Village figure at the shop. The body shell is the original created by a company in Germany in the 1960's .. The hands were resculpted to repair older rough fixes..and the head was created from scratch to match the original design style from the German sculptors |
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Just for fun, R2D2 on Broad Street Philadelphia. Basically 3 out of every 5 people for hours stopped or drove their car around the block to get out with the entire family to take pictures. (One of my little ways as an artist to make Philadelphia as interesting as I can) |
| One of four sculpted animated animals
(designed and fabricated for Pets Plus , Trenton - New Jersey) |
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Another Enchanted Village figure
showing the newly designed mechanics. (Originally the mechanics were under the floorboards of each building that the figures were in .. but for ease of setup and teardown each year..the museum wanted the figures to have the mechanics internalized. The schematic for the mechanical design for this figure will be available in the Village Pages coming soon on this site. |
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Spacesuit Costume for MMJ Productions (Nudist Camp Zombie Massacre / 2008) MMJ Video Productions Official Web Site |
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Old Artwork for |
Until I rebuild the entirewebsite here's a few links to my work Other places on the net!
IMAGES ON PHOTOBUCKET .com
DARKRIDE DESIGN FABRICATION IMAGES -tombriderdesign
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
MY MYSPACE PAGE
HAUNTSPACE
IMAGES ON WEBSHOTS
The
Obligatory FaceBook Page
YOUTUBE VIDEO - NY Student Film with a quick robot I made in "The Calderons"
Another Part of the Robot-Film with Kristen Schall from The ConChords
not sure if these are still here
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551641606134097764
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6529944131988915689net.
..and for those
interested in building Animatronics
The Massive Animatronics Links-Page
(Years of work compiling over 4000 Links!)
The Animatronics FAQ page
and much more coming back soon! ..
Christopher Hillman Creative Services
Animated Exhibits, Trade Show Displays,
Large Scale Custom Built Animatronic Projects including
DarkRides, Haunted Attractions,
Christmas Displays and Themed Attractions
Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York
(215) 900 - 3527
