It’s rare that I do any sculpture work anymore for film like I used to. But this particular assignment really appealed to me for reasons that have nothing to do with money: recreate the stern carvings of the royal flagship that Michiel De Ruyter seized and towed from Chatham during Read more…
Here’s the trailer for the historical epic film Michiel de Ruyter for which I did some projects.No lack of flying wood chips and clouds of gunpowder here! See previous posts on the Stern of the Royal Charles and the Corpses of the Brothers De Witt. Subtitles in English.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FErwE727WA
Another sculpture assignment I received from the production of the film “Michiel de Ruyter” was to recreate the cruelly lynched bodies of the brothers De Witt, a prominent Dutch politician from the 16th century and his brother who were attacked by an Orangist mob and lynched in the Hague. Obviously Read more…