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“Special Art Effects, or else, plastic, pictorial, prosthetic, animatronic, etc… executed by departments with very skilled figures as “Supervisor”, “Model Maker”,“Plasterer”, “Mould Maker”, “Modeller”, “Sculptor”, “Art Finisher”, “Painter”, “Scenic Artist”, etc.
Starting from a solid grounding in traditional sculpture, painting and stagecraft, our job also evolves by researching and experimenting with newest international techniques and materials.
Nowadays, thanks to a good crew of collaborators and skilled partners, we can offer a huge collection of solutions concerning several areas of artistic creation in cinema, advertising, television, theatre.
... the head of the statue of "Miracle at Sant Anna" by Spike Lee, corpses and the "tanatoscopio" of "Imago Mortis" by Stefano Bessoni, the glaciers of Messener spots "Levissima" ...
The areas where we can realize our job are different and in constant evolution, as the fantasy who makes ’em grow (sometimes!).
We realize, on request (as any good “craftsman”), special makeup, animatronics, humans and animal anatomic copies, mime mask, puppets, muppets, model sheet, clay animation puppets, food mock-up, special props, stunt props, props reproduction for set dressing department, “on style” reproductions of pictorial works and sculptures, special decorations and pictorial effects, reproductions from nature, hyper-realist sculptures and pictorial effects, mechanicals and radio-control animations, special accessorizes and jewlery for Costume department, etc.
Our customers are not only from cinema or advertising productions.
Besides art department, set dressing, props, makeup department, costume department, stunts, visual and physical effects, are also advertising agencies, architecture, projecting and photographic studios, digital effects, art setting workshop and other professional freelancers as makeup artists, photographers, designers, property handlers, artists, etc.
This site may help you find solutions to specific problems or start a collaboration for brand new creations.
P.s: We do not realize: atmospheric effects, pyrotechnics, digital effects.
In order to avoid problems all the images you can find on this site are ours: most of them are not taken from the final products but from our workshop. Therefore We apologize for the poor quality and for the small number of pictures you can happen to find in some pages, but We need to protect our clients’ privacy. © Leonardo Cruciano Workshop S.r.L.