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Here is a collection of Tony Candelaria's past commisions. Click for slideshow and info.
David Lynch's Inland Empire; Constructed 3 life size rabbit costumes for enitial short film series titled "Rabbits". The shorts were then featured in the 2007 "Inland Empire".
Me at 19, holding our first rabbit head, ready for painting.
Testing out the suit.
Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad island, WB animation; Animation supervisor.
Henry Selick's Coraline; Worked on the stop motion film as a puppet fabricator and model maker at Laika studios in Portland OR.
Working in the puppet fabrication dept. Lending a hand.
Fish puppet sculpture for theater scene.
Close up of sculpture, ready for mold!
Original concept art (by: Chris Turnham) And the finished model I made.
NYC window display promotion with my tent!
Miniature pizza!
Animatable Pitcher plant prop.
Animating the scene with the pitcher plant prop.
Sculpture of bug couch for "mother's bug room".
Animating bug room scene.
Art Dept crew! Can you see me with my Uke?
Brooks Athletic shoes; Worked with Portland OR studio "The Great Society" to fabricate a giant plush shoe as a carnival prize for "Brooks Run Happy® Cavalcade of Curiosities Tour".
Big Dutchman/JS West; Created a variety of 140 realistic chicken props for traveling display.
We created many different poses of chickens for the display.
A picture of Tony and his Hens in our art studio.