VINCENT

VAN DYKE

SPECIAL

EFFECTs

EXORCIST: BELIEVER

Exorcist:

Believer

For this film, we woked closely with Vincent for costume designs, Sourced fabrics to match to inspiration images, created patterns, cut, sewed, and Aged doll clothes. Phew!

All This, for the custom Voodoo dolls Vincent and his talented Team were Creating for the film. It was an honor, and pleasure to work with this studio.

It was so fun to use our secret Doll clothes skills to make scary things!

Concept art  

The project began with the concept art created by Vincent’s team.

The filmmakers wanted the dolls to have a more sinister look than the source material, but still maintain the look of hand made dolls.

Fabric

selection

Here are fabric options considered for the finished garments. We created three dresses and one outfit consisting of pants, shirt and cumberbund.

For one of the Hero dresses we used a 1940s print from my fabric collection.

Pattern

Creation

During the design process of the dresses, a temporary doll body served as our dress form. Preliminary dress prototypes were developed to create the clothing patterns. The patterns were tested with mock ups, and then finals were made in approved fabrics. Once complete, we aged and distressed to give the final product a more ruined and old appearance.

  • Temp doll body

  • Temp doll body

  • Rough Dress 1

  • Rough Dress 1

  • Rough Dress 1

  • Rough Dress 2

  • Rough Dress 2

  • Rough dress 2

  • Rough Dress 3

  • Rough Dress 3

  • Rough Outfit 1

  • Rough Outfit 1

  • Rough Outfit 1

  • Rough outfit 1

  • Dress 1 pre-aged

  • 3 dresses aged

Final

Product

Once the clothes were aged and distressed, we delivered the finished pieces to Vincent for their coordinating heads and bodies. Each custom doll was dressed, photographed, then sent to be used in the movie.

Overall, I’m very happy with the results and feel honored to be part of this collaboration.

  • Dress 1

    Front view plaid print

  • Dress 1

    Profile view plaid print

  • Dress 2

    Front view square print with socks

  • Dress 2

    Profile view Square print with socks

  • Outfit 3

    Front view shirt and pants

  • Outfit 3

    Profile view shirt and pants

Credits

Client Vincent Van Dyke Special Effects

Completed - October 2022

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