Working with Emmy winning costume designer Carlos Rosario, we created the spacesuit for Rain Carradine in Alien: Romulus.
SCPS Unlimited provided custom mask fabrication and costume elements for Birds of Prey, including Huntress goggles and the redesigned Black Mask for film production.
Black Adam
Warner Bros. asked us to construct a sci-fi-looking gurney sturdy enough to support Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for Black Adam. In addition to the cantilevered design needing to be stable and strong, the device also had to be functional, so our designers and engineers worked with our welding department to create an adjustable bed with steerable casters.
We created a slew of elements for the game, including ammo pouches, hero firearms for main characters, a stylized “buzz” axe, grenades that turn into firing turrets, rocket launcher, shotguns, assault weapons and more.
In an effort to translate the humor and friendship that is at the core of Bud Light, we worked with Wieden + Kennedy to develop the Bud Knight character. The full suits of custom armor created were used in countless marketing campaigns. Durable. Comfortable. And highly recognizable, the Bud Knight character was featured in broadcast spots, activations, and social posts for years.
Arrested Development
Since 2005, we’ve assisted the art department for Arrested Development in their creation of wacky props. Most notably, the many incarnations of Buster’s hand. His first artificial appendage was a hook we designed, followed by an oversized bionic hand in season 4. In season 5, his unsheathed, metal, robotic hand was our most technically involved to date. The animatronic hand Buster wore was remotely puppeteered by a secondary glove, which fit with sensors that allowed the robotic hand to mimic the action of the actor wearing the control glove.
Call of Duty : Advanced Warfare
When the makers of Call of Duty Advanced Warfare wanted some key game elements from the game brought to life, we jumped at the chance. Using the full scope of our in-house capabilities including 3D modeling, 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC machining, custom fabrication, and graphic design, we worked with game assets to create six total suits. Resembling robotic armatures, running down the actor’s back onto their legs and arms, each were designed with different paint schemes and configurations.
Call of Duty : Infinite Warfare
The makers of Call of Duty needed key video game elements created for the action-packed, commercial trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Using game assets, we produced pre-visualization renders and detailed samples for the client throughout the entire process ensuring a seamless and successful mission from start to finish. The cockpit components were custom machined, constructed and assembled in-house before we painted the vehicle to camera-ready perfection.
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This gigantic Carl’s Jr. spectacle was used in a national spot in which bystanders were assaulted with burgers. After rendering the 12-foot-tall mega-sandwich in 3D and fabricating it, we engineered a large platform turntable strong enough to support the XXXL burger on top of a semi-truck. The pneumatic-powered, recoiling, turret-mounted launcher on the “Burger Assault Vehicle” shot foam burgers up to 300 feet.
Learn how we executed costume designer Lindy Hemming’s vision for Catwoman to purrfection.
SCPS Unlimited fabricated custom character props for the COWZ commercial project, supporting film and advertising productions with specialty prop fabrication services.
Featured in a Fan Duel Super Bowl commercial, we built several of the Alexa like props with different functionalities and in a variety of sizes.
Captain America : Civil War
In yet another Marvel collaboration, we were asked to construct the costume for super villain, Crossbones. We created a modular system of interchangeable parts that could be inserted or removed allowing the VFX department to comp together different configurations to achieve the desired visual effect. In addition to the highly detailed rigid costume, we created in parallel, equally detailed soft pieces suited for stunt scenes.
We were thrilled to work alongside costume designer Lindy Hemming’s team on Bane’s mask for the Dark Knight Rises.
Pre-visualization was the key to successfully producing this E-TRADE commercial. The two environments were first created digitally which allowed us to determine the best camera path for a seamless transition from one to the other. Using a combination of CNC machining, large scale printing and hand painting, we pre-staged everything in our studio to ensure that everything lined up perfectly.
The Falcon and Winter Soldier
Our work with the Falcon costume followed a history of detailed masks and integrated hard costuming components with Marvel Studios’ projects. In addition to Anthony Mackie’s custom-fit goggles, which we fabricated through digital design, 3D printing, mold and casting, and detailed paint, we developed innovative solutions to ensure our custom fabricated rigid armor components of his costume stayed attached to its softer fabric.
In the Apple TV+ movie Finch, Tom Hanks’ character lives in a post-apocalyptic world prone to savage winds. We were tasked to create a costume that could withstand shooting these violent storm scenes. In the end, not only did our design do an amazing job at keeping dirt away from Tom’s face, the pumped in filtered air made it easy for him to breathe which was credited to contributing to the overall smoothness of the production.
This miniature bakery was packed full of moving parts. Our initial digital design and layout included the exterior as well as the interior with its working conveyor belts, colored lighting, and powdered sugar station. In addition to the fine detail work, some of which was built by hand by our skilled artisans, we fabricated the life-size set surrounding the bakery and even shot the commercials on location in our studio space.
In collaboration with the creatives at Anomaly, we created a smart device that related European football terminology to American football fans for Jimmy John’s. Much like an Alexa device, it was programmed to listen, think, and speak the soccer-to-football translations using sound bites recorded by famed American football coach and commentator Jimmy Johnson. Not only that, but we also produced the one-minute commercial in our studio space and three other promo videos.
SCPS Unlimited designed and fabricated custom space props, spacesuits, and mission control set pieces for Kia’s imaginative “Where Do Babies Come From?” commercial campaign.
Lady Gaga’s production designer asked us to collaborate on a variety of props for the musician’s “Fame” perfume launch including a 60-foot lifelike sculpture of her body. Starting with a 3D scan of the singer we coordinated with a specialized foam manufacturing company, who made foam to our specs 24 hours a day for a week. For the sculptural pieces, we utilized five-axis CNC machines working around the clock to get the job done.
KFC launched a marketing campaign to celebrate their joyous union with Mrs. Butterworth’s and asked us to be a part of it. To recreate a pair of giant Mrs. Butterworth’s bottles and bring them to life, our digital chefs cooked up designs for the 6-foot-tall amber lady and engineered them for puppetry and rigging. Two versions crafted were from lightweight vacuum formed materials including the iconic posed bottle form and a second complete with articulating arms built to be puppeteered by our team.
With a combination of rental placement and prop building we recreated the interior of a Navy submarine.
We designed and fabricated a realistic interactive beating heart prop for an Old Spice commercial in just 48 hours, featuring wireless controls and custom mechanical effects.
The Suicide Squad
Our team gave the character defining touches to the costumes of Peacemaker and Polka-Dot Man in The Suicide Squad. Featuring a custom-fit chrome helmet for the violent vigilante and leather-trimmed goggles and iconic advanced tech gauntlets for the metahuman criminal, the ensemble is both aesthetic and functional. The camera-ready gauntlets even had fully functional mechanical openings and integrated effects to enhance the impact for the crew on set and the audiences beyond the screen.
We helped remind Sam Adams drinkers when it was time to switch it up.
The larger than life Samuel L. Jackson mascot head we produced was featured in a Capital One commercial called “Chuck U”, that aired prior to the NCAA men’s March Madness tournament.
SCPS Unlimited fabricated custom costumes and 3D printed armor for Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, including Razor Fist and the Ten Rings army.
Spider-Man Homecoming
The stolen tech modified by Tinkerer in Spider-Man Homecoming called for a retrofit of the gauntlets we had previously designed for Crossbones in Captain America: Civil War. We worked with the director and costume department to redesign the new gauntlets and produce several sets including a soft stunt set for the fight scenes. We also engineered the hero gauntlet with remote controlled lighting for some amazing effects.
AHSOKA
Our costuming team worked with the Ahsoka art department and costume design department to finalize and fabricate the full set of armor worn by the mysterious mercenary Marrok.
The Mandalorian: Chapter 19
Our team worked with designs and models created by The Mandalorian art department to finalize the fabrication of the top portion of the Coruscant air taxi, including the full interior and rear thruster system.
The Mandalorian: Chapters 17 & 21
In the third season of The Mandalorian, viewers were introduced to pirate king Gorian Shard and his menacing Cumulus Class Corsair ship armed with 14 gunwale turrets including our fabricated “hero” turret.
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THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT – Chapter 5 Din Djarin (the Mandalorian) made his debut in The Book of Boba Fett with a dramatic entrance cutting through a meat-packing facility complete with 15 life-sized hanging creature carcasses. The carcasses were created by our set decoration team based on designs provided by the production.
Obi-Wan KenobiOur costuming team worked alongside the Obi-Wan Kenobi art department, costume design department and prosthetics team to bring the Darth Vader bio vest from design to reality using body scans to ensure a
perfect fit.
Obi-Wan KenobiOur costuming team worked alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi concept artists and the costume design department to finalize design, and fabricate the armor and headpiece seen worn by the Fourth Sister Inquisitor.
The Mandalorian: Chapter 22
When the Mandalorian and Bo Katan arrived on Plazir-15 they were shuttled to
the capital inside of a hyperloop pod realized by our design and fabrication teams. The
pod was built on a steel chassis, allowing it to be moved on set to simulate the high
speeds of a real-world [PH1] transport. Our team built out the central portion of the pod
which the characters sat in.
The Mandalorian : Chapter 20
During the Order 66 flashback in “Chapter 20: The Foundling,” we see Grogu being rescued by a Jedi Master on the BARC speeder that our team fabricated from original design concepts and preliminary models provided by The Mandalorian team. Our team redesigned the models for fabrication and built the full chassis and speeder.
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The Mandalorian © & ™ 2019-2023. Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC.
The Last Ship
We created several visual effects elements to represent a deadly virus. Using a variety of materials, chemicals, and techniques, we performed numerous tests to ensure that the seemingly real visuals worked in camera. The most realistic looking ones were then re-created on the show’s set and filmed for the trailer.
SCPS Unlimited designed and fabricated custom robot costumes for Thrivent commercials using 3D printing, CNC machining, laser cutting, and wearable prop fabrication.
We recreated the well-known crash test dummy Buster, from the television series MythBusters to take part in an epic food fight showing off the cleaning power of Tide. Digitally sculpted and 3D printed in-house, we made sure he was light and poseable for his on-camera scenes, while maintaining his iconic appearance
SCPS Unlimited designed and fabricated a custom radio-controlled robot for a national Totino’s Pizza commercial, from concept sketches to on-set operation.
A marvel of motion, this robot has articulation doors that open up his chest so that the hero product can come spiraling out in a beautiful, repeatable and fluid motion.
Spider-Man : Homecoming
To enhance the winged villain’s terrifying presence we reverse engineered an enhanced soldier exo-suit and rebuilt the pieces into a unique flight suit for Michael Keaton’s character, Vulture. Fabricated over an undergarment with attachment points for quick and easy changes, Vulture’s new costume was equipped with posable talons and a high-tech helmet with glowing green eyes. Thanks to our creative designers and fabricators, the actor could still see from behind the lights and comfortably perform his role.
Westworld
We worked with the creators and designers of HBO’s Westworld to generate a comprehensive and realistic design for a futuristic interactive map system. Our creative technologists developed custom projection mapping software to be used on a 3D surface with contrasting depths, along with motion detection sensors that triggered complex animations. The revolving base motor was programmed to support the physical map’s rotation, precisely synchronizing to the projector’s rotation.
This custom prop made for Whatsapp was created by SCPS Unlimited for the release of WhatsApp mnemonic.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Marvel needed a sleek, distinctive mask for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Made with a variety of After an expansive R&D materials and textures, the “soft” mask is internally shaped to retain the actor’s facial structure, regardless of any movement underneath. This made it comfortable and pliable but also consistent in appearance. We conducted an expansive R&D phase to ensure the actor could speak easily and be heard clearly from beneath the mask.