Ren: The Girl with the Mark

For Ren, I was asked to help design and build one of the main props called A Reather.
The brief was to design an artefact that would be used to draw an evil spirit from a possessed individual.
The initial concept was “Some sort of sphere that is kept in a wooden box and brought out whenever a possessed individual is found”.
The artefact would be held above their head by someone resembling an inquisitor and the spirit would be drawn into it.
However, I hit upon the idea of giving the artefact hooded, monk-like faces with huge, sinister gaping mouths that were waiting to suck the life force from any so unfortunate to be put before them.
I also thought it would be nice to give the piece a glass body so that the drawn spirit could be added in post-production with CGI.
The design was agreed upon and I put to work. I sculpted all the main details once with a view to taking molds and reproducing them so that all six sides would be identical. Sadly, time and budget restraints meant that I had to leave the project and the pieces were cast and the final artefact constructed by another member of the crew.
I was also asked to design coins that would have been used in the Ren universe. The coins would all have a dragon on one side to give them a sense of collective uniformity, then each coin would have a different animal on the other side. So far, the Boar coins are the only ones to have been produced.
These were made by a third-party medal/coin production company from my designs.

Ren: The Girl with the Mark, Season One, can be found on YouTube.