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Project Hail Mary took up a large portion of my life for well over of a year. There were a few characters that used puppeteers. It takes a village and the crew in the CFX department, creatively supervised by Neal Scanlan built some amazing performative in camera masterpieces and supported James, myself and the puppeteers on set like a Formula 1 pit crew. The months of agonising specific detail they added to each character is absolutely beautiful. Neal and the team made magic. Concept designers, Mould shop, Droid dep, Mech dep, Painters, 3D modellers, FABrication, The Office crew. The whole team jumped into the deep end.
The puppeteers that joined this production each brought their own expertise and made life on set a little bit easier. Shout out to the supporting puppeteers with the primary goal of not being in the shot. I’m grateful to each one of you. I see you.
Claire Roi Harvey @claireroiharvey
Scarlet Wilderink @scarletwilderink
Darcy Collins @darcyecollins
Fred Davis @freddavis1701
Arina Ii (ii) @arinalauraii
Brian Herring @brian_hezza
Mike Quinn @mikequinnstudios
Mike Taibi @miketaibi78
Tom Wilton @tomkwilton
Matt Lyons @mattplyons72
Mohsen Nouri @mohsen.nouri.26
Ross Green @rossgreenactor
Lynn Robertson Bruce @lynnrb3
Jack Parker @jackparkeractor
Zoe Halliday @zhalliday59
@jortface
@projecthailmary
13 Mar 2026
A crazy project. Just mental, but very rewarding in every way
18 Dec 2025
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08 Feb 2026
This guy. Our journey started on a stage puppeteering a horse and then a desert on Star Wars The Force Awakens. Almost 15yrs later and we are still friends. Shocking because he’s actually very annoying.
Tom Wilton. What a dude
22 Sep 2026
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
In 2023 we shot this movie in a whirlwind. An incredibly short build followed by just over 40 days of filming. Everyday was a rollercoaster. Choreographing 15 shrinker performers. Delores body sequence. Exploding bodies. Bringing a baby Beetlejuice to life, etc.
This production relied heavily on our Fabrication department, headed up by @mollypippop . Whatever was thrown at them, they didn’t even blink. It was definitely a movie where each of our CFX departments joined in on everything and really collaborated.
*Shrinker Performers
*Baby Beetlejuice
*Delores body parts
*Deflating bodies
*Exploding stomachs
*Expanding bodies
*Soooooo many dead bodies
The goal was to keep everything feeling nostalgic and 80s.
06 Aug 2026
Jurassic World Dominion
This is always a close one to my heart as it’s a movie within the Jurassic Park Universe and one of my first coordinating jobs leading a team of puppeteers back in 2020
Damian Farrell, @lynnrb3 @claireroiharvey were my core team of puppeteers and really jumped into the trenches with me on this. Covid shut production down a few weeks into filming so coming back to it was a real challenge and the CFX team (too many to name) really supported us on set.
Puppeteering Beta (Baby Raptor) was so lovely and such a beautiful build. Bringing a Giganotasaurus to life was one of those pinch me moments. The dilophasaurus is so iconic and just cool in every way and putting a team together of over 20 puppeteers for the underground Market scene was epic. Every week was learning how to bring a different dinosaur to life. Never a dull moment
Shout out to some of the crew that my brain can remember this many years later.
CFX TEAM:
@pete_hawkins_fx (Dilophasaurus Video)
@karlgallivan
Jessie Hinton
@mollypippop
@becsimm
Thea Fuller
Sherri Hazzard
Ady Parish
Caz Gladwin
Andy Calhoun
Juan Orihuela Cuesta
Fawn Muller
Martin Rezzard
PUPPETEERS:
Tom Wilton
@miketaibi78
@sheilaclark4362
@freddavis1701
@trovesimpson
@neilsterenbergpuppeteer
@mattplyons72
@puppeteertim
Dave Chapman
Phil Woodfine
@kat.smee
And so many others…….
Filmed at @pinewoodstudios
28 Jul 2026
This movie! This cat!
Derek Arnold - Lead (UK coordinator)
Tom Wilton - Lead
@brian_hezza
@claireroiharvey
@lynnrb3
@brightshinypete
@sarahmardel
Made by:
@legacyeffects
13 Jul 2026
ARMANDO
This beautiful machine ( I think the name Armando came from @phillordy one day in pre-production at the workshop throwing names out) was a puppeteered element on Project Hail Mary
@paulszebesta and his team spent MONTHS building prototypes and then painstakingly bringing it into the real world with what they do best. Creating amazing art that moves. Paul and his team deserve every award, simply for putting up with me and the puppeteers.
This was a perfect example of the marriage between CFX and VFX. Armando lived in a room the size of a closet. Having rods, a camera, Ryan, often one light source and 4 puppeteers around can easily be a nightmare, but Paul Lambert and @mag_sarnowska worked tirelessly with us and the one comment we always heard the most from them was, “DON’T sacrifice the performance.” Armando doesn’t exist without them!
A few of the puppeteers I used on second unit with me to puppeteer Rocky worked on Armando as well.
Shout out to:
@miketaibi78
@mattplyons72
@mohsen.nouri.26
08 Jul 2026
13 years. 10 Star Wars projects. 25 characters and a catalogue of pictures to choose from BUT this one is special. The team at Creature Cantina. Everyone there is so talented and special. #maythe4th
04 May 2026
“Not bad for a Human” - Bishop
15 Apr 2026
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10 Feb 2026
A fantastic half a year with some lovely creatures / puppets. @dave.filoni @jennifergetzinger.director @brycedhoward and Anders Engstrom have created some lovely stories
02 Oct 2025
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