Penny Dreadful: Season 2

In season two of Penny Dreadful we were hired to help created digital assets to be output in polystyrene to help dress the 'Poole Family' Witches house. The models included gargoyles, stone wall dressings, grave stones and architectural sculptures.

Client
Showtime/SKY Atlantic

Studio
Ardmore Studios, Bray, Ireland

Role
CG Modelling, Technical Modelling, ZBrush Sculpting, Texturing

Date
July 2016 – September 2016

In season 2 one of the main stages was gothic house owned by the ‘Poole’ family who were in fact a coven of witches. The production design called for dark, medievil  stonework in almost every room. We used ZBrush to sculpt all the organic parts of the set and these were sent out to be routed in polystyrene on London and Madrid. The sectioned parts that came back were hard coated and then installed on set before the set decorators did their magic.

notes: Fire place. Gargoyle.

Penny Dreadful is a British-American horror drama television series created for Showtime and Sky by John Logan, who also acts as executive producer alongside Sam Mendes. The show was originally pitched to several US and UK channels, and eventually landed with Showtime, with Sky Atlantic as co-producer. It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 9 and began airing on television on April 28, 2014, on Showtime on Demand. The series premiered on Showtime on May 11, 2014, the first in an eight-episode season. After the third-season finale on June 19, 2016, series creator John Logan announced that Penny Dreadful had ended as the main story had reached its conclusion.

The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter. The series draws upon many public domain characters from 19th-century British and Irish fiction, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray; Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Renfield, and Count Dracula from Bram Stoker’s Dracula; Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; and Dr. Henry Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Penny Dreadful: Making of Season 2

Penny Dreadful: Season 2 Trailer