MECHANICAL CREATURES AND PROPS

With many years of experience creating virtually unlimited props for theme parks, film and television, Kevan can make practically anything that your particular event, film or application may require!

Kevan with 'Tyrone' his favorite T-Rex.

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Look out Jurassic Park fans! Kevan's young T-Rex, affectionately dubbed 'Tyrone' has amazed and astounded thousands of visitors to parades and events nation-wide.

When movie and television producers need an animal to perform a specific behavior, Kevan often gets the call. Especially if the desired behavior may be too dangerous to use real animals. Or perhaps the desired animal is extinct and dangerous! When Disney’s “Honey I Shrunk The Kids” needed a T-Rex to harass the cast, Kevan got the call. They liked it so much that it was used on the title credits, on the “We’ll Be Right Back” from commercials blurb, and then on almost every other episode for the next two seasons.

The young Tyrannosaurus Rec 'Tyrone' at various stages of construction.

Here are a pair of photos taken moments apart that help to demonstrate the amazing flexibility of Kevan's creations. By barely leaning on its shoulder, as if patting tyhe gigantic beast, Kevan can make 'Tyrone' here move his entire body in an incredibly fife-like manner!

When CBC’s television production of “Heartland” needed a horse giving birth, Kevan produced a replica of the real mare that could breathe, kick and flip its tail. In addition, it was equipped with a pair of foal’s hooves rubber mounted in the breach position for the actors to pull on. The replica blended so perfectly with the real mare that it is almost impossible to pick it out in the episode.
Above is the real live horse actor that Kevan made a replica of.  A well trained stallion that is a bit of a 'boxer'!

The second season of “Heartland” required a fight between a black stallion and a white one. Such a scene would obviously break all S.P.C.A. rules so Kevan built a rearing replica to double as the combative black stallion. The very real-looking yet soft front hooves can box, paw the ground, and do basic math! The tail flips and swats, the head can toss and turn and the whole thing only weighs forty pounds!