Shakespeares Globe Theatre

Realistic Pig for Imogen

This pig was a technical prop. It had to be extremely realistic and the action of the actor was such that it had to seem like he was butchering the pig every night for a long summer run. He would remove a slab of meat with his cleaver and cut the meat into 3 parts to serve.

I made this from a polystyrene carve, then silicone and a whole load of magnets. It also had to drip fake blood from the legs. To do this I concealed previously filled slow dripping tubes of blood in the pigs legs.