Martin JagoAnimatronics · Puppets · SFX

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Twentieth Century Fox
October - November 2013

Martin was an animatronics model designer on Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings, engineering a collapsing ox with the workshop team in 2013.

Creature FX Supervisor - Connor O'Sullivan

Animatronics Model Designer

Part of the workshop animatronics team engineering an Ox that collapses with exhaustion for the Ridley Scott bible epic.

Video

Exodus: Gods and Kings poster

Behind the scenes

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  • Fibreglass core of the Ox standing in the workshop with legs and head attached, a welder and gas bottle on the floor and a sink bench beside it

    Fibreglass Core

  • Two crew kneel beside the trimmed fibreglass Ox shell on a steel base frame, with its head held at the right and a third man walking past

    Trimmed Fibreglass Core

  • Two crew crouch beside the trimmed fibreglass shell panels of the Ox, one marking a panel with a pen, with a chain and steel rods behind

    Fibreglass Head and Shoulders

  • Ox mechanism in the workshop, a welded steel frame with chains and cabling running through it, fibreglass leg and body panels fitted and head resting at the right

    Cabling Up

  • Fibreglass leg and shoulder of the Ox bolted to a steel base frame on castors, with a hand marking the shell and cables behind

    Fibreglass Leg

  • Ox rig collapsed forward onto its front legs on the steel base frame while one of the crew kneels behind it with tools, in a bright workshop

    Test Collapse

  • Painted Ox in the workshop seen from the front left, pale grey skin, long curved horns and closed eyes, standing on its steel base frame with chains

    Painted Profile

  • Painted Ox with long polished horns standing on its wheeled steel base, front on, with a welding screen, benches and open workshop floor behind it

    Painted Ox

  • The finished Ox strapped upright on the tray of a white ute at sunset, with a man seated beside it and a desert film set village behind

    Transporting to Set

  • Darren kneeling to dab the nose of the Ox with a cloth on set, while crew and a photographer with a tripod look on

    Darren Wets the Nose

  • The Ox with blood stained legs and nose, still roped and harnessed, on the tray of a white ute in the set village

    Bloodied and Leaving for the Day

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