The
pièce
de résistance is Aslan. Twenty artists
and model makers took three months to make him for about the
same price as a Porsche
The
Pièce de résistance, the lion/Christ figure.
He moves, talks, blinks and even cries. In repose he is so
realistic that several newcomers to the set have given him
a
wide berth believing him to be real, claims Paul Stone. He was designed by Vin Burnham, who created the
dummy in the Volvo car advertisement and the talking pandas for Who
Dares Wins. She studied live lions at Longleat and anatomical
drawings before creating Aslan.
His face
is moulded from latex foam made to a
secret recipe and whisked in a food mixer to the right consistency.
His mane is yak hair. His whiskers and beard are horse hair and
pig's bristle. His eyelashes last saw the light on a badger (the
hair was imported from China). His face has a fine covering of
ox stubble and the rear ends of six coyotes have been plaited together
to make the brush on the end of his tail.
A team of 20 artists and model-makers took three
months to make him, for about the same price as a middle-of the-range
Porsche.
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Aslan, the lion/Christ figure flanked
by Susan (Sophie Cook), standing and Lucy (Sophie Wilcox, and Edmund
(Jonathan Scott), standing and Peter the Brave (Richard Dempsey)
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