ice sculptures for movies and tv
At ice dragon ice, we’ve done lots of ice sculptures for movie and tv productions in Louisiana. Oh, and occasionally in Texas. Or even beyond. (Albuquerque? Savannah? Really?! 😳) Often, we work with the location caterer (mostly Location Gourmet!) and do sculptures for the wrap or midway parties. Other times, we work with the props department and our ice has a chance at being IN the production itself 🤩
Ice sculptures for movies and tv are some of our favorites since they’re often well outside the box and almost never boring. And if it’s for the production, then our work has a chance at living on, essentially forever. (That’s pretty unusual for an ice sculpture!)
But SOMETIMES, we don’t make it into the final production, like with Green Book (see below) 😩 Not because the sculpture sucked, but maybe because the scene it was supposed to be in didn’t fit the story. Or just editing :/ (Speaking of GREEN, we were in talks to do lots of ice for Green Lantern. But they cut that scene too. Can’t say we’re SUPER upset about that, in hindsight 😉 We did miss out on meeting future Deadpool because of it though 😞)
Out of all the ice sculptures for movies and tv that we’ve done, one experience with a production stands out a bit. It was our first in Louisiana, and we were asked to make a sculpture for All the King’s Men (the gator head in the gallery above)
The interesting part for us, apart from visiting the set at Jackson Barracks, was that props initially asked for a pelican with its pouch hollowed out to hold all the Ponchatoula strawberries that you see in the gator’s mouth. We explained that the pouch would be too small to hold many strawberries unless you made an absolutely HUGE pelican. So, we suggested a gator head instead, and thus had a very visible effect on the final production.
Before we got to see it onscreen, we didn’t have to guess if our sculpture was going to make it the final cut of the movie. At least one reviewer mentioned the ice sculpture in their review. Overall, it wasn’t a very complimentary review, but as one of “a few interesting images of Southern decadence,” we seem to have been a highlight 🤔 We’ll take that! 😜
If you’d like to see our ice in “action” (melting, perhaps?), check out the clip below:
Popeye's butterfly shrimp commercial
It turns out, if you do enough ice sculptures for movie and tv productions, you might end up onscreen 😱 So far, it’s happened 3x (not counting local news), and ALMOST another time, in a legit movie! See if you can spot a familiar ice sculptor in the butterfly shrimp commercial below.