ART DEPARTMENT
voodoo (2025)
Production Designer: Jacinta Yardin | Actor: Cenk Orhan | Photography: Jacinta YardinWith an innate attention to detail, Jacinta focuses on the little things to help bring a set to life. She conceptualises the aesthetic of the project, going above and beyond to create a world in which the cast, crew and audience can be immersed in. Jacinta has had the pleasure of being part of the art department for films and theatre productions across Australia.
Jacinta has recently headed the art department for Ripple Production’s I’ll Be Fine (2026), and for Limitless Network Studios’ Voodoo (currently in production) and My X’s Boyfriend (2025).
In 2026 Jacinta has been Standby Art Director and Standby Props for Tamyaz Production’s upcoming feature My Inner Child.
Jacinta’s duties often include production design and prop mastery including sourcing and manufacturing.
Featured are BTS images from Jacinta's recent production design and art department contributions on the aforementioned films. 
Design, MANUFACTURING & creations
Jacinta’s role as Odd One Out’s production illustrator and sculptor was to create a series of pieces as both set pieces and live props for the documentary. Since the documentary centres on co-founder of Oscar-award winnining studio Odd Studio, Adam Johansen, Jacinta’s creations had to emulate his personal art style and demonsstrate the growth of his artistry over the span of both his personal life and his career.
Featured are process shots of creating pieces for the documentary and the final stills.
Embodying Adam’s realistic style, Yardin added emphasis to his journey, as at this stage in the documentary, he was still honing his craft. Here you can see experimentation with varying techniques for scale and skin-like textures.
Yardin’s artworks had to represent different stages of Adam’s life and have a clear throughline as his skillset advanced. She created a vast series of artworks that ranged from a young child’s amateur level all the way through to a late teenager who is showing the potential of a professional. Here are different artworks which adorned teen Adam’s room. The works vary from cartoonish figures to more detailed and realistic studies of anatomy and form.
Yardin had to also create various pieces which were set to look as though different artists had drawn them. She experimenting with different materials, as well as techniques. In addition to graphite sketches, the works included mediums in the likes of watercolours, oil pastels, and charcoal. As a ambidecturous artist, Jacinta also experimented with using different hands and different grip types. Using differing materials and applications / control was how she best conveyed a visible difference between art from different age brackets, styles and ability levels.
The final piece she worked on for this project was a sketch of a creature Adam had especially created and sculpted for the documentary.
First, Johansen created the sculpture and then the director, Hernandez, asked Jacinta to sketch the “concept design”. The illustration needed to look as though teen Adam had come up with the original concept art, and this would then inspire Adam to later create this character after becoming successful in his career.
It was such an honour and welcome challenge for Jacinta to draw this piece that Adam had designed. She aimed for this particular artwork to showcase a teenaged Adam’s artistic understanding of tone and depth, which could later correlate to his professional understanding of form in a more three-dimensional capacity.
For My X’s Boyfriend, Jacinta was the head for the art department. She had to created props for set dressing as well as designing and manufacturing a makeshift version of a squib but for blood to remotely explode everywhere.
After much deliberation, she came up with a design using medical tubing and got to work experimenting with making fake blood with different textures, consistencies and colours. She also used these different types of fake blood to build each makeup look to be as realistic as possible. Some of the mixtures were edible as well so the actors could spit out blood.
