Jacinta’s role as Odd One Out’s production illustrator and sculptor was to create a series of pieces as both set pieces and props for the documentary.

This sculpture was used for the opening image of the documentary. In the context of Adam Johansen’s story, this sculpture was to be portrayed as though a teen Adam had sculpted it.

Leading up to this, Jacinta did some research and studied photographs of Johansen’s sculptures and work for Odd Studio. She focused on his stylistic choices and how realistic his creatures look. She based her work on one particular sculpture which he had made specifically for the documentary. The claw sculpture needed to emulate a younger Adam’s style and ability. Her focus was on attention to detail, yet also looking rough, since it also still needed to look as though it had been sculpted by someone who isn’t a professional just yet.

Hence, Jacinta wanted there to still be some flaws whilst showing this artist’s potential. Keeping that in mind, she crafted this piece with the approach of someone trialling different sculpting techniques.

Embodying Adam’s realistic style, she 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.

These are images of different stages when creating the sculpture, and above is a still from the final cut of the opening scene.

Next up are illustrations which were created to be set pieces. This particular scene was set in an art class. Jacinta drew various pieces to be used as props by different actors. The pieces had to look as though a bunch of different art students had sketched the same stimulus.

With a focus on form, she created varying individualistic approaches and styles to portray human anatomy. In her own artmaking practice, she’s is often drawn to realism rather than abstraction, however her job here was to create different art styles as though different artists were drawing each piece. All up there were about five different pieces. This was a welcome challenge to experiment with different techniques she wouldn’t usually apply.

Here, we see a skeletal structure — a teen Adam’s take on the class brief, whereas the pieces of his other classmates employ completely different approaches and styles.

Jacinta particularly enjoyed choosing a different art style for each actor. Featured is actor Ryan Scott with his character’s art piece. Each piece was also drawn from a different angle, dependent on where the character was sitting in the class. Below are final stills of this scene in the documentary. Jacinta was also featured in this scene as an art student.