Company of Shadows

Delve into the mind of Paul Gerrard. Regarded as one of the leading and most unique character and creature designers in the movie industry today. His alien designs where at the forefront of the hugely successful Battle La, set the foundations for Wrath of the Titans and are soon to be unleashed again upon the world within Michael Bay's TMNT.

Company of Shadows is 120+ page art book exploring an epic selection of his own personal and movie characters. Discover what really goes into creating these beasts of science fiction and horror.

Company of Shadows is an in-depth exploration of the mind.

Discover the foundations and insights behind every design. Each design is presented with their own notes and mini stories. Discover characters derived from custom meditation sessions. Characters based on symbols created in the dream states. Characters whose visual details holds the information to a plethora of stories.

The book also contains an in-depth exploration of the 'Hellraiser Origins' project, created/produced by Paul Gerrard in 2012. Its characters stories, back stories and never before seen artwork. The story to re-imagine an iconic horror legend

Over the next 2 years Paul's unique and terrifying creations are set to be taken from preproduction to full movie shorts and beyond as part of Beyond Darkness Films.  Directed by Paul Gerrard and Paul Griffiths these shorts will be unlike anything you have seen before. All based upon the characters in this book, read their stories here first.

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There are plenty of great perks available in return for your pledge to this campaign. Here are just a few of them:

-A digital version of the book

-An original colour ink A4 sketch of a ‘Cast’

-You become the Director of your own ‘Cast’

-Credited as Executive Producer on the first short