JACOB MOHLIN

PROP MAKER

PROP MAKER | MODEL MAKER/BUILDER | SCULPTING

IT'S ALL IN THE DETAILS

I have a background in industral/production & graphic design and use different techiques like sculpting, fabrication, scratch building, electronics, machine work, painting and weathering. Materials I use is often styrofoam, plastics, wood and clay but also electronics and metals. Allmost everything you see on this page is made in my little shop at Kungsholmen in Stockholm.

FIXING BROKEN THINGS

I also do restoration, reparing, mending and modifications. Allmost anything such as vases, statues and furniture to paintings, books and costumes. This is an example I did for Svedish Television renting service Magasin 4, a completely broken Nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle).

Bear Suit

Work in progress of a bear costume for music promo
Be The Bear - Erupt

Donkey head

Donkey head for theater play
A Midsommer Night's Dream

Unbranded magazines

Unbranded magazines for
IKEA Digital Catalogue

iamamiwhoami, costume armor

Spartan armor made out of drywall, mops, dish bruches, tampons and pads for music promo
Iamamihwoami - Drops

Me painting a backdrop...

Miniature set, scale model house

Part of miniature set/scale model house for music promo
Sandro Cavazza - So Much Better

Piedistals for Sevan commercial

Blinking eyelids for the camera...

Copy of a dagger for stab scene in feature film Borderline (Gränsland). Sculpted in Super Sculpey

Post apocalyptic miniature set/scale model of Spegelsalen at Grand Hotel for music promo
Sabina Ddumba - Time

Spartan sword made out of plastic knives, a dial phone and a candle holder for music promo
Iamamihwoami - Drops

Reverse bear trap, foam

The reverse bear trap from SAW for comedy series Karatefylla. Made out of foam and cardboard

Extended dreadlocks for music promo
Moa Lignell - Whatever They Do

Flintlock pistol props

Swedish flintlock pistols from the early 18th century for feature film Borderline (Gränsland)

Morran & Tobias, squirrel prop

Dead squirrel for feature film
Morran & Tobias - Som en skänk från ovan

Miniature castles/scale models for feature film
Limbo

Miniature doors for Manpower commercial. Insulation made out of crispbread for debris when "kicked in"

"Home made" chess board and pieces for feature film Borderline (Gränsland)

AXA GRANOLA

A deep forzen man.

Director: Gustav Egerstedt, DoP: Mårten Tedin,

Make up Artist & Hair: Sara Klänge

HÖGSKOLAN I GÄVLE

Made the props and costume for this short sci-fi.

Director: Herman Nygren, DoP: Oskar Hökerberg.

ELMSTA 3000 HORROR FEST

Axe in head, eatable intestinals and organs, chopped up arm etc... Together with my amazing assistent Amanda Edenlönn

Director: Gustav Egerstedt, DoP: Kenneth Ishii.

HÖGSKOLAN I GÄVLE

Made a horror mind map for this short crime flick.

Director: Herman Nygren, DoP: Oskar Hökerberg.

LIVET I MATTELANDET

Prop maker for season 1 of children's television series "Life in the land of math". Together with my fantastic assistents Clara Lindberg and Johanna Andreasson.

DoP: Staffan Övgård, Set designer: Molly Carlzon.

SANDRO CAVAZZA -

SO MUCH BETTER

We built a house in scale 1:12 for about 2 weeks that we slowly demolished scene by scene in a couple of ours.

Model makers: Me, Robin Kempe-Bergman, Axel Örtenblad and Fred Thustrup.

SANDRO CAVAZZA -

BEHIND THE SCENES

How we built a house in scale 1:12 for about 2 weeks and slowly demolished it scene by scene in a couple of ours.

Filmed and edited by Fred Thustrup.

SEVAN - HUMMUS DANCE

Made 3 pillars/piedestals for this commercial for Hobby Factory.

SABINA DDUMBA - TIME

Me and director Robin Kempe-Bergman made a post apocalyptic ruin-like scale model of Spegelsalen, the "Hall of Mirrors" at Grand Hotel in Stockholm where the actual promo was shot.

CCS -

SKÖNHET ÄR EN KÄNSLA

Stop Motion commercial for CCS. I also did the stop motion with my canon 7D and Dragonframe.

Directed, edited and AE by talented Johan Holm.

LOREEN - HEAL

Miniature frozen elephants

Toy elephants, a glue gun and some powdered sweetener.

Director: Robinovich, Set Designer: Molly Carlzon

MORRAN & TOBIAS

Me and Robin Kempe-Bergman made a dead squirrel and a baby Jesus out of cinnamon dough for this crazy feature.

Set Designer: Agustin Moreaux

ELIAS - DOWN N OUT

Didn't really know where to put this, set design or prop making? A stop motion promo me and Robin Kempe-Bergman made with two Canon 7D, Dragonframe and a lot of hard work and late hours.

Live action DoP: Staffan Övgård

MOA LIGNELL - WHATEVER THEY DO

Extended dreadlocks, barbed wire braces and a huge handpainted school photo backdrop for this music promo.

Director: Robinovich, Set Designer: Me

KARATEFYLLA

Made the reverse bear trap from SAW for this hilarious comedy series for TV6.

<<== Watch the scene where it's in!

EN MIDSOMMARNATTS DRÖM

The donkey head for A Midsummer Night's Dream. As Titania is an invisible fairy I decided to flip the donkey's head so that the actors could do the scenes without seeing each other.

Turned out extremly funny!

IAMAMIWHOAMI - DROPS

Spartan amor and weapons made out of commonplaced material and stuff that women deal with most every day, such as mops, dish brushes, tampons, hair dryers, cutlery etc.

Director: Robinovich, Set Designer: Agustin Moreaux

MANPOWER

Made tiny doors out of 1.2mm thin styrofoam and balsa wood filled with isolation made out of crispbread. Handles, power outlets and lamp buttons created by model maker Axel Örtenblad.

Directed by Robin Kempe-Bergman

BE THE BEAR - ERUPT

Made a bear costume for this music promo and carved some cave stones and rock walls in styrofoam.

Directed by Robinovich

COME ON - GOLD

Gold marker, gold nuggets and a treasure map.

Directed by Iain Liljestam

ZEELAND

Miniature door, replica of a real one. Paper cut-out TV-show audience. High-rise estates in cardboard. In camera SFX and other fix and trix...

Directed by Robin Kempe-Bergman

TV6 - TAKING OVER KL 20.00

Me, Agustin Moreaux and Robin Kempe-Bergman built the miniature set for this commercial.

Directed by Robin Kempe-Bergman