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It's about making something, and you don't have to put everything on one helmet. Make it into a character." By later seasons of Fear the Walking Dead, the survivors in this world were living like they had limited resources and would make protective clothing out of different materials. Working in collaboration with the designer, Doug and his team had creative freedom to make things out of found objects. He asked if they could use anything to make these costumes. "Go get us some tarps. Go get a sleeping bag. We were just making things out of everything and it was based on 'What would you do? What's around?' You're not going to go make a nice Levi's coat or John Varvatos pair of pants. You're gonna grab what's nearest, and wrap yourself up with it. There was no line to cross, which made it even more fun. It turned from a soap opera regular type of show—cowboy hats and shirts and boots—into a more interesting world with weird masks and cloaks and all this other gear. When the crew that had been on the show for a few years saw what we ended up doing, they were like 'wow, this is fun now.'" On The Walking Dead shows, every costume is aged from daily living in a post-apocalyptic world. "I don't think people realize how much work called them weirdos, but there was an angler fish mask, and we made a spider face mask out of a glove and a welding goggle, just stuff. I had one that I called a Zip Tie Fighter. It was just a baseball helmet. I took zip ties and cut a big wire hanger and the moment I cut that big hanger, the supervisor is, like, 'that's $40!' and I said, 'it's worth more now.'" Doug, Supervisor Jennifer Schossow, and Costume Designer Stephanie Maslansky were brought in by director/ executive producer Michael E. Satrazemis for Dead City "because we'd worked with him before on Fear, and he was tasked with revitalizing that show or puing some electricity in it." One of the biggest projects that Doug worked on was the bad guy faction, the Burazi. "They were wearing motorcycle helmets, and they looked like bugs, and the director hated it. He said, 'Do whatever you guys can do to make these guys look more menacing.' The Costume Designer had some mood boards and I said, 'Just let me do it.' Their theme was rubber, metal, and tires; tire treads and stuff like that. I made a samurai helmet, basically out of tires. And then more and more helmets out of tires. And they're like, 'Where are we going to get tires? Let's get bicycle tires. Car tires. It's ridiculous but it's New York City. We did that, and the director was like, 'Okay, can you make 40 more?' So, we had to bring in a couple more people to build these helmets and I had to guide them like, 'This is the look. Let's see what you can do.' I didn't tell them how to do it. It's not about puing things on. Spider face mask made out of a glove and a welding goggle; Negan jacket during aging process, Fear the Walking Dead.