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did the Hotel Guardians costumes for the end of Season 3, and it was really cool because working with him for three seasons, I became friendly with him, and he trusted us to just kind of take those three stunt costumes and run with it." With the trust in their working relationship, Ippolito adds, "It was during the pandemic, everything was through Zoom. We would do design revisions—we did all the illustrations here, all the designs and all the 3D modeling, and he just approved all the stuff that we did." Oentimes Thingergy has had to mass produce pieces for shows at a fast pace to shoot on location. For AppleTV+'s See, they made about 200 sets of armor for Costume Designer Trish Summerville and Supervisor Jim Tyson. "They needed a lot of costumes. There were helmets and armor, and they needed a lot in a very short amount of time. There were a lot of mix-and-match pieces and a lot of things that would shuffle around, but we made helmets and armor and tons of stuff in eight weeks, a super short amount of time. Trish, we've worked with her a couple of times, and she's very good at communicating what she wants, and Jim Tyson is a very good, strong supervisor that knows how to communicate to us what he wants and what it needs to be." Ippolito goes on to say, "The supervisors and the designers that I work best with are ones that I could have very direct conversations with. We're all just people trying to do really rad stuff, and we either jive or we don't, and that's fine. The people that I work well with, I'll do anything for them, and that's just it. Those people take care of my team really well. They appreciate all of us and I think that's one of the things that I'm worried about that a newer generation of supervisors won't understand that facilities like us enable them to do their jobs really well." Ippolito's 25 years of experience of specialty work and 15 years of owning and operating Thingergy's workroom has provided a Signatory shop that has expertise in building what shows need. "There's a million ways to make a helmet, a million ways to make a suit of armor, a million ways to make all kinds of different things, and whether we're making it on a vacuum-formed Kydex or injected plastic, or it's a 3D-printed part, picking and choosing where those things are is where my specialty is, because I've got the experience in all the different departments and I comprehend everybody's workflow really well. I can make that kind of top-down decision making to pick and choose what's going to be the most efficient for time, efficient for budget, and give us the best results so that we can give the Set Costumers something that they don't hate us for." If you need costumes, props, or weird things, contact Frank Ippolito at their website www.thingergyinc.com/contact/ it has only been in one or the other department. "Some shows, I'll get a lile bit of both, like Bullet Train, I got both. Steve Melton was the Property Master, I got a bunch of work from him. Sarah (Evelyn) Bram was the Costume Designer, and Jim Tyson was the Supervisor. We've got a ton of work from both of them but that's rare. On Obi-Wan Kenobi, we only did props, I got nothing from costumes. For The Mandalorian Seasons 1 and 2, we got costumes only, almost nothing from props. We try to walk that middle ground and be able to serve with both sides, because there's always a lot of like, well, props are helmets and belts and costumes are pants and shirts. I try to be able to do both. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't." Thingergy created work for three seasons of Netflix's Umbrella Academy with Costume Designer Christopher Hargadon. "We built the (Luther Hargreeves) muscle suits for him, then we built for the guy with the fishbowl head ("A.J." Carmichael). We MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 43