Advanced Foam executed a number of set pieces for the 2011 film Cowboys & Aliens. The alien spaceships featured in the film include support struts made by us. Several custom architectural shape designs can be seen throughout the western town set.

All the foam parts were fabricated in our facilities and had to be taken to the Mojave Desert, where the scenes were shot. There were seven truckloads worth of pinnacles alone. Each of the pinnacles were nearly 100 feet long. The final product ended up being equivalent to a 10-story building tilted at about 30 degrees. It was a real challenge because the footings had been placed in the sand nearly a month before the pinnacles were put in. There was absolutely no room for error.

“PLANET OF THE APES” © 2001 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.

Sculpting is not Advanced Foam’s forte, but that doesn’t mean we can’t help the process along. In the case of the five-foot-high knight chess figures, we first machine-cut the horse side and front profiles, then they were shaped by the customer and returned to us for cementitious coating. A full 32-piece chess set was produced for a Honda commercial.

Advanced Foam created a number of architectural set features for the 2011 feature film Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

As part of a campaign to promote the Nissan Cube Advanced Foam built ten of these 6′ x 6′ x 6′ structures, with cutouts to resemble the car’s rounded, asymmetrical windows. Half-inch-thick heat-formed acrylic windows were placed inside before the tops were added. All exterior surfaces were Polycoated before finishing by the customer.

Above: One of the finished Cubes photographed at The Grove in Los Angeles. The Cubes are scheduled to be displayed at various locations across the U.S.

Advanced Foam turned out nearly 300 traveling foam walls for the game show Hole in the Wall.

Photo credits: ©2008 Fox Broadcasting Co./Patrick Wymore/FOX

This fruit drink promotion booth started out as a 16-foot tall foam plug, which was drawn and scaled from the six-inch plastic bottle original. The final product featured in the commercial was finished and painted by the customer.