Film Flies - Realistic Life Size Insect Props

Authentically Detailed Insect & Bug Replicas

amazing reproductions, each individually hand crafted

Film Flies, based in Burbank, CA, specializes in design, fabrication and supply of realistic insect replicas for filming, photography, advertising, natural history museums, arboretums, retail window displays, psychologists treating phobias...

Film Flies - realistic insect props have solved a number of logistical problems for film studios and photographers including Disney, Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Sony/Columbia Pictures, HBO & NBC Universal Television.

Professional service and attention to detail are the cornerstones of this progressive and innovative company

Film Flies makes the most realistic, lifelike insect props available for the motion picture industry

Most any species can be replicated with exquisite detail

Film Flies provides Prompt, Courteous and Professional Service...

Custom orders readily accepted, rent or purchase, depending on your needs

Species include: Realistic houseflies, bees, wasps, yellow jackets, spiders, butterflies, cockroaches, mosquito's, bedbugs, crickets, beetles, grasshoppers, dragonflies, mayflies, stoneflies, caddis flies, ants, termites, scorpions, arachnids, maggots, horse flies, centipedes, millipedes, inch-worms, caterpillars, etc, as well as salamanders, small turtles, crayfish, slugs,...

Stare Down - Iridescent green beetle and fly
Fake woman's thumbnail, trimmed and cut, for the beetle shell

 

Dancing on Air - Artificial realistic Butterflies and Bee

 

Welcome to My Parlor - Spider and Flies

1 of 2 spiders for the movie Salt, with hollow abdomen, to film fluids extracted with a needle and syringe

Some of 18 flies created for the hit TV show Breaking Bad

Some "Breaking Bad" flies had hooks for securing firmly, while filming with air moving the wings
A high speed camera filmed the scene in which the fly slowly tumbles and falls after being swatted

 

Realistic life size houseflies - featured in:

"Breaking Bad" Episode 310 "Fly"

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, filmed in honey, in a scene with Brad Pitt

and numerous other productions

212 realistic moths created for Adam Sandler's movie Grown Ups

 

Grown Ups trailer showing one of the moth replicas
In another scene, the main characters cook bacon over the bug zapper

 

Smallest of three sizes made for Grown Ups

 

Realistic African Tsetse Fly replicas, created for the Cartoon Network

 

Realistic black Blow Fly - A number of them were featured in Law & Order SVU season 3

Realistic Asian Mosquitoes created for a Capital One TV commercial

 

Custom Hybrid Daddy Longlegs (Crane fly) & Mosquito, one of ten created for a Time Warner Cable TV commercial

 

Realistic Vinegaroon Beetle, one of five for the Cartoon Network

 

Scorpion Beetles, one with four 1mm hollow brass tubes inside, with wire extensions leading to the front claws and feeler legs, exiting the rear of the scorpion, allowing for puppeteering front end motion, filmed peeking out of a box

 

Realistic Slugs created for Universal Pictures "Little Fockers"

 

Realistic Orb Weaver spider - Columbia Pictures - Salt - Abdomen is hollow and watertight
Unfortunately this photo doesn't show the fully detailed spider, it was shipped before re-photographing

 

Realistic Caterpillars created for a Dr Pepper TV commercial

 

Realistic Butterfly prop - for Bruce Eisenberg Photography - cosmetics

Realistic Fake Butterflies - caterpillar, chrysalis, emerger, and animatronic adult with fluttering wings

Pictured above is one of four prop sets created for Disney's Imagination Movers TV show

Realistic butterflies with fluttering wings

Options include:

Fishing hook core, for quick secure positioning, allowing for compressed-air wing motion

Flexible and bendable wire core, allowing for posing and animating

1mm Hollow core, allowing for flight down a wire

Internal Muscle Wire, Nitinol Wire, Flexinol Wire and/or Biometal Fiber, allowing for motion induced with electricity

Sponge filled body cavities, for filming fluid extraction with needle and syringe

Hollow bugs, that squirt fluid when stepped or stomped on

etc.....

 

One of four Fireflies, illuminated with 5mm LED, with custom Film Flies battery box, for Traktor Films

Fireflies can also be made smaller with 2mm LED's

 

Realistic Ants

Select Productions Featuring Film Flies Creations

Bugs Work for Advertising

Moosejaw Mountaineering catalog features Bugs from Film Flies

Moosejaw rented an assortment of 40 different insects for their fall 2009 advertising and catalog

Realistic Honeybees - Tear proof wing material makes handling them a breeze

April 2009 - Mikimoto Pearls - 5th Ave and Rodeo Drive - spring window displays

Spider fly replicas

 

Sand Spider

Creepy and Colorful Camel Spider

Where realistic art comes to life