About BloK4 Studios

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Heath Hammond - Creative Director 

 A highly skilled professional with over 22 years of experience in Film and Television, Product Manufacturing, and Product Development. His expertise lies in 3D and Prototype Artistry, with a specialization in Creative Directing and Project Management. Throughout his career, Heath has demonstrated a keen ability to lead teams and manage projects, as well as conducting extensive research and development.

Heath is a specialist in historical consulting and specialty costume consulting, with a particular emphasis on military attire throughout history and historical military research. He is also an expert in specialty costume designing for sci-fi, fantasy, and action figures. As one of the foremost specialty painters in the business, Heath has worked with several companies on a plethora of projects, including SideShow Collectibles, The Walt Disney Company, and The Creative Production Group.

Heath’s artwork has been featured in numerous productions, including Armageddon, Con Air, Thin Red Line, Immortal Beloved, Tombstone, and Civil War Journal. He has also worked on TV shows such as Tales of the Gun, Suicide Mission, Me Time, and The Spaceman.

Before his career in film and television, Heath served in the United States Navy for eleven years as a Combat Crew Chief on HH-60H Helicopters and Rescue Swimmer. He was part of an elite squadron, HCS-5, that conducted missions such as Combat Search and Rescue, space shuttle recovery, and Drug Enforcement Agency operations. During his service, Heath earned several awards, including the Sikorsky Rescue Award, Naval Achievement Award, Naval Physical Readiness Award, and Space Shuttle Recovery Award.

Heath holds a degree in History from 1992, reflecting his historical interests and passion for history. He has also worked on Mural and Landscape art for the National Museum of The Civil War Soldier for Pamplin Park Civil War Site, in Petersburg Virginia. Additionally, he has collaborated with renowned artists such as Keith Rocco, Wendy Froud, and Brian Froud.

Meet Roger Saiki - Technical Director 

A fabricator, and engineer with a wealth of experience spanning over 30 years. Roger has honed his craft, making and designing a broad range of products, including snowboard manufacturing equipment, home comfort products, specialty props and costumes, and personal electric vehicles.

In 1993, Roger founded Brotherhood Snowboard Mfg. in Marina Del Rey, California, where he engineered and produced all presses, tooling, and pre and post-processes in-house. Over the course of five years, he managed 14 employees on two shifts and pioneered innovative technical solutions for composite design and manufacturing. Roger also designed and manufactured boards for several OEMs, such as Asics, Black and White, Basic, Budweiser, Family, and Yama.

In 2000, Roger opened and operated KateBoards, a storefront on Rose Ave in Venice Beach, California, where he sold women-oriented skateboards and apparel. He continued his manufacturing expertise by engineering machine tooling and processes to manufacture composite longboard decks.

From 2005 to 2018, Roger served as Technical Director at The Bedlounge / Cequal Products Inc. There, he was responsible for in-house manufacturing engineering and production development, design/development, and prototyping of home comfort products.

In 2018, Roger joined Global Effects Inc. as a manager, where he led a team of craftspeople to fabricate custom props and costumes using all aspects of metal fabrication and machining, both additive and subtractive, plastic forming, vacuum and blow molding, fiber-reinforced composites, 3D modeling and additive manufacturing. He interfaced with soft goods design and production, as well as paint and detail graphics. Some of his notable clients included Netflix, Dominoes, Apple TV, Gucci, and Disney.

Currently, Roger is the Manufacturing Director at Speedboard, where he oversees product development and design integration. With his extensive background in fabrication and engineering, Roger continues to bring his expertise to the forefront of product design and development.

Kelly Mark Delcambre - Art Director

Kelly has spent the last 17 years of his life educating his lifelong passions with all things Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy and Superhero. He specializes in two key areas; film and television prop and costume restoration and presentation, and 1:1 life size scale themed statues and environments.

“I’m am original Monster kid. I was a kid hiding under the bed sheets with my flashlight and a copy of “Famous Monsters” or Star-log, magazine fueling my imagination with ideas and images. I want to preserve all those moments from the past so that future generations can enjoy them. What pop culture gave to me, I want to give back”

On the restoration front, Kelly focuses on the sixties, seventies and eighties. Some of his proudest accomplishments include the hero mermaid tail from the Tom Hanks hit “Splash,” Michelle Pfeiffer’s Cat-woman costume  from 1992’s “Batman Returns,” Michael Keaton’s 1989 Batman suit and cowl, the bat puppet featured in the 1985 horror classic “Fright Night,” and a set of otherworldly alien costumes worn by children in the climactic end sequence in Stephen Spielberg's  “Close Encounters of The Third Kind.”

Some of the highlights in Kelly’s life sized career of themed statues include Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein which accompanied a full sized recreation set of a section of the Universal Studios backlot where the creature made his cinematic debut.   Claude Rains’ The Invisible Man, The Martian from the 1953 classic “War of The Worlds,” the creature from “Return of the Fly,” and last but certainly not least, the Gorgon Medusa from the 1981 fan favorite,  “Clash of the Titans.”

Kelly relies on his versatile and diverse skill set when forging one of his creations, be it a 1 to 1 display or the restoration of a piece of movie history. Known as a jack-of-all-trades to his peers, Kelly excels at sculpting, fabric textiles, painting, hair laying, costume fabrication, production of themed bases and environments, and sculpting body language forms from scratch.

His works can be seen at The Prop-store of London and Los Angeles, American Heritage Auction House, Julien's Auction House, The Hero Prop exhibit in Las Vegas, Icons of Darkness in Hollywood, and The Hollywood Museum on Highland and Hollywood blvd.

Despite the breadth and depth of his experience, there still remain some bucket list items for Kelly. He hopes to build or restore some characters from 1963 “The Outer Limits” series, and perhaps end his career with the 18 foot Cyclops from “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.” He considers that a good note to end on, and would happily retire after the completion of that one eye fellow.

Kelly is excited to be working with the talented, seasoned artists at Blok4, and all the opportunities this new partnership will present. 

Mike Sulprizio -Communications Director

A seasoned professional with extensive experience in the entertainment industry. He began his career after graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara, spending three years producing and contributing to independent films and live theatre performances in Santa Barbara and Prague before returning to Los Angeles.

Over the next ten years, Mike worked in commercial production and reality television, performing a variety of roles including Production Coordinator, Production Accountant, and Talent Coordinator. In 2011, he became the General Manager of Global Effects, Inc., a rental and manufacturing house for specialty props, costumes, and sets.

During his decade-long tenure at Global, Mike worked on many remarkable projects for film, television, live performances, museum installations, amusement parks, and private collections, gaining invaluable experience and connections. Together with Harout, Heath, and Roger, Mike established a new vision for the company that prioritized collaboration and customer experience.

When the opportunity arose to join a new company and broaden the range of services provided, Mike eagerly partnered with the individuals who had contributed to the success of the previous ten years. To keep his creativity flowing, he also co-founded the Troubadour Theater Company, an LA-based theatre company, and served as its Executive Director for more than two decades.