The third witch is supposed to look as if she’s made of stone. I began with blue foam and roughed it out as if I were actually carving stone. The clay on the face is to give an example of what she would look like if she were wearing a mud mask as a disguise. […]
The Woodwitch is supposed to look like she’s gathered a bunch of sticks and built herself out of them. I did a technical sketch on the large drawing of her and then dived in. This is the shoulder yoke. After cutting out the shape on the bandsaw, I drilled two holes for the support poles.
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13:33 The leaves on my street are starting to change color. # 20:03 I’m cutting out the yoke for the wood witch’s shoulders. # 20:07 That went faster than I thought. Now, I’ll sand the sucker to get rid of the copious amounts of splinters. # 20:18 Moving on to installing the shoulder-yoke to the
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For the fog witch, I start with roughing out the form in styrofoam and clay. You can see that I have it on a simple stand. Here’s the basic sculpture, without the ears, and the drawing Michael Schupbach, the designer, gave me. I’m pretty pleased by the resemblance to the drawing. I’ve added in the
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These puppets at their base, are rod puppets, mostly with internal rods. What you’re looking at here is the grip and shoulder bar of the fog witch. The grip is the bit that looks like a ray gun. Now, normally, I wouldn’t have the shoulders above the grip, but in her case, her head is
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So here’s what I did yesterday. The concept for this build is that each of the three witches has created her corporeal form out of things she’s found in the woods. So one is made of stone, one of sticks and the other of mist. I’m starting with the stone witch because she will be
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I’ve started a new project, building the three witches for MacBeth. Yay! No dead dogs! This is for the Puppet Kitchen with Michael Schupbach designing. It looks like it’s going to be a fun gig and I’ve got full permission to post process shots as we go. Today wasn’t very exciting in terms of having
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