My demo reel
I need to update it, since it has none of my Lazytown work on it, but, at least it’s online now.
Puppetry
UNIMA World Puppet Festival 2008
I know some of you are in Australia, but I’m not sure which parts. You must, MUST, take advantage of the Unima World Puppet Festival in 2008. UNIMA is the international puppetry organization. It is the oldest continually operating arts organization in the world. This festival will have shit-hot puppetry at it. Man, I wish
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No need for wings, after all
The theater decided to move the dress rehearsal up a day, as in tomorrow. I explained that it was impossible to have the wings built and installed in the dress–which the designer also knew–by tomorrow. So, they are going to cut the puppetry wings. le sigh…
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Coraline’s torso
Once again, I return to the drawing. This is one of the places that I took a shortcut. Were I in a studio, I would have done a top-down view of Coraline in addition to the front and side to make it easier to delegate construction. Using the front and side view, I get the
Coraline’s arms
I started making Coraline’s body. I’m going to walk you through the process to make an arm; the rest of the body follows pretty similar principals. To start with, I take the initial scale drawing that I did of Coraline and turn it into a technical drawing. Which is to say that I decide where
Coraline in color
I did a color test on the botched head. The painterly quality tends to hide the glue spots, which is a bonus. Unfortunately, the hard line under her mouth shows where I didn’t get the seam tight enough. I’ll let you in on a secret. Coraline only has one ear. The way her hair is
Go see Stardust
I’ve returned from a preview screening of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust–tickets provided by the fabulous Livia Llewellyn. Since I got out of the theater, I’ve been wanting to go back. When was the last time that happened to me? Princess Bride? Goya in Bordeaux? But since then… I can’t remember one. I don’t want to gush
Coraline’s face
I mentioned that I am using a German paper-folding technique, created by Albrecht Roser, to create the Coraline face. As it happens, I have a pattern and instructions for a face up at my puppet company’s website. If you want to play along at home. It’s for Gerta from the Snow Queen. I start off
Yet more sayings from work
What we say. I think we’re going to have to rip their spines out. Want to try on my beaver? Man. That’s a seriously long rod The chicken lady isn’t safe around other puppets What am I supposed to do with this extra head? The beaver was too tight for him Look! Spanking the monkey
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Pop-up puppetry music video
This is a fine, fine use of pop-up books and puppetry. Spotted by John Scalzi at Ficlets.
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And the day started so nicely.
What a day. I’ll all in. We started by having brunch with fab girl, her friend Leslie, Jodi and Jed at Cafe Deville. It’s a nice big open space with good food, but the service was questionable. We kept having to send water glasses away because they had floaters in them. Ugh. After that, Rob
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In Coversation with a Bunraku Master
You’ll hear a lot of American puppeteers referring to Bunraku or Bunraku styled puppets. Bunraku was originally the name of the theater company, while the puppetry style was called ningyo joruri. Which is part of why I, personally, have a pet peeve when people say that they do bunraku puppets, because it seems like saying
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Basement dregs
We’re sorting the basement for the yardsale. Here are some of the things which will be in the sale. I built this cyclops head for Mt. Hood’s production of Odyssey. It has since been in Jack and the Beanstalk and then sat in my basement for years and years. It’s papier-mache and quite light. I
The Lawyer and Audrey II
I met with a lawyer yesterday about the continuing saga. He looked over the documents that I have on the case and said that Carlile was blowing smoke. His advice was to go ahead with the claim. If they deny the claim, then we’ll talk about sueing. Meanwhile, I contacted Marty Robinson, the man who
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Tyger
A hearty thank you to Karen Meisner for pointing out this lush bit of mixed media, directed by Guilherme Marcondes, which includes some very pretty puppetry.