While we were working on Loki, we kept joking that he looked like an alien caterpillar. Here is Jodi in front of the designs for Loki holding the naked puppet. In her right hand is the basswood control for the puppet’s head, minus the head. Her right hand is holding his hindquarters. The puppet has […]
Assembling rehearsal Loki for Odd and the Frost Giants. Read More »
On Friday I had two visitors from Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston to take a look at the puppets for their adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants. Rob Kimbro, the director and man who did the adaptation, and Jodi Bobrovsky, the props master for Stages, came to look at the rehearsal puppets and
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Sorry for the terrible photo. The pencil lines were too light to pick up and I was too lazy to go back and redraw it so you can see it. BUT this is the full scale side view of Odin as an eagle. You can see that I use two different colors of pencil. The
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For those reading along with the draft of The Transfigured Lady, I’ve posted Chapter 9. The front entrance of the Rutherford had never looked so attractive to Cora. For the past week they had been doing full rehearsals of the show and over the last few days had been adding the effects. Mr. Jernigan had
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Between now and March 9th you can enter to win one of three copies of Shades of Milk and Honey as part of their Locus Challenge. As part of our Locus Challenge, we are hosting a giveaway for three copies of Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal to three lucky readers in
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Here’s the rough design concept for the Odin puppet for the Stages Repertory Theater production of Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants. Odin was surprisingly difficult to design in this aesthetic and have him not look either cute or like Sam the Eagle. Really, I was annoyed by how hard this was. You can see one
Odin’s concept and paper trials. Read More »
I’m absolutely delighted to announce that I’ll be attending Baycon this year as their author Guest of Honor. I’ve heard such good things about Baycon, but haven’t had the opportunity to attend prior to this. It’s May 27 – May 30, if you’d like to come. Oh, and did I mention that one of my
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