To make up for the giant marionette that didn’t attack Reykjavik. Here’s some footage of a real giant marinette. In fact, this is likely what inspired the faux marionette. Enjoy.
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To make the body, I started by creating a fullsize mockup of the bear’s torso. Next, I covered the form in cloth and established the basic fit. In this photo, I’m attaching the boning. Because I am making a pattern of the bear, I’ll pin everything into place, then label each piece of boning and
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Unfortunately, the battery on my camera died so I don’t have very many pictures of this part of the process. I first removed the lower jaw and then carved out an upper and lower palate for the bear. While I’ll fiberglass all of it, I’ll wind up cutting some away later giving the bear a
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I don’t understand it. Helicopters? Giant marionettes? How in the name of all that is holy did I miss this? There are so many pieces of footage for it. How? How did I miss this? Edited to add: Ah. I missed it because it didn’t happen. No one in Reykjavik saw it and it’s not
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Once I had the life mask of Rob finished, I was ready to start the sculpture. My first step was to do a full size drawing of the bear to make certain that I had the proportions correct. Gummi Þor had already done a sculpture to demonstrate how the proportions would have to change from
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I’m building a polar bear costume for a childrens’ hospital here, and for the head, needed a life cast of someone’s face to build on. Back in Portland, I have several life casts of different people that I sculpt on when I’m making a mask. Wigforms are lovely things for wigs, but they are not
I read the discussion on Miss Snark, the literary agent about Sock Puppets and I’m saddened to see puppets once again taking a bashing. Back in the early days of the blog I’d surf around the net to see what people were saying about me. One of the recurring themes I found both hilarious and
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Much to my surprise I found this in the paper yesterday morning. I was going to scan in the photo, but Fréttablaðið has it on their website. Upptökum á annarri þáttaröð sjónvarpsþáttanna um Latabæ lauk nú um mánaðamótin. Alls voru teknir upp átján nýir þættir à kvikmyndaveri Latabæjar à Garðabæ og hafa um 130 kvikmyndagerðarmenn,
To kind of shake things up a little, I thought I’d explain what these things mean this time. Things said at work. I need to get his head in my lap. Will it be faster if we just take her arms off? What kind of head do you want? Our director said, “I need more
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I wrote this post a couple of months ago, but didn’t publish it because the episode had not been released yet. Now that it’s shown in the U.K…. but don’t worry. There are still no plot spoilers. — After we wrapped today, everyone trooped upstairs to watch Haunted Castle. It was so long ago that
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What a day, what a day. Julie normally does the live hands for Jodi, but she wasn’t in today because it didn’t look like he’d need live hands. And then…it started as a simple thing. Can the puppet tap his finger against his head? It looked bad with rods, and Jodi had to enter the
Holy cow! Check out the trailer for Dante’s Inferno – The epic toy theater film of the classic journey through hell. All of it was filmed live, with no post-production manipulation. Gorgeous. I’ll be very excited to see it. Thanks to PuppetVision for pointing it out.
As you might imagine, the characters on the show spend a lot of time eating “sports candy.” The puppets can’t actually take a bite, so I wind up doing one of my favorite theater tricks. The apple already has bite in it but that part of the apple is held upstage so the audience can’t
Today was long. Julie and I started the morning working on the floor. Some how the camera angle seemed to keep dropping with each shot so that it felt like they were going to have to dig a hole in the floor in order to hide us. Think about it this way. What the camera
I was lying on the floor assisting Thor during a big shot. I heard Jonathan shout, “Head, Mary, head!” I could not figure out how my head could possibly be in the frame, since I was lying on the floor, when a cart slammed into the top of my head. Ow. I’ve got a lovely