Because when a friend comes to you and says: “hey, I need a giant snake puppet for a performance” of course you say yes. The body is made from a velveteen and and a lycra, and “reinforced” with a muslin backing so it wouldn’t stretch poorly when stuffed. The lycra material was also used to back the eyes! I used some foam to structure the head, and some thin plastic to give the inside of the mouth smooth flatness. The fangs were made from polymer clay bake, and painted with a clear lacquer to give them a bit of a shiny “wet look”. The tongue is a bit of pink suede. Although I’ve made a bunch of monsters, they’ve all been made to be “photographic props” basically, and never meant for live action/puppetry. This is my first proper puppet!!! Also,they’ll be using the snake for another performance coming up!
Here’s a trailer we made for the last night of Orpheus the Mariner, starting at 5 tonight in Scarborough as part of coastival. Why not go and check it out, it’s going to be awesome!
Just a bit more weathering but he’s just about finished, and then FaceBones gets added to the Metalocalypse shadow puppet pile. Can you guess whose next on the gottafinishthisfuckingthing block? He’s pretty fucking giant. He hates dentists. He’s drank bleach. He makes really bad girlfriend choices. Oh and he held a political office once.
I went to the Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance exhibit at the Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts today!! I took WAY more photos than will fit into a single post, so I’ll be dividing them up throughout the week. First up is skekGra and urGoh’s puppet show because I am totally biased but also it’s amazing ❤
Fun little things:
-They’re way bigger than you’d think they are! I guess because we’re thinking of them in relation to our own hands rather than larger puppet hands
- You can see where the urSkek flips over into the castle
-The amount of detail even on just these little things is absurd- the Gra puppet in particular has so much more going on than you can see in the show (though curiously yep, no nail)
-SkekGra’s gloves are a textured fabric, not knitted. I refuse to accept this, they’re still knitted in my head
Revisiting#LAIKAxPAM, where #Coraline fans got a rare opportunity to examine actual props and costumes from the film up-close—and admire the sumptuous detail work. [Via Facebook]
Gold Horned Boglin kings now available at www.walmart.com these are exclusives at Walmart and there are less than 500 each still available get them now they will soon be gone.
::Mystic in the Desert:: . Something different for a change and also to remind you that I have not totally abandoned tribute-focused-artworks ;) I just had these artist grants and creating „Luna & Nova“ demanded a lot of my personal time this year. . Now about this new piece: I Managed to finalize this painting of the mystic from the Dark Crystal that I had started earlier this year. It is based on a landscape-painting of Christ by Ivan Kramskoi from 1872. I think it is fun to compare these two images side-by-side so feel free to swipe for it ^.^ . I nearly overlooked this great composition because it is simply centered but it focused on elliptic enclosures, for example: the floating stones in the foreground underline a good starting point for the outer elliptic enclosure. My version just added to it and changed the shape of the elliptic enclosures instead of circles in the original that goes around the figure. . Actually the mystic and Christ have a lot in common and I found it fitting to go with that direction, without being too much cliché. At least I hope so ;) Thinking about this further, it would make totally sense to do a painting of SkekMal the Hunter, UrVa’s counterpart… hmm . . . #darkcrystal #UrVa #Uru #mystic #fanart #tribute #Kramskoi #Christ #inceptionism #arsfantasio #digitalart #desertlandscape #skekmal #classicart #fantasyart #creaturedesign #henson #puppets #brianfroud (hier: THRA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG5WepJjJbm/?igshid=10f1tbsh1cxbr
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