Land Lover (2024)
This is Miles, the hybrid ball and socket & wire armature puppet!
Magnetic replacement jaws with replacement mouths printed onto clear acetate. Silicone cast wire arms & hands. Face was hand sculpted, then resin cast and painted with acrylic.
AAH mouth shape and widest jaw shape
A painstaking practical mirror shot
Miles feeding a foam cutout Long John puppet
Connected to a winder rig
Holes in silicone hands to attach props!
"oo" mouth shape
Propoxy eyelids attached with petroleum jelly
MAKING OF:
Face Sculpt!
Poseable eyes in head
Paint job!
Molding process using plaster
Hand armature with thread & resin joints coated in paint pre-casting
Casting tests
Casting beige silicone
Arms!
Shoes!
Costuming progress
CINCH!
First stand test!
Pigeonholed (2023)
Bird puppets from my second year short film at UCLA's Animation Workshop!
Felt puppets made from balsa wood and wire armature. Magnetic replacement eyes and beaks, latex coated legs.
Sam Spadebill, a "green" pigeon new to the noir world.
Peggy Peacock, the femme fatale jazz singer at "BirdHaus."
The BOUNCER, a jilted lover of Peggy Peacock.
MAKING OF:
Other puppet & Sculpture Work!
Daughter Puppet from "Home Cooked"
Mother Puppet from "Home Cooked"
French Skeleton Boy from "Lil' Death"
Lil' Death Armature
Hand Puppet
Robot Puppet
Taylor Swift Sculpture
Spider-Ham Sculpture
Ted Lasso & Coach Beard Sculpture
