Hollow, Anyone There?

Animated Short for Animation WildCard Episode 24 Spooktacular

Process and up close photos of details on the set and puppets. Skeleton puppet is made of wire and felt, Red is a ball join armature with felt.

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Fabrication Process

Photos and videos of the process making a puppet with adjustable LED glowing eyes and three different sets for this animation.

Final Bedroom This is the bedroom compeltely set up ready for shooting	Bedroom detail Up close of bed with crocheted blanket and stuffy with details	Puppet with LED lights The lights were adjustable in brightness and were incased in a 3D printed head covered in felt
Head removed This is the light without the head covering	Desk Chair Rolling desk chair	Art Supplies Minature sketch book and penicls
Desk General desk set up	Bed Crochet minature turlte stuffy on bed	Snow Globe The snow globes were made with resin
Snow Globes	Bedroom in process	Book Case
Tunnel Tunnel scene shot using camera track

Fabrication Process-July 2022

These are process photos taken during the production of Vale. Showing the process of set building and puppet designing.

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Heart set Rotatable heart set	Heart set (inside)	IMG_6612.HEIC
Heart set in progress 1	Heart set in progress 2	Heart set in progress 3
Heart set in progress 4	Heart set in progress 5	Heart set in progress 6
Heart set base	Solus puppet	Solus replaceable faces
Solus replaceable face

Fabrication Process-April 2023

This animation was made for Animation Wild Card Episode 22 Season 4

Turlte Puppets These puppets are crocheted around wire armatures	Turtle puppet 1 crochet base	Turtle puppet 2 Wire armature, crochet around armature
Turtle puppet 3 Sewing on limb and stuffing puppet along the way	Set 1 Kinetic sand was used in the animation process	Set 2 turtle eggs also crocheted
Set 3	Set 4	Set 5 water animation made using crocheted waves
Turtle puppets

Fabrication Process - May 2021

Lucid Dreams was my senior thesis from Maryland Institute College of Art.

Set Shot of set with lighting	Set Design A general sketch to get idea of set color scheme and style	Base of cavern Cavern set made from half cut cylinder and papermache
Cavern set After adding papermache, add variety of objects	Cavern set process	Hands Multple hands were made using different process, all had wire base
Hand one of the various hands	Bed Hand sewn bedding with silhouette cut bed	Stainglass window 1 Silhouette cut stainglass window
Stainglass window 2 Using medium gel on clear acetate to create an old stainglass windw effect	Stone floor Using paper mache and cardboard used to make flooring	Base set
Bedroom behind the scenes	Close up bed	Close up bed 2
Oringal character design The orginal sketch of the main character Ophelia	Wire Armature Wire armature used for puppet, replaceable arm and legs	Character Head Silicone head with wax thread hair
Base Sculpt Orginal sculpt of character head	Head cast Using silicone to create a cast of head to create multiple heads	Dress Hand sewn dress
Puppet Silicone based puppet with wax thread hair	Ophelia

Fabrication Process- April 2023

Thumbelina was made for my final project at Stop-motion 2 with Aardman Academy.

Behind the scene Thumbelina	Thumbelina Puppet is crocheted with wire armature	Thumbelina with mouth Felt mouth
Thumbelina mouth Set of felt mouths used to animate lip sync	Thumbelina

Variety of Crocheted pupepts

Chihiro Puppet based off character from Spirited Away	Thumbelina	Bunny Winter bunny with hand sewn chair
Turtles	Baby turtle	Space bunny

Finished puppet Life size paper puppet	Puppet build 1 Board paper used to make puppet	Puppet build 2 Joints made moveable by wire coils
Puppet build 3	Heart puppet 1 Heart made movebale with different pieces	Heart puppet 2
Heart puppet 3	Puppet build 4 Inside puppet padded with fabric and yarn	Puppet build 5 Chest able to be opened
Puppet build 6	Puppet build 7 Interchangeable fingers, hands and arms	Puppet build 8
Puppet build 9	Puppet build 10