Workshop and Study visit with Glocal Filmschool

Last week ten students and two teachers arrived at my studio. To listen to me talk about my work, my studio, the projects and my personal history. After a few hours of talking and showing puppets, masks, props and sets we had a workshop with animation and a workshop with build up puppets.

Walk a mile in my shoes

Working on some short animated segments for the documentary "Walk a mile in my shoes" by the talanted Johanna Wagner.

- The forest -

Sculpting the trees for the forest out of styrofoam and papier maché

Building the animationtable where the forest will reside

Creating a forest floor surface with glue and saw dust and trying out the placement of the trees

Creating the ground for the forest background

Trying out the hole witch will be turned into quicksand 

The trees are in place and the shelf is in place for holding the puppet beneath the set

Starting to work on the background forest

Creating the ground

Starting to look like a forest floor.

Trying out the scenery

 Starting to look like a forest. Just some paint on the trees, watereffects on the ground and other details left

 The vision is slowly coming to life

Walk a mile in my shoes

Working on some short animated segments for the documentary "Walk a mile in my shoes" by the talanted Johanna Wagner.

- The arm -

Making a bigger version of the statues arm for closeups out of a simple wire armature, cotton and liquid latex

 Building up shapes and details

 Finishing up

 Painting the hand with a pax paint mixture

 Creating a stonelike effekt with latex, sand, dirt, moss and paint

 The finished hand

 ..and the backside

Walk a mile in my shoes

Working on some short animated segments for the documentary "Walk a mile in my shoes" by the talanted Johanna Wagner.

- The puppet armature -

The almost finished armature for the statue like charachter

Since he will crawl up from quicksand I will have to be able to use the upper body separate

A little rig for the upper body with adjustable height so that I can animate his ascend from the quicksand

trying out the size of the quicksand 

size comparizon on set