Making the eyes
Once we had the head ready for the character, the next issue to tackle was the eyes! The initial idea was to make replacement eyes, as...
The heads
Once the body of the puppet was completed it was necessary to decide how to produce the heads. We needed 3 heads as there were 3 puppets,...
Puppet evolution
The new version of the puppet was made after taking into consideration the conclusions we had with the tests done in the set: 1 - Arms...
Tiny hands !
Once we had started the construction of the puppet we also started the hands. In the beginning the test hands were made with the "bad"...
Constructing the Big Hands
With our puppets almost ready, it was time to move on to the "big" hands: We knew that the size of the puppet would be a problem for the...
The Background
Black or White? Our story takes place on a platform floating in the middle of nowhere. In order to have the illusion of an endless space...
Painting the Set
As the platform and pillars are supposed to look like cement or a similar material, it was logical that we would choose the color grey....
The Set - Construction
Looking at the sketches of our set it might look quiet easy to construct it: a squared platform with four pillars. But it was not that...
Puppet trials
Once the character design was done, we started working on making the puppet. The first version, although not completely ´real´ in...
Threads threads threads
The time came to start testing the construction of the puppets and how the threads would look on camera. This was a very important part...