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...
Light!
Setting up the light took much longer than we expected. As the background is black, the whole set looked quite dark in general. We knew...
Hands - first approaches
When we started testing different structures for the big hands, we didn't have the proportions or the materials very clear. Even thought...
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...
Sound
Right from the beginning, we conceived the sound to be an essential part of our film. We wanted the sounds to tell the story in another...