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Our Puppet design and construction workshop wrapped up with some frantic safety pins and flying scraps of fur. There’s never enough time to finish a puppet just the way you’d like, but at least these makers have peered into the bewitching rabbit hole that is puppetry. On the last day everyone took turns to puppeteer…
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Thinking in multiple planes can really melt your brain. It’s Day 4 of our Puppet Design and Construction intensive, and everyone’s working on their mechanisms. Mads (pictured) set herself the challenging brief of swivelling eyeballs and moving eyebrows for her rabbit, all operated with one hand. The process of moving from a 2D drawing into…
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Puppet makers, meet puppets: Day 1 of an Intensive Workshop at Terrapin. Over the next five weeks I’ll be guiding six promising makers who have skills in a range of areas – painting, shoe-making, carving, feltwork – but haven’t had a lot of exposure to the obscure and miscellaneous skill-set that is puppetmaking. Using Jon…
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As a self-confessed Luddite I admit that there are some transformative apps out there. Since learning about the whiteboard app Miro in a Disaster Design course I’ve been applying it to collaborative creative processes, and it’s solving many issues. Working remotely or internationally, lack of contact between writers/designers/composers, ideas that fall by the wayside, performers…
