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The Family Rumsey
The Rumsey family looking their finest. Read more…
Phauntlefail and the Finish Line
It’s been a bi-polar week or two here at Frown Town HQ. Phauntleroy’s inaugural run made clear a fundamental design flaw undermining the entire ’stillborn fetus in a jar puppet’ operation. While steps are being taken to work around this failing, the rest of the puppets are finally coming together. Read more…
Finishing Phauntly & The Family Resemblance
Phauntleroy’s finally finished! Almost. Mostly. Not really. Never mind. Read more…
Making Fetuses Dance
When last we saw our fetus friend he was a wee foam doll and not much more. It’s taken longer than expected — which is to be expected — but I’ve finally got the little guy kicking. Read more…
The Stillborn Stillborn and the Second Draft
My first failed baby failed. Fortunately, an improved design and evolving techniques should yield less cringe-worthy results. Read more…
Puppet Head Templates
The transition from maquettes to foam heads looms. We need to scale up a huge amount while preserving the character design as much as possible and incorporating the changes we decided on from the maquettes. Everyone loves tracing, so I whipped up some big head templates to use as cut out guides. Read more…
Puppet Head Maquettes
To help with the foam head carving and to get a visceral feel for the concept art in three dimensions, I created little maquettes out of Sculpey. Read more…