Creature Symposium: Final Day Photos
Aug. 11th, 2009 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseOkeedoke, i've finally gotten back to NC, leapt back into the swing of things at work, and uploaded my final round of photos from the symposium. These third day images have some puppet-construction coverage (both small-scale and large-scale), as well as pix of some of the participants' finished Varaform heads.
I apologize for the less-than-stellar quality of some of the lecture images--i was taking them largely without flash from the back of their blackbox theatre where the demos were held, so some aren't ideal but i think are still useful to see. And, most of the mid-workshop images are much better quality.
Holly Cole lectures on Muppet-style puppets, demonstrating the separate head/body concept
Partially-furred donkey puppet head
Bodies for tabletop donkey puppets
Holly Cole illustrates the scaled-up donkey head mask's jaw mechanism
OU's Propmaster Tom Fiocchi discusses the "Nana" 10' puppet support rig,
while Brandon Kirkham (inside it) demonstrates how she works
View of the "atlas backpack" rig support inside "Nana"
Further inside, here's the helmet rig, which allows the operator to control her head motions
David Russell helps Dixon Reynolds of SUNY-Fredonia remove his Varaform goat mask from its matrix sculpture
Somebody's partly-Varaformed sheep...
(nobody was with it to ask when i snapped this pic, nor any name on the base board)
Bear by Donette Perkins of Brigham Young University
Bear by Deanne DeWitt, also of Brigham Young University
One of David Russell's finished rabbit heads from The Velveteen Rabbit
I have to say, one of the things i really appreciated about this symposium is their focus on safe work practices, as well as safe costume engineering practices. They had a spray booth for spraying, and a Barging station outdoors, where they still would not let anyone use it who had not brought a fit-tested respirator. They talked about cooling vests and locations of hidden vent holes for air circulation, building ice-pack pockets into the bodies at key locations, and were teaching a method that allowed for 360-degree vision for the wearer. Awesome!
Of course, this isn't the final post on the topic, as I'll be finishing up my rabbit and donkey (hopefully over the next two weeks) and posting about how that goes. And, my "official" article that i'm cowriting with Dixon Reynolds in Sightlines will have a lot more text, too, so that'll also be coming out in the fall issue.
I apologize for the less-than-stellar quality of some of the lecture images--i was taking them largely without flash from the back of their blackbox theatre where the demos were held, so some aren't ideal but i think are still useful to see. And, most of the mid-workshop images are much better quality.
Holly Cole lectures on Muppet-style puppets, demonstrating the separate head/body concept
Partially-furred donkey puppet head
Bodies for tabletop donkey puppets
Holly Cole illustrates the scaled-up donkey head mask's jaw mechanism
OU's Propmaster Tom Fiocchi discusses the "Nana" 10' puppet support rig,
while Brandon Kirkham (inside it) demonstrates how she works
View of the "atlas backpack" rig support inside "Nana"
Further inside, here's the helmet rig, which allows the operator to control her head motions
David Russell helps Dixon Reynolds of SUNY-Fredonia remove his Varaform goat mask from its matrix sculpture
Somebody's partly-Varaformed sheep...
(nobody was with it to ask when i snapped this pic, nor any name on the base board)
Bear by Donette Perkins of Brigham Young University
Bear by Deanne DeWitt, also of Brigham Young University
One of David Russell's finished rabbit heads from The Velveteen Rabbit
I have to say, one of the things i really appreciated about this symposium is their focus on safe work practices, as well as safe costume engineering practices. They had a spray booth for spraying, and a Barging station outdoors, where they still would not let anyone use it who had not brought a fit-tested respirator. They talked about cooling vests and locations of hidden vent holes for air circulation, building ice-pack pockets into the bodies at key locations, and were teaching a method that allowed for 360-degree vision for the wearer. Awesome!
Of course, this isn't the final post on the topic, as I'll be finishing up my rabbit and donkey (hopefully over the next two weeks) and posting about how that goes. And, my "official" article that i'm cowriting with Dixon Reynolds in Sightlines will have a lot more text, too, so that'll also be coming out in the fall issue.
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Date: 2009-08-11 03:24 pm (UTC)Maybe if you are able to help your boss with finding sources/resources on this project, he would be open to also letting you get involved with some of the hands-on construction, too!
Good luck with the big monster/dragon/dinosaur!
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Date: 2009-08-11 04:25 pm (UTC)It's been a busy summer, so it has been hard to do development but once September is over we should be able to really work on new projects.