Guest post by Rob Kimbro We opened Odd and the Frost Giants on Tuesday morning with a great show in front of a wonderful crowd from Briscoe Jr. High. This morning we had our first elementary-age audience – 150 or so first graders. Definitely a different energy with that age. Various jokes and moments in […]
Odd and the Frost Giants – Up and Running Read More »
I will do process posts when I get home. Promise. Right now though I have a small invitation for folks based in Houston. Would you like to come see puppets Thursday? I can host a small group (no more than 5 to 10 people) for about forty-five minutes at 4:30. After that, I have to
Would you like to visit me and see some puppets? Read More »
I’m at Stages Theatre in Houston, now. First up, doing finish work on Loki before rehearsal tonight. # Just tossed Loki’s skin in the wash to shrink. # Stapled and glued Loki’s head to his neck. # Note: It is easier to put neck skin in place BEFORE attaching the ears. # Peeling the skin
Updates for 2011-04-12 Read More »
Thor’s construction for Odd and the Frost Giants is much like Loki’s but he is much, much bigger. Here is the “skin” for his face cut out of veneer. You can see a pair of scissors in the lower right of the frame that give a little bit of a sense of scale. Those are
Assembly of Thor’s head for Odd and the Frost Giants Read More »
I’m headed to Houston to spend the week with the cast of Odd and the Frost Giants. We’re doing intensive puppetry work while I’m there and I’m completing the puppets for performance. I’ve got Thor packed inside a trunk for travel to Houston. Loki is packed inside him, and their skins form a cushion. I
Travel day: Going to Houston to deliver the gods Read More »
Today I assembled Loki’s face for the Odd and the Frost Giants production and, unsurprisingly, it didn’t go well. He is the god of mischief after all. I had the pattern that I’d worked out for the rehearsal puppets. When I cut it out of the watercolor paper, it looked slightly odd. so I decided
Loki’s face, take one Read More »
Here’s a list of wordcounts and dates over the past couple of weeks for The Transfigured Lady. Hm… I wonder on which days I was building puppets? 02-25 1,442 02-26 1,228 02-27 5,358 02-28 1,602 03-01 2,060 03-02 672 03-03 71 03-04 3 03-05 0 03-06 534 03-07 529 03-08 694 03-09 708 03-10 4,404
Puppetry vs. writing: Why I am doing less puppetry now. Read More »
On Friday I had two visitors from Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston to take a look at the puppets for their adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants. Rob Kimbro, the director and man who did the adaptation, and Jodi Bobrovsky, the props master for Stages, came to look at the rehearsal puppets and
Assembling Thor for Odd and the Frost Giants Read More »
Sorry for the terrible photo. The pencil lines were too light to pick up and I was too lazy to go back and redraw it so you can see it. BUT this is the full scale side view of Odin as an eagle. You can see that I use two different colors of pencil. The
Odin assembly: Photos from Odd and the Frost Giants Read More »
Here’s the rough design concept for the Odin puppet for the Stages Repertory Theater production of Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants. Odin was surprisingly difficult to design in this aesthetic and have him not look either cute or like Sam the Eagle. Really, I was annoyed by how hard this was. You can see one
Odin’s concept and paper trials. Read More »
I wrote this up for Rob Kimbro, the director of Odd and the Frost Giants. He is auditioning actors and needs a rehearsal puppet. Loki is a very simple rod puppet. He has a rod in the head, a flexible foam body, and a rod in the tail. The puppeteer stands in full view of
Demo of Loki puppet for auditions Read More »
I’ve been researching material options today as well as looking at Thor’s body. I spent a little while also trying a couple of patterns for Loki’s face, so allow me to show you my progress and thinking to date. The idea with this one is to create a lightweight rib structure of polyethylene foam and
Thor’s body and playing with Loki’s face Read More »
For the next little while, I’ll be doing periodic posts about creating the puppets for a production of Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants at Stages Theatre in Houston Texas. Most of these posts are actually going to be written for Rob Kimbro, the playwright and director of the show, as well as the
A first concept for Thor’s head Read More »
I’m very happy to announce that I’ll be doing the puppet design for a production of Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants at Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, Texas. This adaptation is by Robert Kimbro. He and I have worked together on other projects in the past and I’m incredibly excited to be involved
I’m designing puppets for Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants Read More »