Cicada Princess Full video
Cicada Princess was a short film completed by a team of artists using mostly puppets and hand built sets, with a bit of CG. Unlike traditional stop motion films, all of the puppet work was live action. I helped design the characters and environments, and with a small team, constructed about half of the sets in the film. I also puppeteered many of the scenes. I got to work with some amazing set builders and puppet fabricators Joe Loyola, Norm DeCarlo, Nicole Burch, Scott Nordlund, Ray Gilberti, Nina Parker. There are quite a few videos under the Stop Motion Puppets and Sets Playlist that have some behind the scenes, and how to videos and tutorials of the film being made. I m currently working on a children s book called To Touch The Sun, where the final images in the book will be photographs of the sets and puppets. I ll be documenting much of the project building, lighting and photographing the sets, behind the scenes stuff concerning story development, and book formatting, puppet
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