It’s been like ten years since I have been able to view my thesis as anything but a crappy digitized version where many of the frames got lost and the resolution was pitiful…. But I FINALLY got the thing re-digitized from the original VHS tape it was on…

You have to remember, I filmed this using a Bolex camera…

Here’s the mask I made for Halloween 2008… I used Hydrocal as the mold material, and Cold Foam/ Latex as the cast. I do not own a kiln, so I needed to work with the Cold Foam. Since the air bubbles are far bigger & pick up less detail run RAMPANT in cold foam, I needed…

This was for a short film called “Tux”.

Starring a back from the dead-washed up actor named Tuxton Squawkmire…who happens to be a Fiordland Crested Penguin. SO ok the project didn’t go anywhere. But it was fun making this puppet which had a custom blinking-eyes mechanism & flapping wings! Click in to see more!