WW1 Trench . Research for puppet play

Puppet Hand Mechanic Test

WW1 Prosthetics

Saved by the Iron Cross

The Iron Cross Medal of Honor stopped a deadly shrapnell...

Research: WW1 Museum Rastatt

WW1 Grenades 

 

Research: WW1 Museum Rastatt

Trenches: Concept Art

Latex Mask

Latex mask for a short film project - sagging neck and nose piece.

Puppet Head Understructure

corps(e)13

Concept Art for "Trenches"

umbra vitae

Old buddies from the 90s

Some old photos from the early 90s.
The scarred head was my first paid FX job - a prop for a movie bar in Augsburg, Germany.
A smile is the best make up you can wear - me and my friends at KNB in Chatsworth, CA

My first creature ever...

Found an old photo of the first creature sculpt i ever did. I sculpted it out of wet clay and inserted a dental cast I stole from my brother and marbles for the eyes. (Not in the picture is my mother holding the "Thing" - rumpled and half sleeping, because I woke her up at three in the morning. I was afraid that the sculpt would crack before I could take a photo of it.)

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Footwraps

In WW1 the German Army gave its soldiers footwraps instead of socks. They protected against running sore, kept warm and absorbed sweat.

WW1 Tornister

Collecting for "Trenches"

Found an old box...

Found a dusty box with old stuff...
Puppet design for "The Steam Train" / Figurentheater Raphael Mürle

Unearthed

I started to collect original World War One items.
Important to get a feel for the materials and surfaces.

 

"Coraline" - Tiny Knitting

Puppet Design - "The racing steam train"

 

These are puppets I built for a German puppet theatre. The characters were highly deranged, insane and with split personalities. The design was a subtractive process, carving the heads out of wet clay and later rebuilding them in paper macheé.
The play: "The racing steam train" from Ignacy Witkiewicz