Puppets pt. 5

We like to entitle this picture: "The Dangerous Duality of Nazi Mysticism", and it is a picture of the two finished puppets. Josef with his gun, and Karl making the Vulcan Salute; Live long and prosper indeed.

And here is the finished Grandmother. Isn't she a beauty... Women, some say age like wine, it matures with grace and beauty... until one point where it gets sour and lonely, but note that this hasn't happened to the grandmother yet.

A family portrait! The finished puppets together in rapture...

Behold; Ann sowing the costumes for the Grandmother, making it work, taking it across that one bridge, to quote the Macho Man Randy Savage.

Johan, in agonizing desperation.... gotta make that nazi Luger pistol (and gotta make it look good)... Will it happen? Will it look amazing? Will it be everything Johan has hoped it would be? Keep reading and watching!

Oh dear... wait for it.... wait for it....

Eureka! The finished piece! O, lordy...

Puppet Department

The puppet department is winding down after aeons of chaotic insanity. But behold: The product of everybody's hard work.

Here is the finished puppet of Samek. What a beauty!


Would you believe it! The beautiful mother, Yetta in all her grace.


The flying bird – roaming the heavens up above.


The walking bird, ready to replace or be replaced by the flying bird in times of the Great Transmutation from one to the other.

Thus the two soldiers and the grandmother needs to be finished before all the puppets are done. Huzzah. Here is some pictures from the Puppet Department.

Ann is defying the laws of interstellar pace whilst sowing the costumes. It is a job that requires a great deal of patience and a wee whiff of extraordinary concentration – for the clothe has a mind of its own, and is not always easy to control. On this picture above Ann is shoving needles in one of the Germans uniforms, making it ready... for the world of possibilities.

Fighting against time, Johan is working on the Grandmother's wire armature. She has gone through a cosmetic hell – but we have finally found a design we like, and Johan has been shaping her face like a Hollywood plastic surgeon... ...beautiful she will be. Graceful she will walk the face of the Earth.

Thinking about the exotic, yet cooling effect of Netto's white wine, Henni is painting the hands of the Grandmother. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and because I just thought of the Lord I will now quote the Bible: “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under the heaven”... A time to work, and a time to drink white wine!

It is with heavy heart that we said farewell to our dearest Hanna. She has returned to her nest, where she will disembark on a journey to new heights. As a farewell gift Johan and I made a little Agnostic Chicken sculpture for her to bring along, and to remember us, and remember to come back. In the words of the great Oz-man: See you on the other side!

And here, a little picture of Hanna & Henni; the ladies in red, on Hanna's last working day:

Puppets pt. 3 "The bird and a Nazi"

Like the T1000 reassembling it self after being frozen and shot by Arnold, Things are beginning to come together in the puppet derpartment.

Else has been doped on vaporizing glue for days and days, dazed and confused. She has now finished gluing the feathers on the bird. Now Henni is painting the beaks and feet.

Beneath this text follows some pictures of Else's achievement and a Nazi surprise:

(The walking bird testing its tunes).


(The flying bird preparing to land).


(A little close-up with some blur...).

Tha flyin' bird ARMATURE

Hanna just finished the armature for the flying bird. Epic indeed.

Armatures.

Last week we finally got the armatures from John Wright! Here are some pictures we took of the armatures infront of a background painting test Else did.

(And then: A photo of the armatures on a white background).

1st human eyes test!

Thus Johan has been working on some pictures to test the actors' eyes.
The first two pictures are of Samek (the boy) with my little brothers, Hjalte's eyes.
The last picture is of Yetta (the mother) with Ene's eyes. The heads are from the maquettes, and when cast the will offcourse have hair and look even more neat!

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Greetings from the swampy realms of the Wiredfly Headquarters! Things are still progressing with the pace of a wee bit tired but yet agile moose!



(Hanna is working on hands of different shapes. There is also a beak and the head of the mother).





(Sarah making the bricks for the walls. Now presented in two different angled photos).



(Herr Strandgaard working on props).

(Tore has started on building the roof for one of the buildings).

I will update the blog later today with test photos, where Johan has composited eyes of potential actors on the maquette heads Hanna has made.

Till then....

tchüss!

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A li'l friday update from WF.HQ:
Today we got CRAZY amounts of oilbased clay with the mail. Two big boxes indeed! We also got a scale that Hanna is using, as I write, to measure stuff for the mold.
We have talked with the actress Ene, who played the mother in the pace video we did to test the pace and the rythm in the movements and the editing. She was very interested in letting us use her eyes for the puppets. I don't know if this has been mentioned on this blog yet - but we will composit real human eyes on the puppets. This will offcourse look awesome!!! So now we are making tests to see if Ene's eyes will "fit" the puppet. More on this as it developes.



(A portrait of Ene, that she sent us to test her eyes on the puppets).



(Johan and an armaturemaker named John Wright have mailed weird drawings back and forth concerning the armatures. Above here is one of the pictures. The armatures isn't finished yet - but O the glory when they are!).

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(Sarah taking the buildings to the next level).



(Johan and Tore talking about a "test-table" in the room where Tore has arranged all our POWER TOOLS and other tools).



(A work drawing of the bird done by Katrine. Unfortunatly the picture is out of focus, even though I have tried to sharpen it in photoshop).



(Herr Strandgaard working on the sewing machine for the apartment).



(Hanna modelling the head of the boy for the maquette).



(Johan & Hanna talking about the maquettes).