EF 2012 PUPPETS!
by furtech
I was very excited at the chance to help out with the puppet show at EF this year. I've seen several of their shows and- at the end of each- wished I could have been involved.
This year they were making the transition to much larger rod puppets that were custom-made for this show. They needed an extra hand with this, so I volunteered. Watching the show come together, even from many miles away, was a thrill. All of those involved do so much work and all of it for one performance only. Thousands of man-hours for one show. Amazing.
I made a number of puppets for the show, all of which were either sold in the art auction or bought by the show to use in future productions.
Of the puppets I made, my favorite is Caius Gavius Rufus: he is a wolf and the villain of the show. My inexperience with puppets and not being able to work with the current batch of puppets meant that I ended up making Caius twice: Caius the First was a good 25% too large. Caius II worked much better. Villains are cool to make!
I was also pleased with the Hare and the Boar. I'm still fairly new to puppet-making, so I took this opportunity to experiment as much as possible. Here you will see the ten or so puppets I made.
The show in incredible: you can see the lineup of puppets in some of these shots. It was awsome to see all of them together in one room!
The show was wonderful and the cast and crew took well-deserved bows.
