The whole 'Rudolph' scene in David Jones windows 2006.

Photo courtesy of Silverspot who took the photo in Dec 2006. www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/sets/72157627374956322/

Santa's office at the North Pole - another Christmas scene designed and created by StudioM in 2005 and for which StudioM still retains the copyrights. This photo was taken at our shed studio BEFORE the scene's sale to a small local Promotions company, which later added some simple up and down motion by means of inserting a mechanised rotating shaft amd cam system above the scene to pull the strings attached to the puppets and objects. It has been exhibited widely by this company ever since. However, subsequent claims by this company and its director, or any other involved in its exhibition, to be its 'creator', the 'mastermind' or 'creative force' behind it are COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyrights. It was designed and made in StudioM's workshop with the mice and elves made by Juanita Wellings to our drawings, specification and design in her Clifton home. The book on shelf right side gives acknowledgements to StudioM as the creator and designer and by copyright law, should still be there, untouched, unchanged and visible to the public.

Elves made by Juanita Wellings Clifton also acknowledged on book. Original drawings, sketches and specifications for this and our other scenes are retained by StudioM as is copyright.

The first of the 'Mice getting presents' scenes StudioM designed and made. This one went to USA on a promotions tour, after we sold it to a promotions company. The mice in the house are delighted at Santa delivering presents - they think they are for them and are enjoying the new toys and the new abode into which they are quickly moving.

Copyright held by StudioM. Credits to the true creator and designer should still be visible on the books which are out of sight on far left of mantlepiece and also on the newspaper. See the set for closeup photos of these.

Designed and made by StudioM at our workshop in Cooroy/Tinbeerwah hinterland. Moral rights/ copyright held RGM StudioM. Sold, AFTER photo was taken, to a Promotions company which put in some simple up and down motions to the scene by inserting overhead a simple rotating shaft and cams system, to which fishing lines are connected between the cams and to objects below, allowing a rise and fall motion as the cams rotate.Subsequent claims by parties other than StudioM to being the scene's creator, 'the mastermind' or 'creative force' behind it are COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright. The scene was designed and made by StudioM at our workshop.

She also made the elves as well as the mice to our working drawings, sketches and specifications. StudioM also commissioned her to make for us, a squashed out Santa face made with lycra covering to allow for the stretch when shaping facial features. We gave drawings and specific instructions to Juanita as to how to make just the face and asked that she make it around a piece of broomstick or dowelling so that we could drop it into Santa's hollow torso that we had made. To the face, we added the hair and hat, Santa's torso which we secured - he has no legs - and then added his arms and hands etc. All originals of sketches, design drawings, instructions and communications etc are held by StudioM. Mice made to our instructions and drawings. Juanita added her own style decorations to some of the girly mice.

Is this such a good idea? A close up of the sleeping, unsuspecting, snoring Santa as the elves give him a purple tipped mohawk. Not quite what he expected when he went into the North Pole Hairdressers shop for a qick trim and tidy up before his 'Big Night Out' gig.. He shouldn't have gone to sleep and trusted those elves. Some people just can't be trusted to do the right thing! Especially arty types intent on their own agenda.

Scene designed and made by Studio M at our home workshop in Tinbeerwah/ Cooroy hinterland 2005.

AFTER photo was taken, this scene was sold to a promotions company which has since exhibited it widely in Santa Grottos, department store windows and shopping centres. Claims by this company and its director to being 'the mastermind' and 'creative force' behind it are completely false, misleading and an infringement of our copyright which is maintained by RGM StudioM 2005. They had no influence on or input into the scene whatsoever as seen in these photos. All original design sketches, drawings and specifications to the dollmaker as well as copyrights are held by the designers and artists of StudioM.

StudioM commissioned a dollmaker, Juanita Wellings in Clifton QLD, to make Santa's head and hands for them to place in the scene. She also made the elves and mice to our working specifications, drawings and design. All original sketches, specifications and communications re this scene are held by StudioM along with copyright.

The Jingle bells scene that StudioM designed and made at our home workshop. Taken at the promotions company premises after it had been picked up from our studio. We had secured the puppets into place for the animators to string them and add their motorised mechanism on the top in order to create some simple up and down motion. We had yet to make the collar for the horse. StudioM was contracted by the Promotions company employed by David Jones to design and provide a presentation for the six Christmas windows of David Jones. Once the design was accepted, StudioM was then contracted to make the scenes for them to the stage ready for lighting and animation. We oversaw all of the components that went into these scenes. Photo taken at the Promotions company factory AFTER its pick up from StudioM. The Promotions company then put in motion - simple up and down movements operated by an overhead rotating shaft system with irregular cams which have fishing lines, as seen here, attached to various objects below. As the cams rotate around, the fishing lines are pulled up and then drop, allowing movement in the objects below. We positioned and secured the elves and mice in place for the movements as designed for in our presentation, ready for the animators to attach the fishing lines. The motor mechanism has been put on the top with a black fascia board to cover it.

Scene designed and made by StudioM at our workshop in 2006 under contract by the Promotions company. The original drawings, presentation material, working drawings, preliminary design sketches, specifications to puppetmaker and others - designed, drawn and held by StudioM.

Juanita made elves and mice in Clifton to our instructions and drawings. Have a look at our set containing some of the photos we took of the scene's construction at our studio, from the delivery of the steel frame sections with their bare undercoated plwood sides, to their eventual pickup and placement onto a truck when completed.

www.flickr.com/photos/rgmstudiom/sets/72157594460492921/

Visit www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/sets/72157627374956322/ for many close up photos taken of the scenes sited in the David Jones windows.

The two turtle doves which we made, birds with turtle shells - the number 2 is in the shape of a a worm positioned in the beak of the top dove, which is trying to drop it into the open beak of the dove below. The number 8 is in the barn gable, number 11 is made by the two posts beside the main piper, the actual number three is part of the registration number on the Citroen 2CV behind the french chook house. We drew the templates for the pipers and then painted them. I also drew all the templates for the happy maids and cows, hundreds of pieces for every forearm, bucket, tail, head etc. It took days to draw them for the cows,maids,pipers,drummers and lords. I also had to supply drawings and instructions for the geese,swans,hens, partridge, ladies and call centre calling birds. We designed and created the scene at our workshop - all of the moving 2D puppets and others were designed and templated, adjusted/ added to and positioned by StudioM. Except for the maidens and cows, all of the 2D pieces were painted by StudioM, as we had designed and drawn. All drawings, sketches, designs, specification notes and actual templates are held by StudioM.

Knitting elf, the mouse school, the 'suspended from school' mouse and an elf writing lines on blackboard - all part of the 'Elfy School' scene designed and made by StudioM at our tinshed workshop at Tinbeerwah. Copyright StudioM - RGM - still held.

The scene was sold to an animation and Promotions company AFTER this photo was taken but without transfer of copyright. The Promotions company later put in simple motions by the insertion overhead of a rotating shaft and cam system to which fishing lines were attached between the cams and objects below, causing the objects to move up and down slightly with every rise and fall of the cam. Simple basic method used by puppet animators. Any claims by this company and its director to be the 'mastermind' and 'creative force' behind it are completely false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of copyright. It has been widely displayed in their promotions and exhibited many times. The first time they saw the scene was as you see it here and they bought the scene AFTER this photo was taken. After this photo was taken and before the scene was delivered, I added a bucket of sudsy water to the elf hanging off the window above the door. All original sketches, designs, instructions to puppetmaker are retained by StudioM as is copyright.

Juanita from Clifton made elves and mice to our drawings and instructions.

'The 12 days of Christmas' scene in David JOnes 2006 Christmas windows taken from the left side, showing the turtle doves - the 2 is a worm in the beak of the one on the left which you can't see from this angle.

This scene for David Jones was designed and made in the home studio of StudioM under contract to a promotions and animation company which used it in the famous windows. There were six scenes StudioM designed and made at their studio - once each scene was made it was transported to the company's factory for the lighting and the overhead rotating shaft and cam system to be installed and connected to the puppets and objects that we had fixed in place below. The elfy one man band and his mice helpers on the outside of the scene were made according to our design drawing by Juanita in Clifton. See design drawing in other photo or set.

We designed this scene so that it could be divided and used as three scenes. The first choice is to be used just as it is or alternatively the hairdressing salon and the kitchen can be removed to become two seperate scenes on their own. As it is - it is a scene with a hair salon where Santa is asleep and the hairdressing elves are having a gay time cutting and dying his hair. The kitchen scene is a smaller version of one of our typical cooking scenes and blends well in an actual shop setting. If motion is required, the motors for the strings to operate the puppets can be hidden in the roof of each individual scene. Each roof just lifts off. The snowman wobbles and laughs at Santa's new look while an elf prepares snowballs and another on the bakery roof tries to fish gingerbread from below.

Designed and made by RGM StudioM at StudioM's Tinbeerwah/Cooroy workshed. Copyright held. Photo taken at our studio before its sale to an animation and puppet company. Claims by this company and others to be its creators, 'the creative force' and 'mastermind' behind it are false and an infringement of our copyright. The company and its puppeteer director had no input into the scene as you see it here, other than to provide the metal frame around which the scene is built.

Dollmaker Juanita in Clifton made puppets to StudioM drawings /specifications. StudioM specially commissioned her to make the snowman.... again to our drawings, and instructions. All original drawings, specifications, notes etc as with all of the scenes we have designed and made are retained by StudioM as does the copyright.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing - the scene StudioM designed and made at our workshop, photo taken before we had completed it for its use in the David Jones Christmas Window Display in Sydney in 2006. StudioM was contracted by a promotions company working for David Jones to design the windows, do a presentation folio for them and once the design was won, StudioM was contracted to create the scenes. So here it is in StudioM's workshed. After StudioM finished it, it was trucked to the promotion company's factory for inspection by the VM mgr for David Jones, before being trucked to Sydney for installation in the windows in Oct 2006. To see some good closeup photos visit

www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/sets/72157627374956322/

In the following year, this scene was re displayed in Smith and Caughey's window in Auckland NZ and can be seen here in other flickr sites of members - search Smith and Caughey

Visit www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/sets/72157603575240201 to see them in Auckland window or in her David Jones set.

I later made the copy of 'The Herald' newspaper that the angel sitting on the steps was reading in the windows at David JOnes. In later years, when the scene re appeared at Smith and Caugheys the Promotions company had rewritten the original newspaper to suit their own means and tell their own stories.

Juanita Wellings in Clifton made the elves to our drawings and specifications

The Workplace Elf and Safety rules are posted on the wall - such as 'No ladders to be left in stockings', 'No noisy hammering or screwing after hours', 'Beware of pointy ears and shoes'. If animation is required, these elves can be made to move by simply pulling them up and down with fishing lines attached to cams centred on a rotating shaft driven by a motor - all of this mechanism can be fitted to the top of the portable frame of the scene. It is a simple method used by many to animate such scenes. Or... leave the scene as it is in suspended motion as has been enjoyed by many seeing this and other such scenes at our studio workshed.

Scene designed and made by StudioM at our workshop in Cooroy/Tinbeerwah hinterland. Moral rights/ copyright remain with RGM StudioM. It was sold to an animation and Promotions company AFTER this photo was taken at our home studio. As this company has widely exhibited this and many of our scenes in various media and sites since, any subsequent claims by this company and its puppeteer director to being the scene's 'creator', ' mastermind' or 'creative force' behind it would be COMPLETELY FALSE, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright. They had no artistic input into this scene as shown here.

Juanita Wellings made elves and mice to our drawings/ specifications at her home in Clifton. All originals of sketches, drawings and specifications are retained by StudioM along with copyright.

Sleeping snoring Santa is getting a quick trim and set before flying high on his Big Night Out. It doesn't pay to go to sleep in the hairdresser's chair. It's a bit of a hairraising event. Just shows... you can't trust those slick, 'full of hot air' types,who are intent on their own agenda.

This scene was designed and made by RGM of Studio M at our home workshop in Tinbeerwah in the Noosa Hinterland.

AFTER this photo was taken the scene was sold to a promotions company ( without copyright transfer), which has since exhibited it widely in Santa Grottos, department store windows and shopping centres, as well as being featured on their home website without acknowledgements. Any claims by this company or its director to being 'the mastermind' and 'creative force' behind it are completely false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of copyright which is maintained by RGM StudioM 2005. The company had no influence or input to the scene as seen in these photos. The company supplied the basic, unpainted, steel frame that fitted with their standards, to which we secured the scene.

We especially commissioned Juanita Wellings, a dollmaker in Clifton, to make Santa's head and hands for the scene. She made them to our design, drawings, instructions/ specifications and did a great job.

Look at the photo called 'Santa's Dad' which shows my husband Peter with the Santa head and hands the day they arrived from Clifton.

The mice as seen in many of our scenes were made by her to our design and instructions. She also made the elves to meet our specified requirements.

The originals of all our sketches, drawings, instructions and specifications for this and all of the scenes we have made are retained by StudioM along with the copyrights.

April, 2012

Christmas Eve in the Village. Santa's elves are supposed to be helping him to deliver the presents but they are too busy playing. It's Weihnachtsmarkt for the village mice and the mouse chef is busy in the Candy Haus.

Designed and made by StudioM at our workshop. Copyright held. Scene sold as it is shown here in our workshop, to a promotions company which put in some very simple movement by inserting overhead a motorised rotating shaft and cam system. Fishing lines connected between the cams and objects below allow a very simple and slight up and down motion with each rise and fall of the cams as they rotate on the shaft. Photo taken before the company saw it and bought it. Any claims made since by the animation and promotions company to be the 'mastermind' and 'creative force' behind the scene are COMPLETELY false, misleading and an infringement of copyright.Copyright remains with StudioM.

Juanita made mice and elves to our drawings and specifications. All originals of the sketches, drawings, and specifications are retained by StudioM.

The Rudolph scene being made at StudioM's workshop. The join between the back and front sections can be seen in the snow and the middle cut runs through the door on the clubhouse and next to Santa. Some of the ply forms for the snow can be seen. Rudolph is not finished as yet but the other reindeer in the clubhouse and in the group are in position. The North Pole Weather Station is in the front with a few more little things to be added. The reindeer in the clubhouse are 2D silhouettes with washers between their arms and bodies, and between their heads and bodies, allowing movement for their arms and heads to swing up and down with a pull of a fishing line, just as we designed for them to do. The signs that the group of reindeer are holding were designed to move up and down, which they did but they were originally designed in the presentation to be synchronised with the recorded music so that a light shone on the signs and this group of reindeer at the end of the song and the signs moved up and down appropriately. Unfortunately this synchronisation could not be achieved by the animation company and therefore was not done according to the original design presentation.

StudioM was contracted to firstly design and provide a presentation for a promotions company which on winning the tender for the 2006 David Jones Christmas windows for the first time, then contracted StudioM to construct and create the six window scenes for them, which we did. Once the scenes were finished, they were then transported to the promotions company's factory for their addition of animation mechanism, lighting, inspection by DJ's and finally - installation into the windows in Sydney. This photo was taken just after a visit from Kate Westgate, who was the VM mgr in charge of the windows at the time of tendering. She was very happy with this first window scene that Peter and I had created with Juanita's elves, mice and Santa.

Juanita Wellings in Clifton made the Santa head and top half to our drawings and specifications, as well as the mice, which we designed years ago, and the elves. Original sketches, drawings etc held by StudioM.

Visit www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/sets/72157627374956322/ to see the scene in the David Jones windows with many closeup and humorous shots taken of the six windows

The first one of these scenes that StudioM designed and made at our home workshop, and which ended up being displayed in the USA. Click on photo to read titles on books on the mantle. Santa and elves are delivering presents to the household, whilst the mice that live within are overjoyed at their luck - moving into the doll's house, taking over the toy boat, enjoying Santa's snack and pestering the ever watchful, cross nut cracker. Designed and created by Studio M at our home studio in Tinbeerwah- copyright held by StudioM. Attributions are on the books on the mantle - The red book on the mantle at left, shows StudioM responsible for the Design and Creation. AFTER this photo was taken the scene was sold to an animation and Promotions company which put in some simple motion. Any claims by this company or its director to having any creative input to this stage, being 'the mastermind' or 'creative force' behind it are COMPLETELY FALSE, deliberately misleading and an infringement of StudioM's copyright. The company put in a shaft/cam system above the scene to attach fishing lines to objects below such as Santa's head, the elf in the fireplace, the mice holding the cracker etc. As the cams rotate, the lines make the objects move up and down. A simple method which is commonly used to add motion to such scenes.

StudioM specially commissioned Juanita, a dollmaker in Clifton to make Santa's FACE ONLY as a squashed out flat pie face on padding with stretch lycra over the top to allow the facial features. It was the first time she had tried this and she followed our instructions well. Once we received the squashed face, we positioned it onto a head, fixed hair and whiskers and placed it into the body we had ready in the scene. The hands were not made by the dollmaker.

All original sketches, drawings, specific instructions to the dollmaker for the making of Santa's face, the design and making of the mice and special requests for the colours/look and expressions for the elves are retained by StudioM as is copyright for this scene.

Second row of the original choir as we finished them and before their gowns. They came to us as a polystyrene ball on a stick with the mouth part cut out, a piece of ply glued to the bottom and top of mouth and then a hinge screwed in to allow the mouth to be held secure and the head raised up and down to simulate singing. We shaped and added epoxy clay to the foam to make the faces and then painted them. They were intended to be comical mockups of marionettes just as we had designed for them to be in our original design presentation drawings to David Jones and we were pleased with the result....... although the hair, some of which was given to us by the dollmaker, was not quite right on some faces. Unfortunately the company which contracted us to design and make the scenes for them, could not see their humour and hence did some whitewashing modifications to tone them down, plus add some real like doll hair, all of which made them look mediocre and ordinary. Other people with vision, including architects and designers, who saw them as they are photographed whilst visiting our studio, thought they were funny characters of gaudy marionettes, which is what we had intended and had written into our presentation notes to David Jones, rather than boring, wishy-washy puppets trying to look 'real'.

See www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/6016721497/in/set-721576...

The Paintomatic scene designed and made by StudioM at our workshop -copyright 2005.

This is one of the workshops that Santa has for his elves to make toys for Christmas. This workshop uses the patented revolutionary Paint -O-Matic machine to paint the toys they have made. Not sure it is being very effective. The mouse on the middle shelf is being rolled over and is flat out painting. I have used these flattened mice in many scenes and they work well.

Sold AFTER this photo was taken to an animations and Promotions company which installed a rotating shaft and cam system overhead to create slight up and down movements with fishing lines between the cams and objects below. Each rotation of the cam causes the fishing line to move slightly creating movement below. A simplistic method that anyone with a little mechanical knowledge could easily do. This scene has been exhibited widely along with 65 plus scenes that RGM made for StudioM in many places and various media. However claims by the Promotions company and its puppeteer director to be the creator, the creative force or the mastermind behind this scene or any of our other scenes is COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright.

Elves and mice by Juanita Wellings in Clifton to our specifications, design and drawings.

Mouse reading newspaper (credits for designer /creator clearly shown) on roof of the scene where Santa is stuck upside down in the chimney top. The elves are trying emergency procedures to clear him. Meanwhile the mice have come out to watch as spectators - one is knitting on the other side of the scene.

Designed and made by StudioM at our studio workshop. Copyright retained. This scene was sold AFTER this photo taken to an animation and Promotions company which put in some simple motion by way of inserting a motorised shaft and cam system overhead to attach fishing lines between the rotating cams and objects below. Constant claims since by this company and its director to be 'the mastermind' and 'the creative force' behind the scene are misleading. In accordance with copyright law, the credits written to the designer and creator should still be visible as seen here. This scene has been featured on TV / internet and many blogs advertising Santa's Secret Workshop, the Ginger Factory at Yandina, Enchanted Forest at Smith and Caughey's NZ.

Juanita Wellings made mice to our design/drawings and instructions. All original drawings, sketches and specifications are held by StudioM.

Original sketch design for the 'North Pole Village' scene designed by and then later created by StudioM. AFTER this scene was made it was sold to a Promotions company which has displayed the scene many times in many places - including 'Santa's Kingdom' , Cadbury's factory Dunedin. There has also been a por imitation copy of it been made and dispalyed. Any claims by this company or its director to be its 'creator', 'the mastermind' or 'creative force' behind this scene would be completely false and an infringement of copyrights. Look for the photos of the scene designed and created by StudioM 2004 at our workshop with copyright held StudioM. Original sketches and drawing are held by StudioM along with copyright.

All the ingredients for one's success including broken eggs and a glass of silky smoothness.

Scene designed and created by StudioM at our home workshop in 2005. Copyright held. Recognition to the designer and creator StudioM is written on the books on the shelf opposite side of scene, above the fireplace and should still be there.

AFTER this photo was taken, the scene was sold to an animations and Promotions company which then put in some simple up and down motion by the insertion overhead of a rotating shaft and cams system. The cams are attached to objects below with fishing line, and as the cams rotate they create some simple up and down motion below. A simple method commonly used. The large papier mache bowl is hollow with the cake mixture built onto a flat plywood board to which the wooden spoon is attached with an eye hook. I made the bowl hollow inside, so that a small motor could be established inside the bowl, to connect to the wooden spoon to offer a rotating movement - otherwise the eye hook allows for movement when the spoon is moved from above. The scene has been exhibited since by the promotions company but any subsequent claims by the company, its puppeteer director or any other to being the 'mastermind' or 'creative force' behind it would be COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright. They had nothing to do with the creation of this scene as shown here at StudioM's premises, and bought the scene once finished, without transfer of its copyright.

Juanita made elves and mice to our specifications in Clifton 2005. All original sketches, designs and specifications are retained by StudioM along with copyright.

All original drawings and specifications are held by StudioM along with copyright..

A mouse is feeling very kneaded in amongst the bakers dough at the front of the table. Another elf is about to press down on the spoon to send an egg into oblivion, whilst one weighs up the Elf Raising Flour, another plays kitchen croquette with a mouse, another rolls out a mouse in the pastry, another tickles the gingerbread mens' tummies with a pastry brush, another stirs the mix in the bowl and the main chef considers himself a bit of a tenor, complete with round tummy and Pavarotti scarf.

Designed and made by StudioM at our home workshop in Cooroy/Tinbeerwah hinterland. Moral rights/ copyright held by RGM from StudioM. This scene was sold AFTER this photo was taken in 2005, as you see it here, to a Promotions company specialising in puppets, which later put in some very simplistic up and down movements. They inserted overhead a rotating shaft with cams which have fishing lines attached to objects below. These pull up and fall down with the rotation of the cams on the shaft creating some simple motion. This is a commonly used system to animate such scenes. It has been featured in many exhibitions and some advertisements for the Santa's Secret Workshop at the Ginger Factory, Yandina. However, claims by this company, its puppeteer director or any other involved in its exhibition or display to having any involvement with its creation or design, to being 'the mastermind' and 'creative force' behind this scene, are false, misleading and an infringement of StudioM's copyright.

Juanita Wellings made elves and mice to our specifications and drawings in Clifton. All original sketches, designs and instructions to the doll maker are retained by StudioM.

Part of the North pole Village scene - I put the track on the roof so that the toboggan could be pulled up and then drop down again with its own weight.

Designed and created by Studio M 2004 at our workshop. The scene was sold AFTER this photo was taken, without transfer of copyright, to a Promotions company, which added some motion by inserting a simple overhead mechanism consisting of a rotating shaft with irregular shaped cams. These cams are connected by fishing line to objects below, allowing simplistic up and down motions as the shaft and cams rotate. This is a commonly used method. Exhibited many times over the years by the company, which bought it from StudioM in 2004. However, claims by this company and its director, which had nothing to do with the design or content of this scene, to be the 'mastermind' and 'creative force' behind it are COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright. Copyright held StudioM. Moral rights held StudioM. There are some small notices on the wall of the bakery which give credit to StudioM as the true designer and creator of this scene and can be seen in the next photo. These should still be there and visible by copyright law. View them on original size to read.

Juanita a dollmaker from Clifton made elves and mice to StudioM specifications and drawings. All original drawings, sketches and specifications for this scene and all the others that we designed and made are retained by StudioM along with copyright.

Window Display design and instalation by Stephen for Mointain Equipment Co-op, Thanks to Marie, Taylor, Olga, Sarah, Jen, And Brent for all there help on these windows.

scottystevy@yahoo.com

Email me if you have any comments or need a display designed.

The Christmas Shoppe in the Christmas Eve Village scene with the internal light on. It doesn't show here but in reality you are able to see the toys and decorations displayed inside. This part of the scene was designed so that the front of the shop could be easily removed to access a mouse puppet and lights inside the shop. The candy shop on the right is also designed for easy access to manouevre the mouse chef inside this shop. Scene designed and created by RGM from StudioM at its Cooroy/Tinbeerwah home studio - copyright held. Photo taken at our studio BEFORE being sold, without copyright transfer, to a Promotions company which LATER put some simplistic motion into the scene by inserting an overhead rotating shaft and cam system to which fishing lines were connected to different objects below enabling them to move slightly. This is a simple system that is commonly used to add some animation to such scenes. Claims by parties other than StudioM to be the 'creative force' and 'mastermind' behind its creation are completely false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright. Since its departure from StudioM. it has been publicly exhibited many times along with over 60 of our scenes. All original sketches, designs and instuctions to doll maker held by StudioM with copyright.

Elves and mice made by Juanita Wellings in Clifton to our drawings and specifications.

Elfy cooking in the small kitchen scene inside the larger scene - 3 scenes in one large one, or seperate this scene and the small hairdressers scene also in the large scene to use as two seperate scenes. The rolling pin is pulled by a string to roll upwards along the table slightly and then drop down with its own weight. As the table is on a slope it works easily. The slope also gives the scene perspective.The mouse is attached to the rolling pin and moves up with it. An easy action and very effective - I have done this in many of the kitchen scenes I have designed and made at the StudioM home workshop in Tinbeerwah/ Cooroy hinterland, QLD. Copyright held StudioM. Sold to an animation and Promotions company AFTER this photo was taken and has been exhibited since. Any claims by this company or its director to having any input into the scene as shown here or to be the 'mastermind' and creative force behind it are COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright.

Juanita Wellings made elves and mouse in her home in Clifton to our drawings and specifications. All of these drawings and specifications are retained by StudioM.

The Egg Rapper scene - the last scene in the group of three showing how easter eggs are made at the chocolate factory - taken at StudioM workshop at Tinbeerwah where it was designed and made - not quite finished and puppets not strung in or positioned in place. Designed and made by StudioM at our tinshed workshop. The names of the designer and creators of these three scenes are shown on a sign underneath the glass door of the Egg Rapper machine and by copyright laws should still be there untouched and clearly visible to the public. Photo taken before it was sold, without transfer of copyright, to an animation and Promotions company which put in simple motions by inserting overhead a rotating shaft and cam system with fishing lines connecting to objects below. The company used it in a display for Cadbury NZ in the Cadbury factory at Dunedin. The 3 scenes were designed by StudioM to go together as a series - this is the last scene of the trio set. RGM's sketch drawings can be viewed in another set. Copyright for design and creation Robyn Morrison StudioM 2006. Any claims since by others to be the 'creators', 'the creative force' or the 'mastermind' behind would be completely false and an infringement of our copyright. All original concept story/ designs/drawings/ specifications to puppetmaker etc are held by StudioM

Juanita Wellings made the little puppet people to look like those on the Cadbury Dunedin website at her home in Clifton, QLD. The mice were made to our original drawings/ instructions and specifications, all of which are held by StudioM with copyright.

To see this scene and the other two at Cadbury's factory please visit www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot and view NZ set.

An elf and a bucket of goodies to Santa's rescue. As happens... Santa is stuck in a chimney. Some soap... oil, ...honey ....or what about some gelignite. That might do the trick. The guy in the middle jumps up and down on Santa's legs trying to push him down the chimney whilst another elf tries to lasso him out. The cock on the weather vane looks surprised at all the unusual activity on his roof..

Designed and made by StudioM at our studio in 2004. Copyright held. AFTER this photo was taken the scene was sold to a promotions company. It has been exhibited widely and used in media but any claims by this company or its director to being 'the mastermind' and the 'creative force' behind the scene are an infringement of StudioM's copyright.

Juanita in Clifton made elves and mice to our drawings and instructions. All original drawings, sketches, specifications, emails are retained by StudioM along with copyright.

The "Jingle Bells" window in David Jones Market Street window in 2006 that StudioM designed and then created the scene. One of six windows we were contracted to do for a promotions company employed by David Jones. After we finished making the scene, which seperates into 4 sections, it was shipped to the local promotions company where the company inserted the lighting and animation, as well as adding some external robotic pieces such as the puppeteer above and the front puppets. The singing children in the hot air ballon basket had disappeared from the front of the scene when this photo was taken. The singing children in each window had also been a prerequisite in the design brief from David Jones. The window looks better without these children.

See the 'DJ's in construction' set to see PRM's scenic backdrop in the making as well as other elements being made at StudioM's small home workshop. It shows how anyone with the desire and creativity can make these scenes..it is not necessary to be a big company to do so....although there is some big money in producing them.

This photo highlights the poor lighting with the glare spot from above.

Photo courtesy of Silverspot who took it in Sydney Dec 2006

For more photos go to www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/sets/72157627374956322/

It's Christmas Eve in this village scene and Santa is trying to deliver the presents but his elfy helpers are too busy mucking around to help. Meanwhile some mice are carolling, another is cooking inside the candy shop and others are having a stall at the midnight Christmas market.

Designed and made by StudioM copyright.Photo taken at StudioM workshop BEFORE the scene was sold to an animation and Promotions company which then put in motion via an overhead rotating shaft and cam mechanism to create some simple up and down movement by way of attached strings to puppets and objects below. It has been widely exhibited since. Any claims since by others to be 'the creative force' and 'mastermind' behind it are completely false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright. The promotions company had no artistic input into the scene to this stage as pictured. All original sketches, working drawings and instructions to puppetmaker are held by StudioM along with copyright.

Mice and elves made by Juanita Wellings in Clifton to StudioM's drawings and specifications.

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The Rudolph sceneas we finished it after it left our studio and after transport to the premises of the animation and Promotions company which contracted StudioM to design and make it to the stage that you see here without the lighting, the strings attached and the mechanism above inserted. You can see the divisions between the scene's four sections which are bolted together. They are between Santa and Rudolph from front to back and the line in the snow running from the left side to right side halfway through the scene, behind Santa and in front of the North Pole Deer Clubhouse. The mouse on the sliding 'Sardine Tin' toboggan next to snowman can be seen in other photos in its construction stage. The mechanism for this to slide up and down was built elsewhere to our instructions.

The scene was designed by and made at StudioM workshop April-May 2006, and then, as with all of the six scenes in the 2006 windows, transported to the promotions company's premises for animation and lighting to be installed and then inspected by the VM manager before its installation in the David Jones Christmas windows 2006.

Visit www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/sets/72157627374956322/ to see many humorous and closeup shots of the six windows.

The outside of the "Jingle Bells" window scene in David Jones Christmas windows in Sydney. See the David Jones in construction set to see these being made at StudioM's studio in Tinbeerwah (under contract to design and create the scenes) for a Promotions company employed by David Jones for the first time to install the windows in 2006.Visit www.flickr.com/photos/rgmstudiom/sets/72157594460492921/

To see many closeup photos of elements in this scene visit

Photo courtesy of Silverspot who took it in Dec 2006

The right side of the Toymaker scene showing the toes of the Toymaker and the unhelpful elves. The elf on the bed has a feather to go in its hand and is meant to be tickling the toes of the toymaker which we weighted and allowed for wiggling movements when pulled from above, as well as allowing for the toymaker's chest to rise and fall as he breathes. Very effective if a soft snoring sound effect is added. The mouse asleep in the toymaker's slipper was the very first mouse that I designed and had Juanita make. I requested the elves be made in this coloured material to enhance the midnight effect. Look at the set named 'The Toymaker' in sets at top of page to appreciate scene in its entirety. This scene is an original design and creation of StudioM made at our Tinbeerwah/Cooroy studio in 2003. Copyright held. It was sold to an animation and promotions company which added some simple up and down motion to the scene by inserting overhead a rotating shaft and cam system. Fishing lines attached to the cams and objects below allow an up and down motion as the cams rotate.

Elves and mouse made by Juanita in Clifton to our design and specifications. It was the first mouse that we asked her to make to our drawings and instruction. All original sketches and specifications to the doll maker are retained by StudioM.

Santa is getting ready for his annual Big Gig and has just ducked into the North Pole Hairdressers for a quick trim. Unfortunately he has fallen asleep and the 'Style' elves are having fun giving him a new look hairdo and a colourful manicure. Now you know why he always wears a hat and gloves and why you cannot always trust some pretentious arty folk.

This scene is an original design, designed and made by StudioM at our workshop. Copyright is still held. It was sold to an animation and Promotions company after this photo was taken. Claims since by this company or any other involved in its display and promotion, to being the creator, the 'mastermind' or 'creative force behind it' are false and an infringement of our copyright. The promotions company that bought it saw it for the first time when we delivered it to their premises. Since this photo was taken in StudioM's tinshed studio late at night, it has been exhibited many times, including being featured on the company's home website page.

My son's restoration project of a black Escort Mk2 is in the background. RGM of StudioM designed the scene and sent drawings of Santa's head and his hands, complete with design specifications to Juanita Wellings in Clifton, who we commissioned to make the Santa's head and hands from polymer clay. She did an excellent job. The mice were our original design from many previous scenes when I did drawings and design specifications for Juanita as to how they were to be made as well as the 'look' and colours for the elves. All original artwork, sketches and design specifications and communications are held by StudioM along with copyright.

The scene has been displayed widely including at Smith and Caughey's dept store in Auckland and was captured there by another flickr person... visit her pages on the scene and others www.flickr.com/photos/silverspot/2145991918/in/set-721576...

Some late midnight shopping for mice. One of Santa's elves is looking in the window at all the goodies while a chef mouse is inside cooking and displaying the candy. The mice outside are at a midnight market - one vendor and one buyer.

Designed and created by StudioM at our workshop 2005 Copyright held

Sold, AFTER this photo was taken, to an animation and Promotions company, which put in motions of simple up and down slight movements by an overhead rotating shaft and cam system . Claims by this company and its director to be the 'creative force' and 'mastermind' of the scene are COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright. As with all of our scenes we have designed and made, all original designs and sketches have been held by StudioM. The first time they saw it was after this photo taken and just before they bought it.

Dollmaker Juanita from Clifton made puppets to our specifications and drawings. All original sketches, design drawings and instructions are retained by StudioM as the copyright holders.

An elfy day at the North Pole in Santa's toyshop where the toys are made. Plenty of movement possible from the toys on the shelves above as well as the puppets. If a simple rotating shaft with cams attached is placed across the top of the scene, fishing lines attached to the puppet/toys/mice/ seesaw/ hinged box and then connected back to the cams will produce some effective movement without much engineering. Use a small motor to rotate the shaft and you have an animated scene. Simple and easy .

Scene designed and made by Studio M at our home workshop in Tinbeerwah 2005.

Photo was taken at StudioM premises before the scene's sale to a promotions company which put in mechanism as described above to create some very simple up and down motion.

Juanita Wellings in Clifton QLD made elves and mice to our specifications and drawings, which are held by StudioM along with copyright.

The Elfy School scene where Santa's elves learn how to be good little Christmas helpers. After this photo was taken, I added a bucket of sudsy water to the hands of the elf above the doorway. Designed and made by StudioM at our workshop in Cooroy/Tinbeerwah in the Noosa hinterland. Moral rights/ copyright held RGM StudioM. Sold to an animation and Promotions company without copyright transfer. The company inserted an overhead rotating shaft with cams to collect the fishing lines and create some simple motion down below with the objects. This is a simple mechanism which is used widely by puppet animators, and for which the scene has been designed to accomodate. All original drawings, sketches and specifications of StudioM's scenes are retained by StudioM as the copyright holders. Since its sale, it has been exhibited widely in many shop fronts, santa displays, tv advertisements and various media. Any subsequent claims by parties other than StudioM to be the creator, 'the mastermind' or 'creative force' behind this scene are COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright.

Juanita Wellings, a dollmaker in Clifton, made elves and mice to our drawings and instruction. StudioM commissioned the making of the professor to our drawings and exact specifications. All originals of sketches, design drawings and specifications, including communications, are retained by StudioM.

A tad more carb soda needed!

Scene designed and made by StudioM at our workshop. Copyright held 2004. The green upside down book on shelf gives the true credits to designer and creators - view on larger size to read. Sold in 2004 as you see it here to a Promotions company which put in very simplistic up and down motion by means of an overhead rotating shaft and cam system with fishing lines connected to objects below to make an up and down movement with each rise and fall of the cams. Claims since by others to having any involvement with the scene's creation or design, to being 'the mastermind' and 'creative force' behind it, are COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of copyright. The green upside down book on shelf gives the true credit to the designer and creator, StudioM, with a copyright symbol. It should still be there and be able to be seen by copyright laws.

Juanita Wellings in Clifton made puppets to our drawings and specifications. All original sketches and specifications are retained by StudioM.

One of many kitchen scenes Studio M designed and made from 2001 to 2006 in our home workshop in Tinbeerwah near Tewantin. Moral rights/ copyright held RGM StudioM. Click on photo to look at note stating the creators and designers as STUDIOM, written on the brown book lying down on the mantlepiece. This scene was sold to an animation and Promotions company AFTER this photo was taken and has been widely displayed and exhibited since. After its sale, the promotions company added an overhead rotating shaft and cam system to put in motion - simple up and down movements created by connecting fishing lines between objects below and the rotating cams - a commonly used method to provide motion to such scenes. Any subsequent claims by this company or its director to being the scene's creator, 'the mastermind' or the 'creative force' behind the scene would be COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of our copyright. The company had no creative input or direction into it as it is seen here.

Juanita Wellings, a private contractor, made elves and mice to our drawings and specifications in Clifton in 2005. All original work, sketches, drawings and specification instructions for scene are held by StudioM together with copyright.

'Hark the Herald Angels Sing' scene from David Jones 2006 Christmas windows designed and made by StudioM 2006 - in progress of manufacture at StudioM's workshed before being taken away to be used by a promotions company in the Christmas windows of David Jones Sydney 2006 and recycled for use in Smith and Caugheys Auckland 2007. We designed the six scenes under contract and then made them under contract at our studio/workshop for a Promotions company which was employed by David Jones. As each scene was finished at our workshop/studio in the Noosa Hinterland, the Promotions company collected and took them to their premises to insert the animation mechanism above the scene, and add lighting for DJ's VM manager from Sydney to inspect.

Juanita made elves at her home in Clifton to our drawings and specifications. All original sketches, designs, working drawings and presentation designs remain with StudioM.

From StudioM's modest tinshed workshop in the Noosa hinterland to the bright lights of Sydney - The 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing' scene in the David JOnes Christmas display in 2006 -midnight on the first day. Scene designed and created by StudioM. StudioM had sold many such scenes to a promotions and animation company over the years and subsequently they have displayed them widely on their web site and in Christmas displays. StudioM was contracted by this company to design and provide presentation drawings for them and once the tender was won was contracted to build and create the scenes as well as provide working drawings and etc for all components of these scenes. It was done at StudioM's workshop under contract by the Promotions company hired by David Jones to produce the windows. As StudioM completed each scene it was trucked to the company's premises for lighting and the animation mechanism to be placed into them, and for DJ's visual merchandising manager to inspect them. Elves made by Juanita Wellings to our drawings and specifications at her home in Clifton. Look at pages 4,5,8 or my set marked DJ's windows under construction to see being made at StudioM workshop.

Elfy activity in the workshop making toy planes for Santa. Workplace Elf and Safety is taken seriously as can be seen by the inventive jacking systems to hold up the plane.

Designed and made by StudioM at our workshop in Cooroy/Tinbeerwah hinterland. Moral rights/ copyright held RGM StudioM. . AFTER this photo was taken, the scene was sold to an animation and Promotions company which has exhibited it many times since in through various media. However any claims by this company and its puppeteer director to being the creator of the scene, 'the mastermind' and 'creative force' behind it are COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and against copyright law. The scene was sold without transfer of copyright or moral rights which remains with StudioM as the designers and creators.

Juanita, from Clifton,QLD, made the elves and mice to our instructions. When they arrived in the post, as with all scenes, I placed extra characterisation on those where needed. All original drawings, sketches, specifications, written instructions, emails to doll maker are held by StudioM.

Making cars at North Pole.Scene designed and made by StudioM at our workshop - Copyright and attributions on books under the elf who is pumping the battery. By copyright laws these attributions should still be there, unchanged and visible. The scene was later sold to an animations and Promotions company which put in an overhead mechanism to enable some simple motion - slight up and down movments by attaching fishing line to puppets and objects below and connecting to cams rotating on a motorised shaft. This is a commonly used system to provide gentle and simplistic motion to such scenes. It has been exhibited in many places such as shopping centres, Santa's Grottos and Workshops. Subsequent claims by parties other than StudioM to being its designer or creator, 'the mastermind' and/or the 'creative force' behind it are COMPLETELY false, deliberately misleading and an infringement of StudioM's copyright. Designed and made by StudioM. The scene has recently been displayed in the window of Kircaldie and Stains in Wellington at Christmas time 2011. The elves had been removed and replaced with big white commercial teddy bears with santa hats. Very original.

Puppets by Juanita. All originals of drawings, sketches and specification notes remain with StudioM as does the copyright.