The mimsy borogoves (in the poem ”Jabberwocky”) are later in the book ”Through the Looking Glass” describes as a mix of bird and cleaning mop. They appear to be mostly depressed and quite immobile, so the puppet (one was built, but several a featured in the film) is a fairly simple one and not very...
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The main baddie of ”Jabberwocky”. This puppet is easily one of the biggest I´ve ever built. It’s about 27 inches from tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. I needed that size in order to get a lot of detail onto the...
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Here´s some puppets that were background critters in the tulgey wood. They were all simply and quickly made (about a couple of days each). All are jointed with aluminum...
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The rath, like the borogove, was a puppet not required to do much, just stand about looking bewildered. So the body was sculpted and cast as a large piece of latex skin filled with soft cold foam. A four-part mold was made from the sculpture. It´s late in the day when I´m writing this and I don´t have the stamina to explain in detail how it was done. Look at the...
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The slithy toves (in the poem ”Jabberwocky”) are later in the book ”Through the Looking Glass” explained to be a mix of lizard, badger and cork screw. What wonderful beasts to build and...
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The kappa puppet was built and animated for my friend Daniel Lenners non-epic ”One Man Army -Legends”. The kappa fights a post-apocalyptic ninja and gets his behind whopped. This meant I had to match the movements of the kappa to the shadow boxing of the ninja actor. It turned out OK, but just OK. For those of you who go: ”So, what the hell is a kappa??” The kappa is a ”yokai” a small monster from Japanese folklore, and looks like a cross...
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