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These light up Shadow Box Puppets will be used interchangeably as Toy Theatre and Shadow Puppets in Nothing Really Matters. They are each double sided, laser cut, mat board with an inlay of opaque nylon material and outlined with black fleece. Each puppet box has led lights inside which are remote controlled.
The puppets can be manipulated as shadow puppets from behind a screen while an animation is simultaneously front projected on the screen. They are also beautiful up close and come out from behind the screen to be used in conjunction with front projected animation and as toy theater puppets. They were originally drawn between 2008 and 2018 by a team of animators for Aerial Animation and I have been adjusting the PSD photoshop images to transform the images into sturdy puppets.
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 Recreating the cloud from the 2023 project, "Nimbus" to use as a dimensional mapped surface for the “Work World” in Nothing Really Matters. The face projected on the cloud will express different emotions through the story to show varying levels of satisfaction with my productivity. The original cloud was created by Mathew Melis in 2008 and I am working with Eun Sok Hong, a senior in the Digital Media and Design Program at UConn to create the new facial expressions.
Over the summer and fall semesters at UConn I have been developing a series of animated forest scenes for Nothing Really Matters. These scenes are tiny in their original form but they will be projected in giant scale so that I can go behind the screen and appear in silhouette walking through the animated forest.
Each scene is about a minute long and contains a forest of hand cut paper trees. The leaves are laser cut duplicates in varying colors to produce replacement animations which progress from summer, through fall and winter into spring. I designed each tree and leaf shape as well as the three tier cranky system which allows the trees to travel across the camera at varying paces to produce a parallax effect. Kayo Tokuue, a third year MFA light design student at UConn has been assisting me in creating the footage and I am extremely grateful for her patience, attention to detail and awareness of how light affects the camera! |
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