I dressed a corner in our premises as the show’s central control room. This is from where line-producer Ludwig Wolpertinger (puppet builder: Robert Rebele) desperately tries to manage the on-stage mayhem.
Just moments before shooting. Behind the camera: director David Gromer and DOP Stefan Spoo.
Under the table, quite uncomfy: Norman Cöster (head and voice) and me (both hands) working Ludwig.
Sauhund, a puppet show. My DingStars will also appear in this show. A new regular feature will be the Socken-Fans, characters clearly to identify as sock puppets . A bunch of fans waylaying the guest star at the back door of the sound stage. I’m doing my best to make the most of those normally rather primitive sock puppets and make them fully-fledged characters.
An example from sketch to final puppet:
Rudi, a Bavarian Prototype.
And here the whole cast so far.
This little tuna can was quite stubborn during shooting. The hinge between lid and can didn’t want the way I wanted it to work…
One of my DingStar-puppets. This one is exceptionally not manipulated from below but from above. (That’s why the upper rim of the lampshade will never be seen on screen.) A rod, fixed to an elastic is used to push down the lower lip of the puppet. Reducing the pressure on the rod and with that on the elastic will cause the mouth to close in a quite natural way.
Preparation for a new show on BR – Bayerischer Rundfunk. I’m going to produce clips that will be used to introduce the show’s guests.
The audio level is going to be a real audio survey about the prevailing guest. Later on, I will build puppets from every-day items and animate their mouthes to the voices of the prerecorded survey.
That’s going to be big fun.
Nice Job. A historical fairy tale book needed a little pimping. Besides that, the script requires a new page including an engraving made after a still from an allready shot scene. Later, my engraving will be seemlessly blended into the scene’s footage.
The riddle is camouflaged as a metal memorial plate. I’m fastening my dummy to the front side of the original one so that no one notices anything at a first glance.
By the way, great shooting! A real outdoor experience in the Bavarian Alps. No art-department trucks, no cars. Only packing cases and brim-full back packs, that need to be dragged through the woods and up the mountains. Tough, but big fun.
Hundrets of bright coloured balls need to be flushed down the waterfall. So somebody has to be upstream to throw them in…
New project. It’s about geo caching. Three kids and a celebrity need to find hidden tasks and solve riddles and puzzles in the woods. Sounds like big fun and loads of props to build.
And now for the complete opposide. After the shitty stuff now the shiny one. The pirates’ treasure vault. Thousands of fake coins, a mass of hot glue and dozens of spray paint cans. The result: fantastically absurd piles of coins.
