Character Round-up

Talented animator, Gustavo Arteaga was kind enough to ask whether I made my own characters for my projects. I said yes and collected a few sketches to give him the idea. I added a few more and put them here, in case anyone else might want to see the gang all together, and often in the all-together!

Yanu the Moth man sketch made from photo of his sculpt.

Bosq the sleeping cat puppet on the set

Rana, the Goat Woman (and main character) stand in puppet on set.

Pink Snail, with cozy home on his back, portrait of the large puppet.

Tarn the Crow Woman sketch

the Time Frog sketch with the Time Flies (Musca Tempora)

The Koi of Enlightenment puppet seen in the pond. He rises up from the depths only for a moment.

Kyra, the black Mermaid sketch from photo of her large sculpt. Undersea she turns blue and the shells woven into her hair turn to pure gold.

Rana sketch, showing how she'll carry the small chocolate-skinned Kyra mermaid puppet while on their journey....

The Birds in Hats sketch, among their hat box nest and habadashery fighting to see themselves in the mirror.

 The Writing Mouse small puppet and his tiny lens glasses.

The Hermit Crab sketch, eating his lemon crab cake, for the undersea scene

Monty's sketch, the little pink balloon blowfish who has no friends, for the undersea scene.

The Chicken Painter sketch, painting a landscape en plein air in the meadow yard. In a fowl mood today.

The Tailor Spider puppet, who lives in Rana's attic making cobwebs for her to wear on her clothes.

There are also marching ants and bugs dressed for a party, caterpillars, worms, a lizard (by Cirelle) and pretty butterflies (by Constance) as well...

To be continued...

Halfland Build Lists: specific items that need doing

Interior/Exterior Cottage Building: rain gutter with bucket pulleys

Set Landscape Building: plant landscape; silk waters; distant hills; set foreground branch near camera on wide shots, Flowering Thoughts

Puppet Making: armatures; casting; hair; costuming; and finishing for; Tarn (38% done); Kyra large and small (50%); Yanu (50% done); Torhar; Urhu; Bird's in Hats (80% done)

[Table updated: April 2015]

Completed Set/Prop/Puppet Elements--DONE!-- kitchen curtains & rods/brackets; Entry window curtains, shade rods and brackets, desert palm tree; Moon Lantern, Bamboo Grove, Tea Cup Roses, glass Tudor windows, rose wallpapering; plant pond foliage; portion of fencing in foreground, gate in fence;  Mouse House Exterior, weathervane, tree lanterns; coppola; shutters; porch; Urhu's desert tent; Mouse house interior; Writing Mouse's ink bottles, quills, scrolls;  Urhu's snake-skinned musical instruments; roof joists; roof and shingles; Cabbage moth halo/crown; Butterfly wing tapestry loom, Chicken Painter's easel, brushes, and canvases,  Four seasons of birch forest, lace spider webs

Finished Puppets--DONE!--RANA!! Writing Mouse; Bosq the snoring cat; small Pink Snail; Knitting Beetles, Herman! the Caterpillar, Catalina the Inchworm, Dust Bunnies, The Tailor Spider, Birds in Hats (so nearly), Pink Snail, Handicapped Butterflies, Time Flies; devil moth; Time Frog ; Caterpillow,  Chicken Painter (by Deborah George); Mr. and Mrs. Smook OYsters, blue dragonfly, twigman, twig figures, Hermit Crab

Backdrop Sky Building--Again--Day and Night DONE!

Finished props--DONE!-- iron tea kettle, Bird's hats, door keys, floral arrangement, window boxes, strawberries,  Fireside hearth andirons and kettle crane, Queen Bee paper hive, Queen bee's crown; Time Frog's lotus and lily pads, Chandelier AGAIN!; All Food Props

For possible future Halfland episodes:

Add'l Props: Torhar's saddle; Tarn's sled

Add'l Puppets: Butterflies that tango, and look like flowers, and are handicapped.

Add'l Minor Sets: underseascape (made from puppet packaging from all over earth from Notes readers)