Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2007 • Puppet Design/Fabrication
2007 • Puppet Design/Fabrication
Film and television is so compartmentalized, sometimes it's hard to visualize just what kind of contribution ten lady vampiress puppets, a bunch of ancient wizards and a bunch of angry townspeople is going to have on a romantic comedy.
While painting and aging plaster, drawing angry expressions, pitchforks and torches and gluing things together, there's rarely time to contemplate "What does it all mean?"
Thankfully, it all comes together quite nicely, and I'm glad I got to be a part of it.
If you haven't seen "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" then this is a real spoiler, therefore, I've submitted this sequence without sound, and only just a snippet. I made the "back-up singer vampiresses", the wizards, and the angry townspeople.
I really enjoyed making the pupils and eyebrows on these vampiresses.
All of the vampiresses were given a pallid moonlight-tinted glow to make them even more undead than they already were...
Here you can see the vampiresses in the light, I gave all of them different colored irises, and some of them have darker "lipstick" than others.
Here I am testing out the vampiresses for comfort and usability. It's important for a puppet to be a good fit, puppeteering is quite a workout, the puppet's got to look good, but also be highly functional.
The wizards on the left are REALLY HEAVY, their heads are pure plaster. I don't know how that person his holding four up at a time.
For days, everything I owned and everything I touched was covered in "wizard hair."
I illustrated all the townspeople, and they were made into cut-outs and rigged to pop up with the fantastic fabric flames you see here.
