film jobs

First Lady of Knitting

March 19, 2010

what a great title to hold! I was on the Historic Fibers blog and checking out the links on the right nav bar. There is a big pile of awesome knitting history links and I thought I would share them with you all. Firstly is The Hook and The Book virtual exhibition. An awesome and [...]

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Here, here are the Wild Things

December 3, 2009

I found this down an alley the other day, how could I go past it without photographing it?. I’m so excited to get the book! I’ve ordered it tonight. The experience of helping make this film, of being on set and being behind the scenes, was truly one of the highlights of my career and [...]

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Other People’s Shoes

June 16, 2009

It’s funny. Although I love working on films for the magic of it (see this post for a little more about that) it’s a job and I’m sort of used to it. You turn up to a location, move all the original furniture and decorations out or around, move in the movie bits and decorations [...]

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Updated photo

June 15, 2009

It’s not finished, so that’s why there’s a couple of ends hanging off it still, but I’m impressed on how big it’s getting, so I figured I’d share it with you. I’ve run out of wool (again) so I’m waiting until I can get back to the store. I’ve lost count how many balls are [...]

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craft quicky pics

June 10, 2009

I found my camera cord again, I swear, I’m gunna superglue it to my computer or something. So here’s some things I’ve finished since I last saw it. To the right is a pink and white crocheted dolls blanket I made for my niece’s birthday. I was really happy with it, only took me a [...]

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Much goodness!

April 27, 2009

I realised that I didn’t share with you the finished pictures of the Dragon Family! So here they are in my studio before delivery Of course, there was a dragon costume for the biggest one, but since it wasn’t my work I figured I wouldn’t photograph it for posterity. Here is the Mid Dragon on [...]

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Tutorial – Real Hands for puppets and puppet suits

April 7, 2009

This is a really simple tute, which as you know, is always my favourite kind. When you’re building a puppet and you need it to be able to actually use it’s hands, then one way to do it is to create what is referred to as “real hands”, which is basically a big glove attached [...]

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Phew! What a lot of things to cram into such a short time

April 7, 2009

Oh, there has been much art, much business and a internet connection MIA. Damn technology! On the weekend, I worked on a short shoot of a showreel of a film written by local guys. Well, Jude and a friend of his. It was great to work on a professional shoot but stacked full of mates. [...]

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electrical faults aside, we got a family going on!

April 2, 2009

Yesterday I spent in the studio still working on the dragons. I bought a glue gun a week ago from a high end craft store that shall remain nameless as my previous glue gun, bought sensibly from a hardware store, had been suddenly called to Majorca to attend a family situation. Or at least, that’s [...]

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Good things come in threes

March 31, 2009

So I’ve been commissioned to design and make a dragon puppet in three sizes – bigger than a teenager, 60cms and small stuffed toy. After much discussion we decided that we’d go with a costume for the big dragon, a muppet-like puppet for the mid dragon and about 30cms for the stuffed toy. There’s a [...]

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