Cat is a puppeteer, theatre maker and artist based in Bristol who works with the awesome House of Funny Noises and is a resident of Puppet Place . She began working with The Paper Cinema on our Macbeth production in 2019, her role was at a newly created second visuals station where she mostly provided backgrounds for rear projection and analogue special effects - including things like smoke and lots of blood!
Initially Cat continued along that trajectory during our lockdown R&D, creating 3d models of our locations and expoloring the posibilities of using a point of view perspective and even creating special effects like rain on a window.
We took Cat’s footage and used it in conjuction with other company members outcomes to produce videos to give us a sense of what these elements might look like together.
Cat’s next challenge was to produce a 3d puppet of Nic’s character “Mothman” from the character design below.
We had been playing around with the idea of incorpoating more 3d in order to exploit the incredible puppetry skills of the performers we work with.
Here are some pictures of Cat’s process.
Cat then sent the puppet to the brilliant Teelé Uustani while she was self-isolating back in Estonia, for a while there we got worried he was lost in the post but eventually he arrived and Teelé made some great little films with him.
Check out more of Cat’s work at the House of Funny Noises and don’t forget to seek out their excellent 48 Hour Puppet Film Challenge
Cat also makes beautiful artworks as Kappa V Kappa as is well worth a follow on her Instagram
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