Tiamat

For She Kills Monsters 2017

These five large dragon head puppets were comissioned by Hood River High School's theater department for Jared Booth to make. Since I had worked with him and his group on previous projects (Guardians of the Gorge) and of course, this was my high school, I assited in their construction.

I've saved all the photos here for my archives, but the main steps that I was part of was adding the skin on top of the foam frame, and the paint jobs.

Gallery

Footage from Duncan Krummel

Rehearsals in work lighting

Red

White

Green

Black

Blue

Red with eyes on

Blue

Red

Process

Jared started off with sketches, and then build the frame of each head out of EVA foam strips.

Red and White as frames

An early sketch

Red as a frame

White as a frame

The heads were then given to me, and I covered each of them with sheets of thinner EVA foam.

Red and Blue

Blue

I returned them to Jared, and he patterned large scale pieces out of craft paper. These are cut out of thick EVA foam mats and shaped with a dremel into sharp angles and points.