Caught Dead Puppets

These stop motion puppets were created for Caught Dead, my short film about a young girl getting revenge on a group of bullies with the help of a friendly ghost. There were five puppets featured in the film included Mel, the main character, Candy, the ghost, and the three bullies. They are made with an aluminum wire armature, foam, polymer clay and fabric with handmade costumes.

Mel is the main character of Caught Dead. She is dressed in a sheet ghost costume that is fully poseable made with black wrap.

Candy is the ghost that Mel meets in the cemetery. Her hair and clothes are fully poseable and her head has three replacement heads for her various scaring needs. One includes poseable popped-out eyes and the other has a hole so that she can pull her guts out of her mouth.

There are three bullies that all torment Mel. They are foam and fabric puppets and heads made with polymer clay with fabric stretched over it. They all are underdressed for Halloween.

Fabric Work

A collection of originally designed, handmade fabric dolls and plushies.

"Patch the Pumpkin" is a ceramic doll with a plush body. Her head, hands and feet are sculpted and fired ceramic and her body and limbs are fabric. She sports some autumnal overalls and a spooky glow in the dark ghost turtleneck underneath!

Poppy is a fabric stuffed animal I made as a visual reference for 2D animations of the same character. She has moveable arms and legs with button joints at the shoulders and hips as well as a mischievous expression embroidered onto her pink plush face.

Skelly Kelly is a plush doll with moveable joints. She has eight points of articulation at her arms, elbows, hips and knees made with button joints as well as posable fingers. She wears a pinafore and a big floppy hat, perfect for going flower picking in the cemetery!