Category: Career builds
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Puppet Project: Termagant
Some of the best foam carving I’ve ever done, a less than stellar puppet. The second-year puppet project is a cornerstone of Sheridan’s props curriculum and my year was the first with a new version of it. Traditionally, we were just carving foam puppet heads onto premade mechanisms. Now, we make the whole puppet and…
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2D project: JPL Journal
Another one of my projects from Sheridan. The objective: a 2D paper prop that tells a story of some kind. Now, what is a 2D prop? Coming up with a specific definition of 2D props is like coming up with a specific definition of ‘furniture’. It’s… anything flat, usually made of paper. Documents, books, folders,…
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The Chicken Cannon
Quite possibly the single greatest thing I have ever had the privilege of calling a school project: the spring-loaded rubber chicken mortar from Sheridan’s production of Something Rotten! November 2024: Herbie Barnes, our director, relays to props that he wants a “Giant golden egg that shoots out rubber chickens” for Something Rotten. I pounced on…