For the completion of my Bachelor of Fine Arts, my Capstone project was the research, design and build of a full-scale Audrey II puppet from "Little Shop of Horrors". This puppet stands at roughly 5'-6' and can be manually articulated by a sole puppeteer. The project consisted of three sections: The Head, the Neck and the Garden Pot. The head consists of a PVC pipe frame, a fabric mouth lining (with a tongue that can be puppeted), a layer of foam and a layer of fabric. The neck is a large tube of denim fabric with hoola hoops sewn in to provide structure. The Garden Pot is constructed from intricately angled wood panels and a stool mounted to the base on a platform.

This project was the largest individual build I have done to date and was a self-guided project. I got experience with sourcing materials like plywood, pvc and landau foam. I got a lot of experience with problem-solving, the room for compound error on a project with big, but I was able to figure out a solution when something didn't go as expected. I also managed to complete this project while balancing a full-course load and working the build and run of a show.

This was a reproduction of the "Box of Doom" dice rolling tray prop commonly used on the internet game show "Dimension 20".

The project was built using primarily plywood, hard foam and air-dry clay. Making and applying air-dry clay as well as the carving foam in this way was new to me and will prove to be a valuable experience.

This project was a re-creation of "The Hand of Rodin" by Auguste Rodin.

I formed the held object out of plasticine and cast it in a silicone mold, which I then filled with plaster. With my own hand posed like Rodins, I repeated the casting method, this took a couple of attempts to get right but ultimately created an excellent sculture. Once dry, I combined the held object cast and the hand cast and painted them.

This is a leather D20 shaped die bag that I built, a D20 in case you are unfamiliar, is a twenty sided die commonly used in tabletop roleplaying games such as "Dungeons & Dragons". 

This project consisted of twenty identical leather triangles that I stitched together and carved numbers into (I even used an actual D20 for reference when assembling the bag as D20's have a standard arrangement for where numbers are on a die). Five of the pieces were left unstitched so that they could have a drawstring run through them.

Fun Fact: I made this project in my second year of university and I still use it to this day.