Betwixt 03: Life with Pixies

Make your doll part of the crowd: Using Photoshop to add your doll to a scene

The Betwixt characters seem to spend more time out and about then any of my other dolls, so I'm forever figuring out ways to make them part of the scene. Marta and Marcelo joined the crowd in the subway in their first episode. and later we caught up with them crossing the street: The tricks...

Backstage at Small Life Stories: How many photographs does it take to make a photographic novel?

In answer to the question in the title, a ton. I'm not a great photographer, but I'm a pretty good experimenter and I can (mostly) recognize a good photograph when I see it. What I can't do is reliably create one. So, I take A LOT of pictures to come up with the shots I...

When dolls go mad: Building a crazy wall for Marcelo

Has a real person ever created a crazy wall? Or does that only happen in films? In any case, if ever I saw a doll who might create a crazy wall, it's Marcelo (Granado Udell). And, after the last episode, where he suddenly found himself and his daughter in mortal danger in another world, it's...