It seems I often find my dolls like this, sitting in chairs (or benches, in this case) waiting for their adventure to begin. In Fern's case, she's about to start a grand-ish adventure, if I could just figure out what it was :). What I'd *like* to do is do very short animations with her... Continue Reading →
***** This episode marks the first time I can recall when I completely ran out of inspiration. The girls sat for weeks on my desk, with no clarity at all on what they were going to do. It was the delivery of a little felted cat that broke the dam - the episode just fell... Continue Reading →
In our last episode, Cosette befriended a rat, and the whole team spent the night in the sewers under Paris. We continue our story on the next morning. *** For all of my fussing about Mathilde this week, clearly my (surprisingly) calm dog, Sydney, was the star of the episode. *** What I learned this... Continue Reading →
***** I was worried all week that the pieces of this episode wouldn't come together - right up until the last few days, I didn't actually have a plot - but, in the end, I'm pretty happy with how everything turned out. My one remaining concern is that this is an awfully truncated version of... Continue Reading →
*********************** One of the hardest parts of creating a story built around actual figures that I can see and touch, is that I feel an enormous weight when I set them onto some awful path. Yes, I understand that Camellia is a doll, but I pass her every day in the bookcase, still lying in... Continue Reading →
I have to confess, I don't actually know what's going on with Betwixt. I had some idea of a parent/child or master/apprentice type thing with the two main characters, with some magic and moving between worlds thrown in. And then, suddenly, my little Maskcat doll, who was meant to be a side character, suddenly made... Continue Reading →
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