Puppetry
A shadow-puppet film cut from paper, painted skies, and patience.
Puppetry — final film
A short shadow-puppet film. Every silhouette cut from black paper, every sky painted by hand on a single sheet of canvas, every frame shot one at a time against backlit cloth. A small handmade world that moves only because someone moved it.
Started with paper, scissors, and the question — can a story hold up if every prop is flat?
Cut each character — the crocodile, the bee, the figures, the willow — by hand from black cardstock. Saved the off-cuts; they became the next scene's birds.
Painted the sky on a single bed-sheet-sized canvas in watercolour washes — teal, cyan, a small ember sun with an eye for a centre. The sky had to feel like weather, not wallpaper.
Shot frame by frame against a backlit screen with the puppets on thin sticks. Stop motion teaches patience the way nothing else does — you learn to love the boring middle of every move.