Nudey Judy (2021)
Watch the full short here! Some process work is featured below
How does the material language of a hand-made puppet tell a story?
I wanted to make a nude woman puppet to tell a simple and funny story through a feminist lens. Nudey Judy is the story of a woman who takes pleasure in after-work rituals: like stripping naked, and smoking a joint.
The puppet's body is inspired by Etienne Gros' Mousses sculptures. The foam is entwined with a handmade aluminum and plumber's putty armature. The rest of the body is covered in canvas strips to give the puppet a skin-like colour that still expresses a materiality; not completely human, she is still a doll.
A magnet is embedded in Judy's head to house replacement eyes - which the performance relies on. The puppet's angular and material quality is softened by a handmade alpaca hair wig.
Created for Wrik Mead's stop motion class at OCAD U
Here are the roles I played:
Stop-Motion Animation; Character Animation; Puppet Fabrication; Set Fabrication; Prop Fabrication; Character Performance; Character Rigging; Storyboarding; Story Development; Lighting Design; Sound Design; Post Production
Here is the software I used:
Dragonframe 4; Photoshop; Premiere; Audition
Credits
Costume: Anne Tetrault
Voice of Judy: Gabrielle Tsilfidis
Advisor: Wrik Mead
Audio Engineer: Marius Royal
Special Thanks: Gerald Grison
