fabrication & bts

Puppets, props, and sets created by Elly Stern for her 2020 stop motion film Waste Away.

PROPS & PUPPETS - Woman puppet: Wire armature, build up foam, bandages, latex, ProsAid & Acrylic skin, baked Sculpey head, soft sculpey jaw for movement, plasticine lips, eyebrows, pupils; Fish puppet: wire armature, foam, bandages, ProPoxy, latex & acrylic skin, Cinefoil moveable fins

SETS - Alleyway (32x80"): joint compound, handmade paper, sand + plaster + concrete texture medium & acrylic on foam core for pavement; Beach: leather & sand for shore, plastic wrap for water

Jar

PRE & POST PRODUCTION - Post-production keying & editing done in After Effects