Created 3 costume builds start to finish for Old Guards in tombstones
Duplicate Costumes
Undead Delroy costumes for both puppets
Socks and bowties for Siobhan, Sloane, and Sweetie
Wimples for Sister Helley
Collars and dress pleats for Wilma
Made large scale sleeves and cuffs for Wendell hands
Fabricated Undead Brewery Worker shirts
Made stunt sleeves for Sister Helley for the Redemption Chamber
Worked closely with the armature department to wire Undead Father Bests’ capes
Maintenance and repairs for all costumes including wire fixes, necklace repairs, elastic stitching for animation needs, fabric cleaning, fabric pull fixes, skirt tin replacement, pressing, etc.
Last looks on stages
Sally is a version of myself. Believe it or not, my hair used to be cut just like this and it was lime green!
The slippers Sally wears are based off of my favorite slippers by Line Friends. The Line Friends character on my slippers just so happens to be named Sally, which was my Aunt’s name whom I was named after.
Funny enough, Aunt Sally’s real name was Sarah.
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This pink jacket can be stop motion animated! It includes multiple backings, wired understructures, foam inserts, and designed fabrics I made using various materials such as hand cut vinyls, intricate beading, and heat-tool pressed details to achieve the look of buttons, lace, hems, and trims at small scale for stop-motion puppets.
I really enjoyed working on this piece and someday wish to finish the other sleeve! This project was a way for me to practice all types of costume fabricating techniques for stop-motion puppets.
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To view this work, please reach out to me for the password. For this project, I fabricated costumes for 14 puppets.
To celebrate my brother’s birthday and the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch, I’ve created his character in puppet form and gifted it to him!
I love recreating these characters in 3D and wish to create more inspired by the video game in the future!
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These costume boards were featured in:
"The Art of Kubo and the Two Strings" book
"Animating Life: The Art, Science, and Wonder of Laika" - Portland Art Museum
"From Coraline to Kubo: A Magical Experience" - Universal Studios Hollywood
"Laika 10yr Anniversary Exhibition" - Nucleus Gallery, LA
"Creative Spark: Deborah Cook" - The Academy: Academy Originals, Youtube
Thom Browne. New York.
Here’s a project I made for my brother’s birthday! It’s a work in progress and I’ve had so much fun working on it. Soon I’ll be adding the controllers!
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Animal Crossing was my favorite Nintendo game growing up. My mom would always play it with my brothers and I on our Gamecube. When Animal Crossing: New Leaf came out on the Nintendo 3DS, my brothers and I pitched in to give my mom a DS of her own with Animal Crossing on it.
This puppet was a surprise gift for my momma. It’s her Animal Crossing character.
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This was a semester long project which is in progress.
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Beyond the Page: Death Becomes Us was a class I took at Parsons exploring the rituals and traditions of death. The baby represents stillborn births and refers to Victorian funerary gowns for babies.
The album cover is the death certificate of Adolfo Pirelli, a man decapitated by Sweeney Todd.
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Images provided by Sarah Faber. All rights reserved.
Images provided by Sarah Faber. All rights reserved.
