This past summer I was approached by the guys from The Kids Music Underground in New York City to build some puppets for their new show. The group makes really fun music for kids and travels around the city teaching and putting on live shows.

What intrigued me was the really eclectic mix of characters they had in mind, including a koala with dredlocks, a Cubist (think: the painting style) bull, and an anime style catgirl. Usually the challenging projects end up becoming the fun and rewarding projects, and that was definitely the case here. How was it challenging, you ask? Well…how, for instance, do you turn a Picasso-like painting of a bull into a believable three-dimensional object? I think we figured it out.

I want to spend the next couple of posts giving you a closer look at the puppets, including some pics from production. Up first will be the Koala. He’s the laid back, easy going one of the bunch:

I absolutely love this guy’s color and texture.

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