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Sleeping Dragon Studios, Ltd	Little Shop of Horrors St.Croix Festival Theatre, St.Croix Falls, WI. PLANT CONSTRUCTION DIARY OPENED MAY 20th, 2004! The plants have been retired! PROJECT STATS: Over 300 pounds of Polystyrene 5 Gallons of Sculpt or Coat 6 Gallons of paintt 140 yards of cheese cloth *Over 700 man-hours of work
PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS









POD ONE Instead of a hand puppet which is typically used for POD1, I decided to design a radio controlled animatronic plant. This will allow more flexibility in choreography and look really bad-ass cool!


5/14/2004
5/12/2004
5/12/2004
5/11/2004 Leaves and turtle neck.
5/10/2004 Tongue attached and first coat of yellow.
5/3/2004 Head attached.
4/17/2004 Final neck assembly
4/20/2004 Stunt Pod for rehearsal
Prototype POD 1 - Neck up Radio controlled	Prototype POD 1 - Neck down
POD 1 - Beak ready for mounting on neck assembly


POD TWO

6/4/2004 POD 2 Finished sitting on the nose of POD 4!

5/7/2004

5/6/2004
4/26/2004 POD (right) almost ready for paint and leaves.
4/23/2004 Inside of mouth.
Audrey II and I like to watch Dr.Phil in the afternoons.
4/20/2004 Back side of POD TWO
4/15/2004 Lower jaw almost finished!
Rough-in of lower jaw
Upper "beak" of puppet



POD THREE


6/4/2004 POD 3 Finished! Right side.
6/4/2004 POD 3 with mouth open
6/4/2004 POD 3 with operator (root booties not shown)

6/4/2004 POD 3 pot showing seat, seat belts, back leafs and root booties.

5/14/2004
5/6/2004 Lower jaw attached
5/4/2004 Base coat of yellow is drying.
5/4/2004 Kelly applying Sculpt or Coat to the upper beak of POD 3
4/30/2004



4/29/2004 Top beak almost done!
4/26/2004
4/23/2004
4/20/2004 Cutting the foam! Bonnie is checking that the cut is straight.
4/20/2004 Cutting the foam!
Is it lunch-time yet!!??
4/15/2004 Almost ready to cut out Pod 3.
4/4/2004 Delivery of two really big blocks of foam. Each weigh about 100 Lbs.
3/15/2004 Concept sculpture
POD FOUR
6/4/2004 POD 4 Finished!



5/19/2004

5/18/2004


5/18/2004 Packing up POD 4 for a trip to the theatre. Doc is making sure she will not fall out.

5/17/2004


5/1/2004 Karl helping rough cut POD 4
4/29/2004 Terry helping rough cut POD 4


MISCELLANEOUS
Kelly filling pots with plaster
Sculpt of plant puppet that will be for sale in theatre gift shop and my website



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