Color sketches, click on them to see them larger

The next step in the process is to do color sketches of all the puppets. Keep in mind that the costumes on the sketches are just placeholders, not the actual costume design…that comes later.

After this? We’re going to storyboard out the entire show to make sure that the 20 puppets can all work together on stage. For example, we need to figure out what does the set need to hide and what can it reveal, we need to make sure that the way one puppet is operated doesn’t interfere with another, or that we don’t have too many puppeteers that need to be hidden behind a playboard at one time, those kind of things.

So, it’s time to actually plot out the whole show. Oh boy. Deep breath.