Jigsaw Behind the Scenes 02 – Building Regibor.

Watch in Quicktime hereabouts.

One thing that is nice about this new era of Hope is that I suddenly feel less pressured to preemptively defend sincerity.

Yes, this video is 15 minutes long, and is a fairly straight-forward behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Regibor puppet. Not a lot of irony here; I thought maybe somebody might be interested in how I work. Especially the younger viewers.

Also, and there’s no reason why you’d know this, but I’m working on a show at a local theater (Live Arts, for the Cville-knowing), and I’m designing a puppet and some live special effects. It’s a youth show, and all of the production staff have youth apprentices, and my apprentice is this super-awesome middle-school kid named Danny. Seriously, if I could spend about a week teaching this kid a few things, I could retire and let him work the play. He’s really awesome, and has a great love of puppets, and I feel like I’m not giving him enough to chew on.

So yes, this video is partly a placeholder so I don’t have to end the series on the Xmas special, and so I can have a bit of time to film the last two episodes. But mostly, it’s a special episode for Dangerous Dan. And even just a few months ago, I would have felt the need to apologize for that, but now, I’m fine with it. Because dammit, it’s my show, and if I want to direct it towards a single viewer, I don’t see anything wrong with that. Sincerity is GOOD.

And no, I have NO IDEA what happened halfway through to make the screen suddenly go completely bonkers with digital artifacts. For a behind the scenes show, I can’t be bothered to care. I blame iMovie.

Actually, that’s a whole other rant, not one even worth having in this space. Selah.

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