Iconic Horse Puppet (Stop-Motion also applicable)
Looking to hire a talented or upcoming artist for a naturalistic art horror project that requires a need for a 1.5-3 foot tall puppet horse creature or doll/figure if stop motion is your specialty!) with animatronic parts (if possible). Rod puppet preferred but string-operated is not out of the question if the animatronic portions can be accomplished. There are renderings to make the creature design a smooth process. Going for a realistic creature design with plenty of creative room. Budget negotiable, but I have been made aware of the proper material cost-to-labor and this being a small independent venture is the key to the project's future success.
Description:
A bald, reddened magenta colored horse rod puppet with a metallic grey shimmer in its a super fine coat of fur. Height of 2.5 maximum; compacted to the proportion of a starved filly. For the purpose of the film, we need a true-to-nature anatomical female design for the purpose of the film.
The face will have a coiled donkey fur covering except where the bone is exposed, but the furring can have a dark speckled grey pattern. You will may have to dab the tips of the furring to give it that unnatural gleam atop of the other elements described. Fangs combined with flat horse teeth. Forked tongue. Just the tip of the creature's skeletal nose will be exposed from the fur having shrunk around it like fossilized permafrost remains. Tarnished brown hoof nails, removable ram horns the same color as the Pangolin scales that cover its back up to the middle of it in the shape of an hourglass. The hooves in the front will be humanly articulated, being able to bend forward and back like a wrist. Large eyes preferred. Two sets of large eyes: realistic blind horse eye and a anime-styled (dead) fish-eye, and skin patches to go over them based upon the visual motifs of the film.
The skin should be scabbed like chemical burns, smooth in the face, and wrinkled from dehydration. A super thin coat of straightened hair around the backside like a pair of pants and a bikini at its neck-torso area, leaving the stomach and underside exposed. Shorter spiral pig tail with a deformed spade point. The spine should be that dark red color, mixed in with the grey to make it natural. A set of leathery dark limbed bat wings with inner pink skin transparency, purplish veins flatten its back. Make the under portions grey like necrosis flesh and recreate the yellowed skin of human fat around the genital area and the lips and under the ribs and in that gap at the hips. The stomach near the teats can be a rich yellow like oxygen exposed fat. Ultimately, resembling pink marble with its yellow (magenta!)-pink-grey hue (make it look like marbled ice cream, this is for a thematic film reason). Make sure the skin is transparent like regular skin while achieving all these specific colorings.
Will be exposed to water elements (rain, snow, mud) on its body it if you need to add a light protective coating on the skin. Will have to withstand water (coming from a hose).
Description of movement:
The horse puppet will have to sit, lay out flat, legs will have to maneuver like a horse but be jointed like a cat. 360 degrees of motion (or close to it), to stand like a horse, sit up like a dog. Needs to be rigid enough to set in place, stand by itself, maneuvering around like crawling under a bed. Breathable chest? The wings will need to flap and have some flexibility. The expressive face in the script will require the lips being made of rubber (or your choice of material) along with the movable jaw for talking but still be settable enough to hold something in its mouth. Moving ears, eyes, snout. The creature will bite, smiling, frown, have a retractable tongue.
The look you are going for is supposed to be a combination of the elements of a cave environment, natural texture and frame of a horse being subtly malformed by it meaning the noticeable bones (ribs, spine ridge, forelegs) are out of place for effect, bruises and chemical burn skin peeling effect for the creature having struggled in this environment but was too sick and starved. To indicate the cave setting having changed the creature's appearance to a degree. The exposed bone is yellowish to a dull yellow-black.
Also, make it surrealistic like a Hieronymous Bosch painting or Salvador Dali with the main inspiration being a medieval dragon painting. It will have to replicate that extravagant look if you artistically inclined to notice. We are trying to scare the audience with the look of the creature and win their support with it's face so I don't mind if you make it disgusting looking to the point of revulsion as long as it is realistic enough to do all the actions in the script without looking like it's body is going to fall apart due to gravity.
Message me your contact and business information so that we can discuss the project in-depth and see if we can negotiate or get something made.
Send me a response here or via email contact: 1@tylingimagery.com (No phone calls!)
Description:
A bald, reddened magenta colored horse rod puppet with a metallic grey shimmer in its a super fine coat of fur. Height of 2.5 maximum; compacted to the proportion of a starved filly. For the purpose of the film, we need a true-to-nature anatomical female design for the purpose of the film.
The face will have a coiled donkey fur covering except where the bone is exposed, but the furring can have a dark speckled grey pattern. You will may have to dab the tips of the furring to give it that unnatural gleam atop of the other elements described. Fangs combined with flat horse teeth. Forked tongue. Just the tip of the creature's skeletal nose will be exposed from the fur having shrunk around it like fossilized permafrost remains. Tarnished brown hoof nails, removable ram horns the same color as the Pangolin scales that cover its back up to the middle of it in the shape of an hourglass. The hooves in the front will be humanly articulated, being able to bend forward and back like a wrist. Large eyes preferred. Two sets of large eyes: realistic blind horse eye and a anime-styled (dead) fish-eye, and skin patches to go over them based upon the visual motifs of the film.
The skin should be scabbed like chemical burns, smooth in the face, and wrinkled from dehydration. A super thin coat of straightened hair around the backside like a pair of pants and a bikini at its neck-torso area, leaving the stomach and underside exposed. Shorter spiral pig tail with a deformed spade point. The spine should be that dark red color, mixed in with the grey to make it natural. A set of leathery dark limbed bat wings with inner pink skin transparency, purplish veins flatten its back. Make the under portions grey like necrosis flesh and recreate the yellowed skin of human fat around the genital area and the lips and under the ribs and in that gap at the hips. The stomach near the teats can be a rich yellow like oxygen exposed fat. Ultimately, resembling pink marble with its yellow (magenta!)-pink-grey hue (make it look like marbled ice cream, this is for a thematic film reason). Make sure the skin is transparent like regular skin while achieving all these specific colorings.
Will be exposed to water elements (rain, snow, mud) on its body it if you need to add a light protective coating on the skin. Will have to withstand water (coming from a hose).
Description of movement:
The horse puppet will have to sit, lay out flat, legs will have to maneuver like a horse but be jointed like a cat. 360 degrees of motion (or close to it), to stand like a horse, sit up like a dog. Needs to be rigid enough to set in place, stand by itself, maneuvering around like crawling under a bed. Breathable chest? The wings will need to flap and have some flexibility. The expressive face in the script will require the lips being made of rubber (or your choice of material) along with the movable jaw for talking but still be settable enough to hold something in its mouth. Moving ears, eyes, snout. The creature will bite, smiling, frown, have a retractable tongue.
The look you are going for is supposed to be a combination of the elements of a cave environment, natural texture and frame of a horse being subtly malformed by it meaning the noticeable bones (ribs, spine ridge, forelegs) are out of place for effect, bruises and chemical burn skin peeling effect for the creature having struggled in this environment but was too sick and starved. To indicate the cave setting having changed the creature's appearance to a degree. The exposed bone is yellowish to a dull yellow-black.
Also, make it surrealistic like a Hieronymous Bosch painting or Salvador Dali with the main inspiration being a medieval dragon painting. It will have to replicate that extravagant look if you artistically inclined to notice. We are trying to scare the audience with the look of the creature and win their support with it's face so I don't mind if you make it disgusting looking to the point of revulsion as long as it is realistic enough to do all the actions in the script without looking like it's body is going to fall apart due to gravity.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.treehugger.com%2Fpink-animals-4859264&psig=AOvVaw17h2bl6bniKIVwTnJMGYbl&ust=1717502543097000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCMCF8OSxv4YDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAZ - skin tone color, darker color around the scaly-chemical burn portions
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmadbarn.ca%2Flavender-foal-syndrome%2F&psig=AOvVaw3niFt_4qDS6ovhlV11N41_&ust=1717502820852000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCIjm34Ozv4YDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE - ideal shape, limb size of horse (a child actor will delicately mount it (sit), so will have to be sturdy and ideally around 2-2.5 feet tall, 1.5-2 feet wide max)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_horse - pattern design inspiration
Budget ~$5,000. If willing to take payment arrangements because of our production status, then negotiations can be considered.
Message me your contact and business information so that we can discuss the project in-depth and see if we can negotiate or get something made.
Send me a response here or via email contact: 1@tylingimagery.com (No phone calls!)
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