A few years back, Dan had built a Jersey Devil for a haunt we did in my backyard. It was a rod puppet and needed two people to operate it (see below) We knew this Devil had to be operated by one person.
Dan was inspired by the polar Iorek Berenson polar bear puppet in a London staging of The Golden Compass.
He opted for a "backpack" design, and the creature's body would ultimately be inspired by both the Wendigo and the Jersey Devil.
He did an initial mock up with cardboard.
Then produced the limbs with a 3D printer.
And assembled it on a five foot stepladder.
He added wings.
And fur.
It started to remind us of Gossamer, the hairy, red monster from Bugs Bunny.
He produced a horse skull and deer antlers, again with the 3D printer, and glued them together.
Then he painted it.
