Markus has been making a model farmyard for an external film project. The plan is to show the landscape now as a pig farm then 400 years prior as a lush and biodiverse forest.
It’s interesting talking with him, I assumed miniature makers were very specialist but he said he’s not necessarily had any training or done this extensively before. He’s worked with the theatre and Oliver a lot before and has learnt as he’s done various projects with them.
Me and some other interns who were on a production course were asking how Oliver got into puppet making and this work of theatre making. He said he slowly fell into it and developed his skills. He recommended if we want to get more into puppet and theatre making that we should just do what we can in our own time and offer our skills to friends or local projects, talk to others about it, post about our work online and generally let it be known that we do this kind on work.