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Sculpture and Stop-motion Puppets by Joshua & Nathan Flynn. Bristol/Pembrokeshire, UK
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The ringing of the bell commands you!
Today is the anniversary of Over the Garden Wall, so it seems appropriate to share another puppet from the stop motion short film that we worked on a couple of years ago, and it's one of my favourites. Auntie Whispers is here to keep evil spirits from driving you to wickedness.
#overthegardenwall #auntiewhispers #handmade
03 Nov 2026
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but a scrolling phone will gather Moss Monsters!
This was a pitch sculpt I made a few years ago for a McDonalds halloween commercial, directed by Renee Zhan @ummmrenee . It’s made out of upholstery foam, plucked, flocked, painted and dripping with green slime.
#handmade #monster #sculpture
30 Oct 2026
A fond fare thee well from the Ferryboat Frogs. Josh made this trio of puppets for the Over the Garden Wall anniversary film.
#overthegardenwall #puppetmakjng #stopmotion #handmade
20 Oct 2026
The good thing about plastiline clay is that it can be melted and easily recycled. Just a bit of gentle heat and the hard clay turns to liquid. Very useful to help keep material costs down and reduce waste. I don’t have the space to keep every sculpture I make and It’s quite satisfying to watch them slowly sink into a puddle, ready to be reincarnated.
#recycle
02 Oct 2026
The disembodied head of @dannyrobinswithoneb , made for a BBC Sounds commercial earlier this year, directed by @essy_may & @_stevie_gee_
This was the first time I've ever made a ventriloquist dummy, so it was a fun challenge to figure out the internal mechanisms. I have to admit though, I was relieved when he was shipped away for the live action shoot. I was finally able to escape his glassy eyes following me around the studio. Perhaps it was a mistake to sculpt him using clay dug up from the local cemetery. Maybe I shouldn't have cheaped out and sourced hair from the mortuary. Lubricating the eyes with the tears of children was unnecessary. You live and learn.
#puppetmaking #ventriloquistdummy #handmade
30 Sep 2026
Another puppet from last year's Dutch State Lottery advert. I’m not sure why this cat is grumpy. Perhaps he’s just copying his owner. Grumpy see, grumpy do.
#puppetmaking #stopmotion #handmade
09 Sep 2026
You’d be grumpy too if somebody scrolled into a video of you wearing nothing but your socks and shoes. Here’s some sculpting work on a puppet I made last year. This was for a Dutch State Lottery Christmas commercial directed by @joseph___mann with @blink_ink .
#sculpting #stopmotion #handmade
03 Sep 2026
BOOKS & Stop Motion ANIMATION - two of my favourite things!
Special thanks to Josh Flynn @sculptdouble for his outrageous puppet & stop motion skills!
26 Apr 2026
Here's Director @lauratofarides and Josh Flynn @sculptdouble acting out a reference video for our stop-motion short film, Brain Space @brainspacefilm 🧠🚀🎥
Before shooting, animators often create LAVs (Live Action Videos) of themselves acting out scenes to get a better understanding of the performance and timings in a shot. They can look pretty goofy and it's best not to follow them exactly but they help to improve the character performance. Filming your own LAV's helps you to embody the movement and feel where the weight and tension in the body is. They also help you to identify, exaggerate and push key poses.
LAVs are a lot of fun to make. Even for serious scenes it can be tricky to keep a straight face. You'll notice we switch roles between shots, that's because we don't have to stick with a character and usually we'd both have a go at playing each part.
There's a LAV for almost every shot in the film but I think Brain Space: The LAV Cut would be quite a ridiculous watch.
Also, I know what you're thinking...was the paper nose cone necessary?
Yes. Yes it was.
#BrainSpaceFilm #StopMotion #Animation #ShortFilm #BehindTheScenes
02 Feb 2026
Here's how we animated the Smoke Bomb shot in our Stop-Motion short film, Brain Space ☁️
Our main character, Rhi, sprints towards the stage only for the Magician to vanish in a cloud of smoke!
This was a challenging shot that required a manual camera move, sliding the camera across the set in increments keeping pace with the running puppet, tilting the angle up, switching to UV lights and finally animating an explosion of cotton, all in camera 🎥
Josh (@sculptdouble ) rehearsed the shot by blocking out the scenes actions. The first blocks tested only the camera movements, timings and focus. Further blocks tested the puppets performance and smoke animation before going for the final take.
The cotton smoke was animated on a pane of clear acrylic that was inserted on set at the moment of the explosion. Swirls of cotton tufts were attached using tacky wax and tape.
We really love the stylistic look of cotton smoke in stop-motion and wanted to use as many tactile, practical effects as possible 🎨
Do you have a favourite practical stop motion smoke effect?
#Brainspacefilm #Stopmotion #Animation #behindthescenes #PracticalEffects
20 Jan 2026
An act of three parts, breaking down the Masked Magician's first reveal in our stop-motion short film, Brain Space.
Here's Josh of @sculptdouble performing in a LAV (live action video) to use as reference while animating. LAVs are a great way to figure out timings and what poses work for a character. The Magician is very theatrical and elegant here, his motions are mysterious, precise and practiced and we wanted to exaggerate his swift sleight of hand. Having a character with no body opened up a lot of opportunities for us to be creative with the characters performance, however the animation rigging used to support the "floating" head and hands had to be removed from the raw footage in post production.
The real magician is @zuhairmehrali who made all of the rigging disappear for the final shots.
I've always loved finding out how magic is done and seeing behind the scenes at how films are made. It's too interesting to be kept secret. 🪄✨️
@brainspacefilm
#Brainspacefilm #Stopmotion #Animation #Behindthescenes #shortfilm
16 Jan 2026
Here's a look at the puppet of Rhi, the main character of @brainspacefilm , our stop-motion short film that was recently long listed for a Bafta!🌟
Her different expressions were created with a number of hand made replacement faces. In the film, Rhi crash lands into her own mind space, her retro space suit protects her through the journey but in reality this puppet survived 5 years of animation production. This puppet is one of a kind and has held up incredibly well.
I need to get some space trousers.
Puppet made by Josh Flynn of @Sculptdouble
#BrainSpaceFilm #StopMotion #Animation #puppetmaking
14 Jan 2026
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