If you listen closely, you can hear some kind of martial arts class taking place inside that building. The background is video I shot on my iPhone near the Tokyo Imperial Palace. These 126 frames of animation were shot on the cyclorama green screen stage I designed and built from scratch. In the case of POSERS, each puppet requires a different negotiation of trust through trial and error.

I love a good challenge, pushing the limits whenever I can. I chose to limit any use of rigging, like traditional screw-downs or magnets, preferring instead to achieve each pose by natural balance. They have substantial weight and can reproduce 90% of human movement.

They have a seamless body made from medical-grade silicone. The posable figures feature a stainless steel ball-jointed armature with 26 points of articulation. Phicen puppets, and most of these costumes and props are made in China. I found the hat separately, and had to trim its brim with manicure scissors to match Bond’s original Trilby hat. The head sculpt is an older Sean Connery. The costume is specifically for a Secret Agent, and the fit is always too tight. This is a 1:6 scale Phicen M31 puppet, approximately 12 inches tall. Here we set the tone visually for our character’s Cold War roots by using a Cast filter and a soft-focus background. Act 1 opens with James Bondáge stumbling drunk through a Tokyo neighborhood at dusk, desperately looking for a place to pee while trying to screw a silencer onto his pistol.

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