I'm a teacher by trade, but I am also one half of Poor Fishy Films - a small, independent film company here in Ontario.  We mainly do short comedy stuff for local film fests (and even won an award or two).  Until now.  We have just completed a script and begun casting our first feature-length film - a 1950s sci-fi spoof called It Came from Uranus.  The cast will all be custom puppets, including aliens, a traveling envelope salesman, a waitress, and a scientist (to name a few).  It will be a large undertaking and we kind of pride ourselves on doing these films one the shoe-stringiest of budgets, so it'll be a challenge to make something of quality while keeping costs down.

So hopefully all goes well.  I have begun to come up with some puppet designs and will start building puppets in the next week or two.  I will keep things up to date for anyone who might be interested.  Should be a fun project.  Stay tuned.

Nice! You're gonna have a lot of fun

Looking forward to seeing this develop.

Good luck can't wait see more!

Here is the almost complete Ensign Xjntz, Intergalactic Minion and the first of ten custom puppets for our upcoming feature-length film, It Came from Uranus.  He still needs arms, but they're really boring to do so I haven't done them yet..

Very fun!

Nice purple. Here there is a saying "purple is the last try"...

Thanks.  What is the deeper meaning of it?

Mostly it is used for fun, my granddad used this phrase a lot (I love wearing purple). Sometimes people joke if you wear purple to a date... . It is a bit oldfashioned, though, maybe related to the old language of flowers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_flowers

Well, my first puppet for the Uranus film is complete.  Allow me to introduce you to Ensign Xjntz - Evil Alien Minion from Uranus.

Very fun! The big collar and cuffs really fits the 50s era. I like the shape of the hands.

I Love it! nice touch on the arms and hands.

Thanks.  Here is his boss (so far) - Galaxass of Uranus

Does the "antenna" wobble when they move their heads? All your details make it so intersting.

Yeah, they move.  It's a neat effect.  The purple guy's bulb will light up when I'm finished.  Just need to get an LED and wire him up.  I'll post a video when I get it all put together.