Martin JagoAnimatronics · Puppets · SFX

Running Wild

Chichester Festival Theatre
April - August 2015

Martin designed, prototyped and built the animatronic parts of the full-size elephant and tiger in Running Wild at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2015.

Puppets Created by Gyre and Gimble

Animatronics Mechanic

Mechanical design and construction for Oona the elephant. Early R & D on articulated legs for the puppet tiger for the initial Chichester Festival production. Subsequently staged at the Open Air theatre, Regents Park and on a UK Tour.

Videos

Running Wild poster

Behind the scenes

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  • One of the crew in a striped shirt and backpack frame sands the black foam head of Oona the elephant in a cluttered workshop

    Oona Head Structure

  • Oona the elephant's carved black foam head with chalk pattern lines and a jointed trunk of stacked discs resting on a workshop floor

    Oona Head Pattern by Nick Barnes

  • The life sized elephant puppet walking through a sunlit wood with a puppeteer at its trunk

    Elephant in the Forest

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