After having most of the past week off to work on Bear Town I'm tied up all week next week doing some freelance work which is nice because I'm a little Bear Towned out right now.

This is Omle and Hank, two of Bear Town's three main characters (the other is of course Tumbles). They won't appear in most of the web series exactly as you see them here because I pulled them out this weekend for a bit of a makeover. Their arms are being rebuilt and their bodies are being reinforced. I'm building a new eye mech for Hank (he has to be able to glare at people a lot) because the old one doesn't seem to work properly anymore. I'll also be rebuilding Omle's snout because I've just never really liked the way it fit on my hand. Hope to have most of the work done by Monday so I'm not too frantic next week.

One of our puppeteers had to drop out due to some personal issues. I was luckily able to replace them on short notice when someone I had a trained as a puppeteer last year agreed to step in yesterday. I also found out there's no chance some of the puppets I had ordered for scenes in the first episode will be done in time because of some problems the builder is having so I frantically had to write a new episode to replace it. What I had planned as episode #1 is going to be bumped to #3 or #4 (I haven't decided yet) and the new episodes #1-2 get taped next weekend with a few pick-ups to be shot a week or so later. At some point I'd love to set-up a live webcam during one of the tapings so people can see what goes on but I doubt I'll have that together in time for next week's taping.

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