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In August 2006 we had the premiere of "Väx upp" (Grow up!) on Folkteatern. I got the chance to make quite a lot of fun things for it. One of them was a pregnant belly. As I had one at home I couldn't resist to use the real thing. So I made a cast of my wife Heather and made a copy of little Jack before he came out.	Here you can see Karin Sillberg wear my wife's big belly.	They also wanted a "Ganesh" elephant God for a drug inspired scene in India. So I sculpted a big belly and an elephant face for it. Made the pieces in silicone and made copies of my hands in gelatine so he could have four hands pointing out like a true God.
Here the body suit is hanging on a special dummy prior to putting it on. Hey, I even made the hat for him! Not my usual thing to do but it was fun!	Two pictures from the program. It is a shame that they didn't use a picture where he shows all four arms. The elephant arms showing are my fake ones. Photo: Kalle Sanner (c)	More fun stuff. The director came in giggling away and asked if I could do a "Mission impossible" mask that should look like the lead actor but be pulled off when the actor came in for real. I had no idea how to make it but I don't like to say no.
So I made casts of both actors and made a silicone mould of the lead guy. Did a clay press in that and transferred it to the positive of the stand in. Made a mould of it and made a silicone mask that could be put on in less than 30 seconds.	Here is Stefan Sporsén dressed up as Per Umearus. We luckily didn't need to care about the edges around the eyes as it couldn't be seen in the special lights of that scene. On stage it worked really well. I even managed to fool Per's wife that it was him. Needless to say she got scared when he started to pull his face off!	Some very quick handpuppets I made for the same show. Two days before the premiere the director came up with the idea to have these. Not being the guy who says No I made both of them in a grand total of five hours.

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