The Dwarf
Hero. One of the four around the chain.
The Chain That Binds Us
Where the saga is built, beat by beat.
Story is where Siddo builds the film, beat by beat and shot by shot. Its sister, the lab, is the world you walk down through, layer by layer. This page is the cast who live there, and how each of them was made.
Descend the chain in the lab →I The protagonist
The Maker
The protagonist. He sits at the Table.- Before the first shore, before the first word was written, there was the Table.
- At the Table sat the Maker. Beneath it lay the void.
- Vast is the void, older than counting. For long ages it lies still as black glass.
- Still the Maker writes. World upon world he has set down, tale upon tale.
- From the Table's edge the chains go down, deeper than any eye has followed.
- On them hang his worlds: all a people dreamt, all they broke, still burning.
- Then the void wakes. Its roaring is heard in every world that ever was.
- Up those chains, slow as rust and patient as tide, something climbs.
II The heroes
Four stand around the chain.
The Maker and three more. Each one began as a concept sheet and became a rigged figure.
The Gnome
Hero. One of the four around the chain.
The Treant
Hero. One of the four around the chain.
III The townsfolk
They fill the square and the streets.
The people of the board, from the first sheets to the figures that stand in the town.
From the sheets
01 Townsman 
02 Model 
01 Townswoman 
02 Model
IV The making
Carved first. Then made into people.
Rigged characters, built from the front, side and back concept sheets. Thirty-plus so far.
- 01Concept
Front, side and back, on one sheet.
- 02Model
Built from the sheets, in 3D.
- 03Rig
Props kept separate, so the rigs stay clean.
- 04Animate
Each one plays through its moves.
Every choice is made by hand. The machines only carry it out.
Work in progress. Come back deeper.
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