Martin JagoAnimatronics · Puppets · SFX

Mongrels

BBC Television
September - December 2008 & July - September 2009

Martin designed the mechanical and animatronic parts of the puppet characters for the BBC Three series Mongrels, from the pilot episode into the first series.

Puppets Created by Talk to the Hand

Animatronics Model Designer

Animatronic Model Designer for all puppet characters on the pilot episode. Additional mechanical puppet design for season 1.

Videos

Mongrels poster

Behind the scenes

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  • Nine finished Mongrels puppets, including a long haired dog, foxes, a grey cat, a badger, a hen and two rats, gathered together on a workshop bench

    BBC3 Pilot Group a

  • Unfurred foam puppet head with white eyeballs and black lids, an open mouth and a note card beneath it, in a workshop with a toy robot beside it

    Blinks in Place

  • Grey furless puppet head with large pale ears and white eyeballs under black lids, photographed on a workbench, low resolution and slightly blurred

    Cat ears

  • A man in a beanie pulls a face with his tongue out and one eye shut beside a pale shaggy dog puppet with a bandaged head

    Crazy Puppy

  • Underside of a feathered bird wing mechanism with white and grey feathers, pliers and a metal rod, resting on plastic wrap on a workshop bench

    Feathered Wing Btm

  • Upper side of a feathered puppet wing with dark grey feathers over a white mechanical frame, laid on plastic wrap on a workbench among tools

    Feathered Wing Top

  • Jointed cream foam puppet body with orange ears and a painted face standing on a small wooden base against a black backdrop, before any fur is added

    Marion Fabrication

  • Close view of Marion, a grey furred cat puppet with large white eyes, pinned lids and a pink nose, sitting on a cluttered workshop desk

    Marion before the Paintjob

  • Nelson the fox and Marion the grey cat in a red collar, two finished furred puppets posed side by side against a brick wall

    Nelson and Marion

  • Crew hold two fox puppets aloft on an underground den set with a camera operator at left, timber joists overhead and lamps clamped to stands

    Nelson's Den

  • A man in profile looks closely at a small grey bird puppet on rods and a brown rat hand puppet, in a workshop with pinned photographs behind

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  • Three furred puppets in costume on set, a grey cat dressed as a bishop in a white mitre between a fox and a pigeon

    Sermon

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