IDans festival, Istanbul

Straight after the Soccer World-Cup Creature-designing and building began for the very next project, called i-Kedi (Istanbul Cat) and is part of the yearly IDans festival in Turkey.

This time around only Roger and Mia were to be busy on the project . Since cats seem to play a major role in the life of Istanbulians Roger prepared to build 3 massive cats....

In August 20 the project i-Kedi was completed and very successful:

Roger recently returned from Istanbul where he created three 4M long cats that were operated from the back of a vehicle by local manipulators.

With the assistance of M!a van Zyl he also designed 5 smaller puppets that were built by the general public at workshops

around the city.

Over 20 teachers were employed and shown how to build the puppets. They in turn helped the citizens of Istanbul build 4500 puppets.

Due to the success of the project we will be repeating the exercise this year, 2011.

http://www.rogerscreatures.com/idans.html Here you can have a more in-depth look.