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(Often theyre just played byactors in mascot-style suits.)
Her approach was,Lets not stylize them too much.
Lets not make them a broom and an eyeball.
Lets mean it, Ortiz said.
In the case of the dino, the actors sync their movements by breathing.
Theyre on a live mic, so the audience hears the big creature breathe in and out.
The fact that the puppet is breathing is the first beginning to making it live.
We let those grace notes be grace notes and have the behavior be pets, Oritz said.
Because that behavior makes them all the more endearing.
Our lizard brains in the audience go, Thats my dog!
