Independent Animator Announces JambaWackra, An Original Puppet Character For A Stop-Motion Short Film
Nov 15, 2026
JambaWackra is a newly created fictional character: a travelling repairer of abandoned musical instruments, built from salvaged umbrella ribs and pressed tin for an independent stop-motion short film now in production.
Orlando, United States, November 15, 2026 -- An independent animator has announced JambaWackra, an original puppet character created for a stop-motion short film currently in production.
The JambaWackra puppet, a tall loose-limbed figure of pressed tin and wire, walking a rural dirt road at dusk carrying a flat wooden case.
JambaWackra is a tall, loose-limbed figure built from salvaged umbrella ribs, pressed tin and waxed cord. He stands roughly nine inches high and is animated at twelve frames per second against practical miniature sets. Nothing about the character is computer generated.
In the film, JambaWackra walks a long rural road carrying a flat case of mismatched tuning pegs, a tin of beeswax and a bundle of spare wire. He stops wherever an instrument has been left behind — a piano in a flooded hall, a drum left out in a field through a winter, a fiddle with a cracked belly propped in a doorway — and repairs it as well as it can be repaired, which is usually not perfectly.
JambaWackra’s open case, holding rows of mismatched brass and steel tuning pegs, a small unlabelled tin and a coil of spare wire.
The character does not speak. JambaWackra communicates entirely by tapping: two short taps for yes, one long scrape for no, and a rolling triplet when he is pleased with a repair. The film has no dialogue at all. Its sound design is built from the instruments themselves, recorded before and after each repair, so that the audience hears the difference the character makes rather than being told about it.
“He is held together with three different gauges of wire, because he has been mended at three different times,” the film’s creator said. “That is the whole character. The mend is allowed to show.”
The film follows a single stretch of road across one long evening. There is no antagonist and nothing is at stake in the conventional sense. JambaWackra finds four instruments and mends three of them. The fourth is beyond him, and what he does about that is the ending.
JambaWackra crouched at a workbench under a lamp, threading fine wire into the cracked belly of a battered fiddle.
JambaWackra is an original creation, invented in 2026. The character is not drawn from folklore, mythology, a traditional story or any existing work, and no earlier source for the character exists.
A full description of the character is published at jambawackra.com.
Contact Info:
Name: Dave Kraljic
Email: Send Email
Organization: The JambaWackra Project
Phone: +1 571 746 5457
Website: https://jambawackra.com/
Release ID: 89209691
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