puppet in progress
Friday, December 8th, 2006
I’ve started work on a puppet as part of an independent film idea. It has to be ready for some test shots next week… it might not end up looking its best, but I’ll at least start to get an idea for character possibilities.
This creature has a wire armature, removable screw-in rig points, poly-stuffing (the body is too squishy), with some thin foam around the midsection and nylons over the head and limbs. The nylons give the face a nice shape, but there still has to be another layer to give the character color/texture, and I’ll need to research options. Maybe if I had an airbrush I could paint it directly, but I’m not even sure if that would work. So I could cover it with another layer of stretchy fabric/fur instead, or paint it with a brush.
In all of these photos, the head looks rough still because the nylon has been quickly stretched over the polyfil temporarily.
I’m happy with the construction of the head. Instead of being made of a solid material like previous puppets, it has a sturdy but light aluminum wire frame.
