A puppet I just finished a few days ago

A puppet I just finished a few days ago

Say hi to Peer.
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8913/imag0002yl.jpg
Here's his armature (from Animationsupplies.net) with shrink-wrapped hands and epoxy putty
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7796/imag0005eux.jpg
Hands starting to be built up, I used a weird kind of medical tape to give his limbs thickness, and that's a kitchen sponge glued over his torso tongue
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/8915/imag0008f.jpg
midway through getting dressed and his head's been sculpted, I didn't realise how adhesive the miliput would be, so once it's hardened, I had to dig those wooden beads out in flakes with a scalpel, and put new ones in so that they could move
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/8595/imag0011l.jpg
Dressed a little further and head complete apart from eyebrows
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1081/dscf8241.jpg
Done! He's fixed to a CD case, which is why the bolts stick up out of his shoes. It'll also maybe help you guys get an idea of the size of him (10ish inches tall)

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The puppet looks great.  Did you sew the clothes or glue?

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Thank you!
They're glued together, not an ideal way to go, but it's worked out pretty well. I'm considering taking a step down in manliness and buying a sewing machine, though tongue

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I know what you mean.  I can’t sew to save my life, and I am concerned that if I sew the clothes together off the puppet, I will tear up or damage it putting them on.  I have a puppet that I need to put spandex on.  I am considering spray glue.  Do you think that will work?http://animateclay.com/components/com_agora/img/members/148/mini_head-on-armiture-mouth-open-2.jpg

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Nice puppet Marc! How is the armature holding up?

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gcavasos wrote:

I know what you mean.  I can’t sew to save my life, and I am concerned that if I sew the clothes together off the puppet, I will tear up or damage it putting them on.  I have a puppet that I need to put spandex on.  I am considering spray glue.  Do you think that will work?http://animateclay.com/components/com_agora/img/members/148/mini_head-on-armiture-mouth-open-2.jpg

The way I'd do that is I'd maybe smooth out the edges on the foam a bit more and than put a bunch of layers of liquid latex over that. To glue clothes together and on I use "Bostik All Purpose Adhesive", and I've read blogs where people use hot glue, but I'm not sure about spray glue, every time I've used spray glues for stuff, even sticking bits of paper together, it's been too weak and peeled off after a while. So you don't want your puppet undressing himself while you animate him, right? tongue
I guess it'd also be pretty hard to apply it accurately, too.

JesseOffy wrote:

Nice puppet Marc! How is the armature holding up?

Thank you! The armature's doing great so far, just playing with it, but I'm a while away from actually animating the thing just yet, so we'll see how that goes.
one concern is the wrists and fingers, which are wire, I'm not sure they'll last the whole length of the film so I might end up having to perform tiny surgery.

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