Zeke Body Fabrication

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Laying out the components on a scale diagram to get the size right.

Adding fastenings and the solid sculpey parts to hold it all together, making sure to all suitable room for screws and movable joints:

After baking, bulking out the body parts with foam, leaving solid areas for moving and posing the puppet (something firm to grip onto when animating):

Thin latex bandage to smooth ou the underlying foam and give a bit more shape to the body and its limbs:


Neck fastening screw hole (top) and rig mount (bottom), and the body with its first layer of latex on.

  



About Richard Whillock

A beardy bloke who is pleased by the production of puppets and the set-up of stop-motion stuffs. A love for the scruffy, the textured and the original.

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