The start of the next full body puppet, this time I'll be adding a few things, such as the brass tubing and epoxy resin, so we'll see how that goes.




Some quick progress snaps of a little experiment on posable lips and eyelids, Don Kenn's monsters inspired. More to come.

I thought I'd give this brass tubing a go, instead of the usual Sculpey bones I'm used to as I've had a couple of failures on Zeke's legs. Trouble is, I could only find round brass tubing in stores, so I'll see what I can do with it for now until the online square tubing I've ordered turns up in the week (I hope). Also managed to find an ancient box of epoxy resin, so will be using that too, I'm hoping that using better quality components will give a bit more durability to my puppets.
I wanted to try two things with the tubing, fist just gluing them on with the Araldite, which worked a charm as expected, but then also just pinching the ends tightly around the twisted aluminium wire. This also worked pretty well and hasn't come loose let, so could be a good back up tactic to remember. I'll stick with the epoxy resin from now on though.

 

I realised I needed a base to do a few practice animations on, so I built myself a proper tie down base this Sunday morning. An investment in a decent electric jigsaw and drill/screwdriver seems to be a wise bit of spending of my student loan. A few scraps of wood from some Ikea packaging, a bit of PVA and nails later, and I have a good serviceable base:


I won't be pre-drilling holes in the top and instead will just be drilling them as needed for the tie downs. As you can see, the tie downs are working great, and some really nifty poses can be held. However the puppet's legs seem to be doing a bit of a wobbler which I'll need to look into.




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