The Magician!
Stuart made the puppet for the magician, this is the armature of the puppet below...
As you can see it is made from twisted wire with milliput moulded over it where the bones would being the arms and legs. It was recommended that we use milliput instead of metal tubing because the character is so slender. If we used tubing we wouldn't be able to put foam over it as then the character wouldn't be so thin, but with milliput we could keep it thin and give the limbs shape so that he looks more humanly when we put the clothes on him. However we did use the tubing for his hips and shoulder and his head is made from soft wood with milliput moulded onto it for his nose and chin.
This is him with his head attached, the foam on his body and the metal plates on his feet. We glued him together with araldite. And then finally the clothes were put on...
...and his face and hands. The clothes were made and stitched on by Stuart and his sister and Stuart created his face from plasticine and white wooden round balls for eyes with fluffy material stuck on his head for hair.
We had a lot of problems for this character, so some reason the glue didn't set the first time we glued it together, I personally think that its because when the glue was mixed up there was more resin than there was hardener and so therefore it didn't harden. Then the next time it did harden but after a while when we stood him up the upper half of him kept flopping back over. So we had to wind some more wire around the joints to strengthen it. Then once we were sure was ok and put the clothes on the arm fell off and the hip joints were still giving way. By the time we felt that we had finally sorted it out and started filming we still had trouble with him standing still but it wasn't as major as before.
Overall we were all really pleased with the outcome of the puppet.
The Little Girl
Again Stuart takes credit for making this puppet too.. luckily we didn't have half the problems with this one as the last.
Again we used milliput and twisted wire...
And then the metal plates on the feet, foam on the body and hair and finally the soft wood for the head.
Unfortunately I haven't got a picture on her finished and completed, but to finish her Stuart and his sister again made the clothes and stitched them on her and Stuart moulded her head and face from Plasticine and stuck some blonde material on the big foam hair bits. And then finally Bas made her eyes from paper and stuck them on.
Again we were all very pleased with the final out come of this puppet.
The Rabbits
This time I was in charge of making the rabbits..well I made both of the armatures and sculpted the evil rabbits body out of foam and Bas did the good rabbit. Unfortunately I don't have any images of these either...They were made the same way as the other 2 puppets except for these I used tubing instead of milliput. It was difficult to work out how the armature was going to be and hardly anyone could work it out. But I looked at a rabbits skeleton and managed to come up with one that would work well when animating.
Overall the outcome of the rabbit were ok but wasn't as good as they could have been...we were very pressed for time by the time it came to making the rabbits and so the last stage of covering them and making them look like the images from the character designs were a bit rushed.
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