Stop motion puppet armature

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So in these next series of posts I want to show an alternative way you can fabricate a puppet without having to go the route of the labor/t...

Animator Charles F. Hamper of Monterey Motion Graphics published a cool tutorial on how he makes his own adjustable stop-motion puppet armature parts from hardware-store raw materials including stock brass, threaded rod, and lamp parts. The images are small, but they're big enough to see what's going on.

Today I’m going to share my process for making poseable art doll hands with… get this, paper! Well, more accurately, I use medical paper tape to make the hands for my mixed-media art dolls in a technique that’s sort of half-assed paper mache. This techniques suitable not only for art dolls, but al

Been working on my own stop motion puppet.

The steps I took in creating the pants for this puppet are very similar to the way I made the shirt, but I'll go through each step just so ...

I've been busy having a new baby boy, fixing up my house, and working! Fortunately I have a neat stop-motion project to show you, and some...

Creation of stop motion puppet for the '11 second club'. Puppet is constructed of latex, resin and polymer. All clothes are hand stitched and hair was glued meticulously into place.

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Before I start making the puppets for each character I draw a 1:1 scale plan of the armature. It's important to design the armature to ensure that the character will have the correct proportions and so that it'll be strong enough the support the puppet. Below are my plans for the Mail Man (Roy) and the Actress (Elle). In each drawing I included the outline shape so I can see how the armature fits inside. I decided to make the puppets from a mix of Aluminium wire and Ball and socket joints…

Nausicaa's armature wrapped in yarn so that it has a sewable base

OK, Here's part two of my Mould Making Marathon. In my previous post I made two part moulds to cast shoes for the Mail Man and hands for the Theatre Usher. In this post I'm moulding parts for 'Elle' the Actress. Earlier I started to sculpt the body shapes onto the wire armature in grey Plastiline. You can see that post HERE. Below is the finished sculpt ready to be moulded. The body breaks up into five sections. 2 legs, 2 arms and the chest section. All these will be cast in flexible…