I did an animation test for the moving eyebrows that I was planning on using on the puppets head. If anything I thought it made him look quite comedic which is not what I want in the slightest so I am going to scrap this idea. I will probably still give him eyebrows on the final head, just not ones that move!

I have mocked up really quickly a new marquette so I can visualise the new body shape, which was altered alongside the new storyboard, in 3D.

I then tested this under camera to make sure it worked well, and that the shape of the body wasn't difficult to read on screen. I am happy with this marquette.

I tested the two head that worked well under camera and lighting to see how they looked on screen.

Balsa Wood:

I thought they both worked well on screen. I do slightly prefer the balsa wood for a few reasons, the main one being that it is a really light material and doesn't affect the movement of the body armature. It is also really nice to work with and the definition of the face showed up a lot better than I thought it would. The sculpey, foam and latex head does look really visually nice, however it is really quite heavy and had an impact on the body armature. It was also shiney in places because of the latex and I want to try and avoid this.

What I want to try next is adding book pages to the balsa wood, like I did to the foam and see if this adds the nice textural quality that the foam head has.