I have started to make the two final armatures for the puppets that I will use in the film. I decided on two puppets being enough as they don't have to do any excessive movements or wild positions, but if one decides to break then I do have a spare!
Wire, bones, K&S and tie-downs all in place:
Against the scale drawing:
(I decided to make the hands slightly bigger for better screen presence and for ease of holding the books.)
With skinned hands:
Wadding applied to the joints:
Hey presto! Time to start skinning...
I have started making protypes following the last scale drawings that I posted up here. I have decided to make two, each out of different thickness wire so I can see which better suits my puppet.
Here are some images of the making of the armatures:
| | Above: twisting the wire
Left: applying milliput to the chest and pelvis
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| | Left: measuring out the ploymorph bones
Above: measuring out the K&S in two different sizes
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| | Left: the wire hand armature
Above: applying milliput to the palms
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| Attaching the bones to the wire
Lightweight head core and eyebrow armature
Above: making the tie-downs in the feet
Right: the finished product
| Attaching K&S to the wrists Attaching wrist bones which contain slot for hands to attach
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Left armature is made out of 1.2 mm wire, the right is 0.9mm.
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