Hi all
I have been fascinated by all types of puppets for a long time. I recently found on Netflix that Henson has made a remake of the Dark Crystal, which some of you may remember was initially made on the early 80's. Now not a critic of the film but I loved the puppets that were constructed to reshoot this story.
This inspired me to have a go at sculpting and animating a largeish scale puppet of a character loosely based on the characters in this production. Here is my basic head built on an armature made with a 3D pen.
I wanted to try to make the eyes move and the mouth so they could be operated as a hand puppet. Finally the eyes proved too much of a challenge for my limited skills but I did get the mouth to move.
Still along way to go with a real wig to construct, painting obviously, and then a glove puppet style costume. I must say I am having great fun with this and I hope that eventually my granddaughter will get a kick out of playing with it.
John
I have been fascinated by all types of puppets for a long time. I recently found on Netflix that Henson has made a remake of the Dark Crystal, which some of you may remember was initially made on the early 80's. Now not a critic of the film but I loved the puppets that were constructed to reshoot this story.
This inspired me to have a go at sculpting and animating a largeish scale puppet of a character loosely based on the characters in this production. Here is my basic head built on an armature made with a 3D pen.
I wanted to try to make the eyes move and the mouth so they could be operated as a hand puppet. Finally the eyes proved too much of a challenge for my limited skills but I did get the mouth to move.
Still along way to go with a real wig to construct, painting obviously, and then a glove puppet style costume. I must say I am having great fun with this and I hope that eventually my granddaughter will get a kick out of playing with it.
John
