First, let me say that I'm sorry I have not updated this character in a while. It has gotten quite busy around here. It has finally sunk in that this build may be the toughest build with what I have planned (creating his costume myself). As you can see, I have gotten quite far on the progress of the head. The gigantic nose was sculpted from foam the usual way (box cutter and scissors). In order to get a pattern for the hair, I simply stuck painters tape on the back of the puppet head and drew out the shape I wanted. I basically did what I did to pull a pattern off of the clay form from the dinosaur build. Hopefully I will soon complete the head (and the body) and will be able to move on to the costume.
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Work on the Professor character has started! This puppet is named Professor Tinwhistle, and is meant to be an old college Professor who is a little on the eccentric side. As you can see, I have already fabricated the head from my usual .5" foam. The black side of the head (1st pic) is where I am creating the fabric pattern for his skin. The material I use for puppet skin is called Antron Fleece, but is more commonly known as Muppet Fleece.
Well the dinosaur build has been fun, but it is coming to a close! I know I haven't posted in a while, but I didn't want to give too much away before the reveal.
After the head was finished and skinned, I worked on the body. The body needed to have a flat belly (thanks Allison!) and bulbous back with bony protrusions in order to look more like an Ankylosaurus. The bony armor on the back was made from 1" white foam and then sculpted with scissors to make it appear like bone. The color was achieved by layering different colors of spray paint (same as the horns on the head). I also tried a new way of creating a tongue for this build. I wanted a 3D tongue, not a flat, craft-foam tongue, so I cut the tongue from 1" inch white foam and then sculpted it with scissors and a Dremel. I tried dying it, but it ended up just soaking up the colored water with no actual color adhesion. So, I went back to my old standby: spray paint. The spray paint ended up working perfectly and still allowed the tongue to be "squishy." |
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