Meet Frank, my banjo player paper puppet. We created this puppet for a TV3 segment at ECIB. The main theme was creating an extremely lightweight puppet, capable to be held down using needles even on extreme poses. For my character, I wanted to create a simple body shape and stick to raw materials, in this case cardboard newspaper and crepe paper.
The rig, consisting of only aluminium wire, is basically glued to the body with a glue gun.
Here's a work in progress of a set I'm building. It's a corridor of a madhouse. I've used forced perspective and a progressive deterioration into madness as a general concept.
The door to madness is the main element of the set. Based off of steampunk architecture, I really wanted to create contrast with the "door to loony land".
So recently I discovered a really interesting crafting technique called felting. And seeing that it was close to Christmas, I decided to try it out and make a little gift for my mom.
So basically I wanted to create a miniature replica of our awesome french bulldog Kloe.
Started off with a basic structure.
Wrapped the structure with some cotton.
I cut off the excess cotton and tried to get the shape I needed
Started to felt the main body.
She's got a jacket on!
Adding the pink tummy and details.
Making the ears.
Felt in the little ears.
Adding the trademark spots.
Meet mini Kloe
Here's an example of a simple armature that can be done very quickly and is great for beginners who want to directly jump to animation tests. All you need is two wine corks, some animation wire, glue and basic tools.
This armature is only to have fun animating. You can't build a character over it but you can give it a lot of attitude!
