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Stop motion Animator, Model Maker, 2D Animator
Carys Carter
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armature
Due to work experience and loss of time i had to make a few changes to the plan of this puppet. The main change is that i was plaining on...

Carys Carter
May 11, 20181 min read
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Final Puppet
He's Finally finished

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May 11, 20181 min read
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Hat and Hair
For the boys hat i asked a friend to knit a bobble hat for me to place on his head. This was made two time as i had the dimensions wrong...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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head
Next to paint he head i sprayed it with some matt paint. This did not turn out how i wanted. the over all colour was fine but for some...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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Final hands and casting
When opening my mold it sadly broke leaving my figures stuck inside. However it should still work and allow me to cast some hand. Before...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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sculpting
With the wire made i sculpted an arm and hand over the wire in super sculpie. And attached it to my puppet to make sure the size was ok....

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May 11, 20181 min read
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Making Arms
Next i build the boys arms using heat shrink covered wire and k&s. this was all stuck together with two part epoxy. I made sure to make...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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Making hands
to make my hands i twisted 2 strands of 0.5mm aluminum wire with 2 strands of 0.5mm cotton covered copper wire around a small washer. I...

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Cutting boys arms
When my armature arrived i realized that the arms where a little to so i decided to shorten one of the bars. This will allow me to attach...

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Boy eyes
With the shoes drying and casting i decided to start making the boys eyes. To do this i covered the head with clingfilm and sculpted some...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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shoe
I then removed the shoes from the mold and cut off the excess silicone. I then repeated this process again so i had two shoes. The image...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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Silicone shoe
For the little boys feet i also chose to use silicone as i believe this will give the nicest finish. For this process i followed exactly...

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Props for cat
For my props i had a mixture of both 2D and 3D. For the 2D props Eirian helped me out and drew a flower vaise in two key frames, this...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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Final cat
yay!!!Cat is finished!!

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May 11, 20181 min read
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whiskers
Next i drilled 6 holes into the face and place some cotton covered copper wire in the holes. The reason i chose to use this wire is that...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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Painting face, adding whiskers
Finally everything is coming together. With the fur added and the legs cast. So next i painted the face and added fur to the ears. so far...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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Cat mouth
In my original plan my cat puppet was meant to have replacement faces, so i sculpted the nose an moth area and decided to make a mold....

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May 11, 20181 min read
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Making eyes
To create my eye balls i found a bead the size i needed. However this bead was purl when i needed it to be white. To fix this i decided...

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