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Kitty paws. [Nov. 12th, 2009|02:49 pm]


Kitty hands get their own post cause they look pretty cute.
 

Pads are painted fabric, glued onto white felt, which gave me something to stitch to the white fur.
Now when I make hands, I make a little template for size I want the overall hand to be, then work my way in for the foam. As just a foam hand it looked tiny, but now covered in fur it's the perfect size in relation to the head. I'm pleased with how they turned out. pain in the arse working so small, it's time consuming but worth it in the end, I guess.
I like how paw-like they look, but I can adjust it to look more like a hand.
 
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little update on the cat puppet. [Nov. 11th, 2009|09:55 am]
[mood | okay]
[music |Death Proof soundtrack]


Mocked up to check overall look. This is gonna be his height with legs slightly bent.
Arms aren't gonna be attached to the body, they're just gonna sit loose in the fur so it moves easier. Might trim down the shoulder part of the arm.
Need to repaint the nose. Needs to be pinker. The whisker are probly gonna be redundant but I wanted to do them. When I think 'cat', I think triangular ears, triangular nose, and whiskers, first.
The scar for the missing eye probly isn't terribly noticable there. I trapped the fur in the seam for it. Something I learned not to do on my first puppet.



Both feet and hands have wire armatures inside for posability. I think they'll look more kitty-like covered in fur.
Gonna be hard to do the little pinks pads for the palms and fingertips, being so small, but gonna it a shot.
I have decided to make the legs removable. Gonna use some press studs. Reading up on whether to do it or not and only read recommendations to make them detachable. Nobody really argued to make them permanant.. The legs are gonna be Digitigrade.

I'm out of foam, so the legs and tail are on hold for now. I try to put off the whole fur sewing thing as much as possible cause it's my least favourite part.
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:3 [Nov. 4th, 2009|11:05 am]
Yo Internet, how's it hangin?
I haven't been drawing much and by "much" I mean "at all" but I have been slowly been chipping away at this cat puppet which you've probly already looked at by now. I was gonna keep it a little bit secrety and then do the big reveal but am posting these so you got somethin to look at. I'll draw more hot nekkid bitchez to make it up to you, I promiss.
I was also gonna keep it a secret he's gonna have an eyepatch but there ya go. I'm letting the cat out of the bag here, so to speak.
What's that ad campaign that ran the guy with the eyepatch? Y'know the guy they copied for Harvey Birdman; Attorney at law. I'm gonna use my little powerful magnets to hold the eyepatch in place cause the ellastic string I got will probly shift around too much. I'm gonna stich the eye area up so it's looks like a scar.

I need to come up with a name for him eventually. Somethin like 'Jimmy Boots'. He's gonna be a sorta alley cat. I'm thinkin 'Tommy the cat' by Primus,  Top Cat if he was a back alley fighter, general shifty character that hangs around at the docks, and 'annoying junkie that asks for a dollar or two at the bus station and bums a cigarette as he leaves'.



It's all just mocked up to check general placement. The inside of the ear is gonna be white fur. Still a long way off.
Been making quick little paper towel template-patterned pieces and making sure the piece is the right way with the direction of the fur before cutting it out. Didn't have to worry about fur direction with the long red stuff.

I was worried he'd look like a fox. Luckily triangular ears and nose are universally "kitty".



The head was a tight little foam sculpt I literally had lying around. The jaw was long gone, so I added one, padded out jowels and sculpted the front to be a little more cat-like.
The nose was a black teddy bear eye I carved up with a hot blade combining my love of fire, knives and sculpting. The teeth were gonna be claws for a monster plushie I was gonna make, and the eye is one of the knobby bits on the bottom of a plastic bottle I loosened up with heat and just kinda shaped into a cat eye. At one point I considered taxidermy eyes but meh, hand made looks more plushie.

I think I'll make legs for this one cause he's gonna be small and would look better sitting on things instead of behind. I'm gonna try to make a tail for him but if I can't make it sit up and curl like I want cause of the weight of it, I'll make him tail-less.

With each puppet now my confidence grows. I can generally picture the end product and it's not terribly hard work, just painstakingly slow and tedious. My sewing still sucks though.
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Fan Art For Chester5000 [Oct. 14th, 2009|07:21 pm]
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Tawny Frogmouth Awareness. [Oct. 10th, 2009|08:47 am]

That's all really.

 
In other news, I finally saw 'Monsters Versus Aliens' and although small in scope [there's like what, 6 scenes in the whole thing] and it's way too short, there were some decent jokes, fun romp, great music, punchy and moves along nicely. A decent Dreamworks movie? Well suck me dry and call me dusty.
Luckily there weren't many quiet, slow paced scenes, which are way too animated. It's like every characters in a dreamworks movie has parkinsons. But anyway, it's good enough to distract me from how much I dislike CG movies. Wish I had seen it in 3D though.
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sketch dump. [Oct. 2nd, 2009|05:11 am]
OMG, posting on a regular basis? Psych! Just some stuff from my now filled sketchbook. Need a new one. Poo..


Seriously, is Han Solo the only character who didn't get some stupid interwoven backstory in the new movies?
I feel bad for Boba Fett, ruined with such a stupid backstory, in the new movies. He went from 'Quiet, Cool, Badass character' to 'a New Zealander'. Then again R2-D2 could fly. Was it ever explained in any of them why he later couldn't?

More of this kinda thing..... )
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(no subject) [Sep. 10th, 2009|01:53 am]
[mood | Numb..]
[music |Primus]



Patiently waiting for death.
 
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last few sketches from my full sketchbook [Aug. 25th, 2009|03:48 am]
[mood | sweepy]
[music |Peeping Tom]


I don't know where I saw this girl.

Couple more.. )
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Gerald 2 [Aug. 18th, 2009|12:52 pm]
Well, after much slow progress, he's finally completed. Very minor things to do here and there, but he's essentially finished.
I still have enough fake fur to make another one. It's crappy fur though. I need to invest in the more expensive furs for my next endeavor.



More pics, of course. )
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puppet eye blink [Aug. 6th, 2009|02:41 am]

All glued in and pretty much good to go for the fur.
 
I wanna use felt dots for pupils like real muppets so I gotta track some down. Left enough gap between the eyelid and ping pong ball to allow it. If need be I can use electrical tape like this.
I keep forgetting how small his head is. Having small hands means that's one advantage I can take, making puppets as small and cute as I can. It'll look slightly bigger than it actually is because of the fur anyway though.
So glad I made the proper handgrips for it and covered it with leather. Very comfy. The ring for the blink is a little bit awkward to use to fully close, but I won't be using it much for that. I just like having the option. For just slight expression changes it works fine.

I'll probly get impatient and cover it with fur next to see how the head will look, but I should probly make the hands, arms and body next.
Still not sure what to do for the hands. I don't want to cover them with fur cause all my work making the fingers won't be seen and they'll just look like furry mittens but can't afford or justify buying antron fleece just for that little an area. I need something cheap and small that will hide the seam around the fingers. Suggestions appreciated from you Crafties.

Already thinking about future puppets. I wanna make a cat next. Sculpt the head out of foam to get the features right, and maybe give him a patch too, cause I like cats with eye patches for some reason. Promissed myself I wouldn't dick around with mechanisms again just yet, but there's my full eye movement mechanism that's needing to be finished and put to use in something.
A cat would look great with ear twitches... Hmmm.

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