Making a stop motion felt puppet
Lately we've been practicing a different puppet technique– needle felting. It is much cheaper and faster than silicone casting so it's...
Making Animal toy puppets
Beside the silicone puppets we had to make some animal toy puppets. Most of them were made with a simple wire armature except for the big...
Puppet fabrication
Making eyes The eyes were made of 10 mm wooden beans. I filled the hole with Epoxy putty but not completely. I used a rounded head pin to...
Making Silicone puppets - Part 3 – legs
We used a very small scale (1:6) so we needed a very small armature. The smallest armature we found was almost not small enough, so I had...
Making Silicone puppets - Part 2 – hands
The hands were made in a similar method as the head, only without the master model and the silicone mold steps. The model First I made a...
Making Silicone puppets - Part 1 – The head
The puppets parts were made separately and joined together after casting. At first we thought of making a whole body casting but there...
