Some process photos of the early stages of learning how to make a silicone head. With the armature inside (made from wire and miliput) the puppet will have a head with moveable mouth, eyebrows and ears. For my design I wanted to create a goblin type of character complete with big ears and little horns on the top of the head.
I re-shot the stop motion sequence adding in a magnet to keep the puppet from moving and allowing more movement in the tail.
The sequence is a little longer which gives more time to each action and makes for a smoother animation. The next step would be to look into adding in a background in After Effects.
Sculpting the head seemed the most daunting as it’s not something I’ve done before and will be the focal point of the puppet so I wanted to make sure it looked sufficiently eerie.
Head is made from foam and doll eyes.
`This was probably the part I enjoyed the most. Adding hair, hands and painting the body is when the character really comes together.
She’s obviously a little rough but with practise I’m sure I’ll get better.
The skeleton and base of the mermaid body was made up of wires wrapped in foam and latex. Lots of latex for the tail!
