From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-magma.ca>
To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Body Puppet Making/Foot attachm'ts
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 00:06:24 -0400


>Or again something flat (Ice cream container lids, corflute, ply wood,
>aluminium) and screw/glue it flat to the bottom of the puppets shoes and 
>the
>puppeteers shoes...would give some flexibility to the movement of the feet
>BUT. . . . BUT. . . I must say that you are going to lose a LOT of
>articulation and natural...ness? of movement at the sake of correcting a
>slight if not insignificant posture anomaly found in placing the puppeteers
>feet directly below or in the puppets feet.......> Daniel

Hi Daniel and all!

I have finished my foot attachement test. It works great, with a few little 
adjustements left to do.

However, I see what you mean by loss of natural-ness. He walks great, but it 
is a sligthly exagerated walk, or slowed down, or speeded up. Very 
interesting. I do prefer it immensly over the forward tilt (which I had to 
try, and did, and hated the feeling of the puppet about to fall on its 
face.)

I have to modify my own walk skightly, and be careful not to scrub the floor 
with the puppet's feet. The distance between my feet and the puppet's feet 
might be the problem. I will try to reduce the distance some more(that's why 
nothing is permently glued yet). Long live Duct Tape!

I wonder how the puppeteers for films do it so naturally. Maybe they 
re-learn to walk, or they use a more sophisticated system, perhaps with 
another articulation.. (maybe I'm just assuming they do, to complicate 
things)  Or maybe their puppet feet hover a bit above the floor, to reduce 
scraping and impact sound (my pink hard foam is lightweight, but has a good 
resonance). I will probably add a layer of fun foam underneath to reduce 
that effect.

Was the person talking about making foam feet actually thinking soft foam?



Mathieu René Créaturiste
Marionnettes, Masques, Etcetera...
Puppets, Masks, Etcetera...
creaturiste-AT-magma.ca
www.creaturiste.com
(514) 274-8027 

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