From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:29:13 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Sympathetic Arm system?


Hi Kathy, thanks for your input.

I think I understand the one about the string and the hinge.
The one about the sticks is not focusing in my mind at the moment.
Could you draw something quick and send it, please?

For more details, my puppet will have extra long rods on pivots inside both 
hands (standard non-removable method), and when needed, the puppeteer will 
pick up the other arm, leaving the main one limp.  Which is why I'd like 
some kind of system to keep the unoperated arm more or less alive.

My customers are half-worried that they will have to hire a second puppeteer 
for the arms. They might be swayed, I'll send them pics and videos of my 
last TV puppet (a team effort), operated by two puppeteers.
Just in case they decide against a second puppeteer, I want to be ready with 
a solution.

I'm sketching like mad these days, to have some convincing concept art for 
the TV channel that commisionned the show. Without their ok, the project 
will remain on hold.














You however made me think of a strange yet perhaps feasible system:
I could link both rods with a third one, the ends of which will be flexible 
but stable rubber hinges or tubes.
That way, perhaps both arms can be manipulated at once, and anytime I want 
one to be higher, I just swivel my wrist. It will depend on how much free 
movement is allowed by this contraption and the weight of each puppet arm. 
Not too much swaying I hope.









----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katy Lloyd" <idlekaty-AT-googlemail.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Sympathetic Arm system?


Your description is a bit vague but I think i know what you mean. Well
obviously you could just have a string running down the puppeteered arm,
through the body of the puppet, and attached to a hinge on the Un-
puppeteered arm, which cause the arm to rock or swing in a simple movement.
Although the movements would be very basic - you could possibly manage an
up/down motion. Wouldn't it just be easer to have another stick attached to
it, which you could pick up when you wanted to move that arm as well? Or
make a glove in which both the sticks are glued onto it, one stick glued to
your fingers, one glued to the thumb..?

Katy

-- 
http://katy.idlecreations.com/



On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Mathieu René <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca> wrote:

> I migth need to build a system where the unpuppeteered arm of a mouth and
> rod puppet would react from some input coming from the other arm.
> Preferably, not a truly symetrical movement...
>
> Is there any online information you'd know about that explains how such a
> thing works?
> I've only one clue so far: it's supposed to work from a string...
> Also, is there a way to turn the effect on and off?
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