Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:36:38 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet Spine


Music Wire at the hobby shop is spring wire (K & S engineering
products) which has memory and can flex and return to its original
form.  In the latest P of A Journal Lisa Sturz and I wrote about the
late John Payne.  His Dinosaur marionettes had the most amazing spines
created with individual steel vertebra which flex and act like a
spine.

www.ksmetals.com/

www.paynestudios.com/home.htm

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Brad Shur <mr_utamaro-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Depending on how it needs to move, a spring may work well for this. I once worked on a life-sized dog with a garage door spring for a spine, and she made some very graceful organic arcs when she leapt, and snapped back into neutral when we let go.
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> B. Shur
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>> From: creaturiste-AT-primus.ca
>> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
>> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:23:54 -0500
>> Subject: [Puptcrit] Puppet Spine
>>
>> One thing I rarely see in puppet design is the inclusion of a functionning
>> spine.
>> Either we rely on gravity and balance (marionettes), or on the puppeteer's
>> control of the various body parts (tabletop and a few other types), or we
>> just make a stiff torso.
>>
>> What's amazing is that we don't really need a spine, a lot of the time!
>>
>>
>> A possible upcoming contract (not confirmed) would have me build a
>> realistic-moving humanoid puppet, which might benefit from a spine to make
>> the puppet's back spring back into position. I can certainly do it without,
>> and it would move very well, but why not try a notch higher, just for fun?
>> I've been thinking of using a thick strip of higher density polyfoam
>> combined with elastics, or a link of big wooden beads over an elastic,  or
>> even a lenght of some kind of memory wire, or a plastic bar that springs
>> back to shape.
>>
>> I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to find memory-wire type things around
>> here.
>> Every time I check leftover pallets in shipping areas, they either have the
>> cheap palstic straps, or the non-memory metal straps.
>> I wouldn't evne know how to attach a spine made of it to my puppet.
>> Any pointers?
>>
>> I'm curious about any type of puppet spine you would know how to build.
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