From: "William Hennes" <williamhennes-AT-charter.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:48:03 -0700
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet Eyes


Hobey!  Hobey!
That dragon is soooo AWESOME!  I am sitting here wrestling with artist envy 
right now.

Best,

William




> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:19:56 -0400
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> From: hobeyone-AT-gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet Eyes
>
> Speaking of marbles,  I used various sizes of iridescentmarbles as
> gobules in the scales of my Dragon Smaug.  They looked awesome.  His
> eyes are clear plastic christmas tree balls, but instead of painting
> them I carved foam eyes and painted them.  The foam paints
> beautifully.  I carved the iris out and put a light on a dimmer and
> covered the iris with red gel with diffusion material.  The plastic
> bulb gave the whole thing a smooth shiny lense.  The lid was a larger
> bulb cut in half.  It was controlled through the body with a 1/16"
> cable running through a rotor router cable housing.  His foam rubber
> scales and skin are coated with several coated of sculptRcoat.  It
> worked ok but on the reticulated foam it made the ears incredibly
> fragile.  It was better on the regular foam rubber, though somewhat
> brittle.  It gave the scales a reptilian shine.  The head and neck
> were quite heavy but they were on a counter weighted boom, so very
> easy to swing up and down and around.  The fire breathing was done
> with compressed air and spring loaded streams of dyed silk which were
> lit orange with a lamp on a dimmer and coordinated in the control.  He
> was used in The Hobbit stahge play at Univ. of NC in Asheville, then
> at the state theater of NC in Alladin (thats when they gave me the
> Hastings marionettes unkowingly to return the favor)He was then in
> Beowulf.  He hung in the atrium of the Center for puppetry arts for a
> year as well.  He was by far my most ambitious puppet.  He breaks down
> into a minivan for hauling.  He is beginning to come apart here and
> there and would require a lot of work to re-enlist into service.  But
> I can't let him go yet.
>
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> 2009/7/29 Mathieu René <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>:
> >   Last year I tried the heat shaping of fun foam onto wooden balls, and 
> > it
> >   worked well, providing one works fast, forces the wrinkles away from 
> > the
> >   main shape, and holds steady all around the base of the sphere. A jig 
> > would
> >   have helped.
> >
> >
> >   I love using glass marbles, necklace beads made of semi-precious 
> > stones,
> >   ping pong balls, other plastic balls, and sometimes I use plastic 
> > grapes.
> >
> >   Wooden balls are more work because they usually need to be painted, 
> > but hey,
> >   paint grabs onto them without any problem, so we get total control.
> >
> >   Sometimes all a creature needs are shiny, round-headed finishing nails 
> > to
> >   make the eyes.
> >
> >   Sometimes the absence of eyes is a good idea, if the eye sockets are 
> > well
> >   defined.
> >
>
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