From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-verizon.net>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:19:02 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet Eyes


Ditto the thought.....Hobie! The dragon is superb.


Mary Horsley
mphorsley-AT-verizon.net



On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:48 AM, William Hennes wrote:

> 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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