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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:14:26 -0400
From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet Eyes


Thank you.  It has to be one of the funnest projects I ever got
involved with.   When I was approached and saw the money wasn't
great, I did it under the conditions that I keep the puppet when the
production was over.  It paid for it self in ways money never could.
It was so satisfying to create a huge puppet and then not be in the
show but get to watch the show. Then the many chapters that followed
each was so different than what I normally get to do.  It was very
gratifying.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Mary Horsley<mphorsley-AT-verizon.net> wrote:
> 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! =A0Hobey!
>> That dragon is soooo AWESOME! =A0I 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, =A0I used various sizes of iridescentmarbles as
>>> gobules in the scales of my Dragon Smaug. =A0They looked awesome. =A0His
>>> eyes are clear plastic christmas tree balls, but instead of painting
>>> them I carved foam eyes and painted them. =A0The foam paints
>>> beautifully. =A0I carved the iris out and put a light on a dimmer and
>>> covered the iris with red gel with diffusion material. =A0The plastic
>>> bulb gave the whole thing a smooth shiny lense. =A0The lid was a larger
>>> bulb cut in half. =A0It was controlled through the body with a 1/16"
>>> cable running through a rotor router cable housing. =A0His foam rubber
>>> scales and skin are coated with several coated of sculptRcoat. =A0It
>>> worked ok but on the reticulated foam it made the ears incredibly
>>> fragile. =A0It was better on the regular foam rubber, though somewhat
>>> brittle. =A0It gave the scales a reptilian shine. =A0The head and neck
>>> were quite heavy but they were on a counter weighted boom, so very
>>> easy to swing up and down and around. =A0The 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. =A0He hung in the atrium of the Center for puppetry arts for a
>>> year as well. =A0He was by far my most ambitious puppet. =A0He breaks
>>> down
>>> into a minivan for hauling. =A0He is beginning to come apart here and
>>> there and would require a lot of work to re-enlist into service. =A0But
>>> I can't let him go yet.
>>>
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>>> 2009/7/29 Mathieu René <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>:
>>>> =A0Last year I tried the heat shaping of fun foam onto wooden balls,
>>>> and
>>>> it
>>>> =A0worked well, providing one works fast, forces the wrinkles away
>>>> from
>>>> the
>>>> =A0main shape, and holds steady all around the base of the sphere. A
>>>> jig
>>>> would
>>>> =A0have helped.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> =A0I love using glass marbles, necklace beads made of semi-precious
>>>> stones,
>>>> =A0ping pong balls, other plastic balls, and sometimes I use plastic
>>>> grapes.
>>>>
>>>> =A0Wooden balls are more work because they usually need to be painted,
>>>> but hey,
>>>> =A0paint grabs onto them without any problem, so we get total control.
>>>>
>>>> =A0Sometimes all a creature needs are shiny, round-headed finishing
>>>> nails
>>>> to
>>>> =A0make the eyes.
>>>>
>>>> =A0Sometimes the absence of eyes is a good idea, if the eye sockets
>>>> are
>>>> well
>>>> =A0defined.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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