Subject: PUPT: Re: giant puppets with carpet underlay foam Date: Wed, 27 Jan 99 09:06:31 -0000 From: Dan Vie <foolish-AT-smartt.com> Joe Dunfee wrote: >Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 >From: Joe Dunfee <joe-AT-dunfee.com> >Subject: Re: PUPT: Re: giant puppet methods > >>>>We need to construct a big puppet to be used in a long march / >>>demonstration. I have seen puppets of this type on video of New >>>>Orleans & Rio Festivals. They stand over 10' high & are operated by >>>walking puppeteers from long poles attached to puppets hands feet & head. > >>>>Thomas C. Rubino > > I reciently was involved in making just these kinds of puppets for a first >night celebration here in Miami. While I have seen a video on doing this >with paper mache, I very quickly decided that I didn't want to spend the >time paper mache requires. > I decided to use sheet foam rubber as the construction material, which >would be supported with inside pipes. I used carpet padding foam, and I had >found some yellow colored stuff, which could be re-colored with spray paint >fairly easily. It is glued with contact cement and is farily quick to >assemble. If you haven't worked with this material, another local puppeteer >should be able to show you. Hi Joe - re: construction with sheet foam rubber: it's my ambition to get so good at visualizing the planes of the face, that I will be able to grab a few sheets of scrap carpet underlay and some contact glue, and within a few hours, create a fully recognizable (and completely squashable) political caricature of anybody needed that day. Topical characters are often needed at short notice. This model would then be surfaced and weatherproofed, perhaps with a latex 'skin'. This would fulfill my ideal concerns of being virtually free, quick, light and completely portable. In experimenting I've found it difficult to make specific features of a caricature keep their shape without using an internal armature. Could the features be "drawn" in stiff wire, as a base for modeling the foam over? This has worked well for making hands etc. dan vancouver foolish-AT-smartt.com --- Personal replies to: Dan Vie <foolish-AT-smartt.com> --- List replies to: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- Admin commands to: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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