Making Sprocket - Part 3
Here we go reader! The finishing touches of Sprocket!
I really like the look of this little guy. The fun fur is great, but every time he moves he winds up with fur in his mouth. It hides his face and makes it less effective. With Grizwald, I gave him a serious haircut on this face to make it less noticeable, but he still winds up with fur in his mouth. I had seen Adam great hair tutorial and wondered if it would work on a whole body. He uses glue like a hair gel on the puppet to hold the hair in place. I was extremely nervous coming at my puppet creation with glue after I spent hours getting him all ready. Adam insists that if it messes up you can just thin it with more water, but I was still nervous.
I definitely felt a little strange squirting glue on my hands and rubbing it on fur. It was like all my life I had been given the message never to ever do that. Next Adam will be telling me to play with matches or leave the stove on.
I also tried to do what he does in the tutorial and run a small comb through the hair. I don't know if it is just my comb, or my fur, but that straight up did not work. I smoothed it out the best I could and let him dry for a bit.
He looks a little "wind tunnel" chic, but I think it adds to his quirky charm.
I should add that when I was working with the fur I knew I was going to be trying this technique. Normally, I would be really conscious of the direction of the fur. It is important to match the direction so that your puppet doesn't look all sloppy. Since I knew I was going to be gluing the fur in a new direction anyway, I was less concerned. The eyes were actually left over from the last time I ran eyes in my silicone mold. I just used pink and black felt to make my lids.
I had to do a little trimming of the fur to give the eyes a good place to attach to. I probably should have done that before covering the whole puppet in glue, but it didn't occur to me and so I had to wait until he was totally dry before even attempting to put the last touches on him.
Finally he was dry and I could glue his eyes in place. Sprocket is now complete and ready to find a fun new home. He is smaller than most of my puppets and its a little tough for my giant hand to get into his mechanisms, but a smaller human will hopefully enjoy playing with Sprocket!
I am really happy with this design, and if I can get fun fur in a primary color, I might use this design as one of the rainbow puppets that I am currently working on. That will probably be a really short blog post.
Keep making cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
I really like the look of this little guy. The fun fur is great, but every time he moves he winds up with fur in his mouth. It hides his face and makes it less effective. With Grizwald, I gave him a serious haircut on this face to make it less noticeable, but he still winds up with fur in his mouth. I had seen Adam great hair tutorial and wondered if it would work on a whole body. He uses glue like a hair gel on the puppet to hold the hair in place. I was extremely nervous coming at my puppet creation with glue after I spent hours getting him all ready. Adam insists that if it messes up you can just thin it with more water, but I was still nervous.
I also tried to do what he does in the tutorial and run a small comb through the hair. I don't know if it is just my comb, or my fur, but that straight up did not work. I smoothed it out the best I could and let him dry for a bit.
He looks a little "wind tunnel" chic, but I think it adds to his quirky charm.
I should add that when I was working with the fur I knew I was going to be trying this technique. Normally, I would be really conscious of the direction of the fur. It is important to match the direction so that your puppet doesn't look all sloppy. Since I knew I was going to be gluing the fur in a new direction anyway, I was less concerned. The eyes were actually left over from the last time I ran eyes in my silicone mold. I just used pink and black felt to make my lids.
I had to do a little trimming of the fur to give the eyes a good place to attach to. I probably should have done that before covering the whole puppet in glue, but it didn't occur to me and so I had to wait until he was totally dry before even attempting to put the last touches on him.
Finally he was dry and I could glue his eyes in place. Sprocket is now complete and ready to find a fun new home. He is smaller than most of my puppets and its a little tough for my giant hand to get into his mechanisms, but a smaller human will hopefully enjoy playing with Sprocket!
I am really happy with this design, and if I can get fun fur in a primary color, I might use this design as one of the rainbow puppets that I am currently working on. That will probably be a really short blog post.
Keep making cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
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