JoshPrime Makes Stuff

Hey readers, This is the last post in my Danny Sexbang adventure! There isn't a whole lot left to do except his nose and those red wrist straps. This has been such a fun project and I hope you all have enjoyed seeing it come together. I am excited to finish him up and get to work on Arin - the other half of the Game Grumps duo. Then maybe I can do little puppet shows of their conversations on grumps! While I love making puppets, puppeteer isn't a skill I claim to have. Last time I tried, I realized how quickly my arm gets tired holding it up like that. I suppose I could learn ventriloquism since that lets me sit even with my puppet. Learning a new skill solely to avoid physical exertion does seem a little lazy even for me though. I am going to start with the wrist straps. I needed it to be something that could be removable. I might not want his cape on him all the time. I didn't want to use ribbon like the real cape. I could have, but it felt less in line with the sty...

Hey readers! Happy 2018! Hope your resolution is to make more things! Today I am talking about making the clothes for my Danny puppet. There are a ton of people who cosplay as Danny Sexbang on the internet, so I needed to do this costume justice. The look is a red Star of David on a white circle on a blue spandex outfit. The puppet version is made of a children's XS shirt and some felt. I used a pot lid as my template for the white, and then made my Star of David pattern by cutting out two equilateral triangles and taping them on top of each other. I needed to figure out how I was going to attach all of this to the shirt. I was thinking about my yarn hair and my thick wooden dowel arm supports, and I thought that doing a chunky black yarn stitch around the outside would really bring together the style I was going for.  I started with an obsession that every stitch be exactly even, but then quickly realized that was 1. not realistic and 2. counter to the style I was going f...

Merry Christmas readers! I know you have been patiently waiting to read all about how I made Danny Sexbang's puppet body. It probably was like a cloud over all of your Christmas cheer. Well, never fear - here it is! I have tried several different body making techniques. The red creature I made a few years ago has my favorite body type. I free-handed a bowling pin shape in foam and it came out really awesome. For people, I usually just do a loop of foam and rely on the clothes to give the body shape. Like most of the work on this puppet, I was learning a ton from Adam. His puppet body video is phenomenal and I used his template to make Danny's body. When it comes time to make Arin, I will tweak it a little since I want them to have different body shapes, but for now, this template was great. Body creation was pretty easy once I had the template. I cut out the foam and sewed the fabric - pretty much following the tutorial. pictured: impatience I used the same techniq...

Hey readers, It's time to talk about Danny's hair. I thought that Danny was frequently shown in Game Grumps Animated videos with hair covering his eyes. As I looked through, the only one I could find was the puppet video - the inspiration for all of this puppet making. I might eventually make him smaller eyes, but with the hair I am making, you won't ever really see them. I have some pretty cool toys coming through Amazon that are going to step my puppet making way up. Once again, thanks go out to Adam for his super amazing tutorials and supply lists. I just started a paragraph by saying I would talk about Danny's hair, and instead talked about eyes. Clearly I am the best blogger who ever lived. My ability to stay focused in matched only by that squirrel loving dog from that movie. I just did some googling, that movie is Up. I know that there are a lot of great options for hair out there for puppets. I have done hair with feathers, fur, and even the tubing you us...

Hey Readers, Doesn't look like much yet - but it will be great! So I ran into a lot of issues with the pumpkin head from my last blog. The frustration got to me and I needed to step away from the project to think. Mostly I think about who thought to make cotton candy for the first time, but that isn't really relevant to this post. I was watching YouTube, a common activity when trying to get my mind off of cotton candy creation. I found this awesome GameGrumps animated video where the animator made the two grumps into cartoon puppets. Inspiration struck! I could make them into REAL puppets. I closed the video with a new spring in my step and a distraction from the simply baffling decision to spin sugar in a giant wheel and serve it on paper. I have mentioned that I really wanted to try my new mouthplate idea that I learned from watching Adam's tutorial. This was the first successful implementation of that idea and this is easily the most professional and polished...