This week's task was to build an armature for a puppet. I must say that this was my favourite assignment so far. On monday Ben spoke about armature constuction, explained do's and don't's. Basically, he covered pretty much everything. I've decided to make something as simple as possible.
Reference:
Second step - tools! It was actually a bit hard to decide on them since I was not sure what kind of armature I'm going to build. So I only got the necessary things: wire 1,5 mm (of course), thin wire (for the hands), miliput, PVA ( I have no idea what for) and foam.
Also a superb video reference I found on youtube. I've used it as an example and started moving on from it.
Process:
Firstsly, I started to twist the wire to make the armature stable.
I've made the separate parts: hands (one long wire), torso ( a short one) and agian a long one for the legs. Then attached them together. I didn't use any glue, because the wire was perfectly holding the constuction.
Attached the head ( umm..) and cut off the unnecessary bits in its legs. Twisted in the shape of feet. I was surprised that the constuction was steady.
Now time for the hands! I didn't find the thing wire the same colour as the tick..oh well. I've started bending it in the same shape as hands.
Twisted fingers. Ouch!
Wraped the hand again with wire and attached to the armature.
Finished Armature:
Yeah! I like how the arms have turned out.
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