So, the newest problem that I have had to conquer is making my puppet poseable...Originally, I thought I could put a very fine wire or pipe cleaner on the inside of the material, along with the stuffing, however, this didn't actually seem possible. This was because the arms and legs had to be sewn in shut before the body could be assembled and so it wouldn't be possible to get them in there. My nan and myself tried to think of many methods and the best one that we found was actually applying the pipe cleaners on the outside of the material and then coating this with another layer of material. My main concern with this was that it could actually make the puppet too 'chunky' because my material is actually quite thick and dense looking. However, we thought we'd try it anyway and if it didn't work out then we could just unstitch it and try something else (not really what we wanted to be doing seeing as it would add further to the construction time).
We tried it out and it was actually very successful.
Here are a few images of how we did it:
As you can see, it worked out well and meant that the puppet could be moved fairly easily. It was important for it to maintain a position because I am wanting to use stop motion and so it wouldn't be successful if it couldn't do this.
I also bought a doll's stand which enables the puppet to stand-alone and it will be easily concealable in the filming stage. The extra layer of material also made me realise how 'skinny' the puppet would have been without it and therefore would've been less likely/able to maintain a position.
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