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This is just the most beautiful cat puppet I've ever seen! WOW! Truly Amazing!
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OMG he is sooooo cute!!! I love his little paws! You're from Australia, are you a Natalie Tran fan?
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Location
Location, Location;
Australia.
Relationship to Puppetry
It's a sordid 'on-again, off-again' kind of affair.
Nobody gets hurt and nothing illegal takes place, so it's all good. And really, it's nobody's business what I do in the privacy of my own bedroom with meters and meters of fake fur ping pong balls and hot glue.
What First Got Me Interested in Puppetry
I liked seeing them on tv as a little kid. It was like cartoons in live action. Crazy man, crazy. So yeah, Sesame street, Muppet Show and Alf..my teddy bear, as a kid, was an alf stuffed toy. Me and my brother would make little videos with hand puppets, then I started making my own. Who knows why we're attracted to these funny little characters.
My Puppetry (or Puppet) Hero
It's gotta be Jim Henson. Natch.
But I am constantly inspired by good puppetry and well crafted puppets, whether they be aesthetically appealing or well crafted internals. Yeah, I totally nerdgasm over interesting mechanisms.
If I Were a Puppet, I'd Be...
a total sellout. I'd make elmo look like a "left-wing, commie pinko".
More About Me:
Contrary to my online persona, I am actually quite a shy and delicate little snowflake in real life.
Website
http://practice-cactus.livejournal.com/
2nd Website
http://au.youtube.com/user/Gerald5000

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practicecactus

Eye Blink mechanism part 2.

It's all glued in and workin excellently.

Posted on August 5, 2009 at 3:55pm — 1 Comment

practicecactus

Eye Blink mechanism

I'm a gigantic hypocrite, so instead of finishing my moving eyeblink mech, I shelved it and started a blink mech.
It was supposed to be a simple reboot of my previous attempt for my Gerald puppet [as blogged previously here], a sorta Gerald version 2.0, and well, shit got complicated. I sculpted a lovely head out of a solid piece of foam that was gonna be a monkey head, but carved a simpler rounded head out of it an… Continue

Posted on July 25, 2009 at 11:30am —

practicecactus

Eye Mech on hold.

I have a time consuming paying art gig for a magazine so I'm putting off the eye mech for now.

In experimenting I realised I hadn't noticed the two levers for the side to side eye movment need to move in opposite directions. Doy!! The way I had blissfully unaware thought about it would have resulted in the eyes crossing and moving away from each other. Easily fixed though, in an instant I came up with a little lever action I hope to get a start on soon. It'll be a parrallel push-pull movement.… Continue

Posted on March 1, 2009 at 12:12pm —

practicecactus

Moving Eye Mechanism

Once again, I am posting my eye mech progress because I don't believe in keeping an idea secret. Besides, these things have been done a thousand times before and closely guarding your mechanisms is, I think, silly.
I know there's several ways of doing an animatronic moving eye, but I'm using scratch built parts because I am a poor bugger and it'd be hard for me to find parts anyway, and to be honest, on some level I like making things hard for myself.
After many a wasted page in my sketch book,… Continue

Posted on February 13, 2009 at 2:10am —

practicecactus

Blink Mech

Thought I'd post this here seeing as I only had it posted on a forum.

I'm not precious about ideas I have for puppetry mechanisms so I show this to anyone who is curios as to how I did my Gerald blink.


The blinking puppet I made was only my second so it's very Unprofessional, but it does the job and it's pretty comfortable.

Not having known everyone makes their heads from sheet foam, I made mine with blocks of foam and built it up that way, so It would take some modifying to get this into a… Continue

Posted on January 19, 2009 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

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