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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.
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- http://au.youtube.com/user/Gerald5000
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Eye Blink mechanism part 2.
Posted on August 5, 2009 at 3:55pm — 1 Comment
Eye Blink mechanism
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 —
Eye Mech on hold.
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 —
Moving Eye Mechanism
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 —
Blink Mech
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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