The rebuild I've wanted to do for two years...

ashkent

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When I began making puppets, long before i decided to set up Old Enough To Know Better Puppets and even think of building the custom puppets i have over the last year, all i wanted was to make a large replica of one particular muppet character. That was this guy...



He was said to be amazing by a lot of people but as a puppet he has major flaws. His eyes are slightly misplaced, his eyelids are like flaps rather than a "round the eyeball" eyelid, his mouth is heavy cardboard, the wire for his eye mechanism is easily bent, and above all else he is just too **** big. So he has been sitting as a poser for most of the time with just a couple of runouts as a working puppet for very short stints due to the strain he puts on the hand.

So, finally, in the middle of the other orders I'm working on, I have started rebuilding Animal as he should be. The skull is more or less complete, with the looser jaw, bags under correctly placed eyes and a working eyebrow mechanism made of steel wire that can only be bent with pliers.

Here are the first pictures of his "naked" head. I'm expecting to make a start on feathering him later this week. I'll update the pictures along the way as the major stages are completed.



 

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So finally managed to get a little time with this in between other jobs and more to the point found the time to update a few photos. So here are the latest pictures of the new Animal replica of mine.









And here are the latest parts waiting to be attached.



More updates coming soon.
 

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Well...somehow time flew by and before i knew it i had a finished puppet!
So here is the Animal puppet i have wanted to make for the last two years since i started seriously building puppets as a sideline job. Have a look at his pictures below. Hope you like him - just in time for the SEQUEL SEQUEL. Hopefully i will have a video of him later tonight.











 

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Going rather well!Although,I would like it better if you made another Dave Goelz character...(I'm kidding about the Dave Goelz thing,,but that would be wonderful)
 

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Well...somehow time flew by and before i knew it i had a finished puppet!
So here is the Animal puppet i have wanted to make for the last two years since i started seriously building puppets as a sideline job. Have a look at his pictures below. Hope you like him - just in time for the SEQUEL SEQUEL. Hopefully i will have a video of him later tonight.











It's a great Animal! What did you use for the eyeballs?
 
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