PukkaPukka
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Hey all!
I just wanted to asK a question that has been nagging at me for some time. I recently finished my first puppet, Wotsit (you may or may not be familiar with him), and I have given up on creating really good arm rods for one reason or another, and just gone ahead and stitched the hands to the arms and that's the end of it. My question is, as I'm working on my next puppet (this one's for a telly programme here - Wotsit was kind of a 'thing,' just for fun), Polar (a white fur seal), I wanted to know both, a good way of designing an arm-rod structure, and implementing it properly. I would also like to know what materials everyone has used. I've personally tried coat hanger wire (good, but not malleable enough, btw, it was the THICK stuff, not the thin wire), and I wanted to know if any of you here had any good ideas...I could try to form the hands from a wireframe, and fit the arm wire onto the wrist, but I'm totally clueless here. Please help me! I'm not necessarily to the point of doing the arms yet, but I'd like some input before I get there...Thanks a lot!
>Adam
I just wanted to asK a question that has been nagging at me for some time. I recently finished my first puppet, Wotsit (you may or may not be familiar with him), and I have given up on creating really good arm rods for one reason or another, and just gone ahead and stitched the hands to the arms and that's the end of it. My question is, as I'm working on my next puppet (this one's for a telly programme here - Wotsit was kind of a 'thing,' just for fun), Polar (a white fur seal), I wanted to know both, a good way of designing an arm-rod structure, and implementing it properly. I would also like to know what materials everyone has used. I've personally tried coat hanger wire (good, but not malleable enough, btw, it was the THICK stuff, not the thin wire), and I wanted to know if any of you here had any good ideas...I could try to form the hands from a wireframe, and fit the arm wire onto the wrist, but I'm totally clueless here. Please help me! I'm not necessarily to the point of doing the arms yet, but I'd like some input before I get there...Thanks a lot!
>Adam