Beaks...

[staceyrebecca]

Beaks are entirely confusing to me. I've tried them on other birds and failed miserably. Ok so I thought I'd figured it out. Turns out I hadn't. I know I'm missing something obvious.

 

[staceyrebecca]

Nevermind! got it.

 

[aaronmojo]

Can you share with me how you got it? I tried building a bird about a year ago and finally threw it away in frustration. I could not get the beak to work. Now I'm having the same problem with a Triceratops.

 

[staceyrebecca]

Oh surely I can share. Basically I had a shell of a body in the usual way of me making a puppet. I don't build a foam head and cover it, I've mostly made my puppets similarly to the glorified sock puppet. That's how I made his head. I did construct a body out of foam (although I wish the gusset I'd used was wider, and I should have put darts into the body to round it off a bit, but I was in a hurry.)

Once I made the general head bit, I cut out a triangle for the upper beak & slapped it on the upper lip, curving it a bit. I made a smaller triangle and slapped it on the lower lip. I covered it in yellow fleece & was stuck...

Ok here's the ugly shameful part, but it will give you a better idea of what I did. Here's a differen't angle.

Like I said, at this point I was stuck . I had thought that all I needed to do was to cover it in fleece, but convinced myself that the answer couldn't be that easy. I e-mailed Noah Ginex (Puppeteer in Chicago) earlier in the week, & he not only let me know what to do, but sent photos of how to do it as well.

For the 2nd chicken, I did the lining of the mouth first. I think a triceratops could work the same way.


Oh I should also mention that Noah stayed on a live-chat while I was working so I could ask him questions. I think he could go into business doing that.

 

[aaronmojo]

I will give that a shot, thanks... I think maybe I screwed up by trying to make the beak and the cheeks sort of the same thing. Maybe I'll post a drawing so other people can chime in and give me advice.

 

[staceyrebecca]

I'd been trying in the past to build the beak into the pattern & that messed me up a lot when I did the finished puppet. I know it can be done..just not by me...YET.

 

[Luke]

I have to say Stacey Rebecca, that is one mighty fine looking chicken you have there!

 

[Lab Rat]

I recently made a turkey puppet for CBBC here is a link to a clip of it being used~http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AzCVFfA1hQ4

 

[CBPuppets]

This can be Very useful. thanks for the Info.