New 3d-printed puppet-heads - test video

[Tioh]

This video features some of the puppet-heads skeletons that I made with my 3d-printer. They were printed in PLA on a Makerbot 1 clone at 0.2mm layer hight. Each head took 6-8hours to print.

All the animatronic-parts - like movable eyelids and ears will be controlled with bowden-cables:

I made the 3d-models - one of the heads in the video and the model for the movable eyes/eyelids/bowden-cable-grip are on thingiverse.
http://www.thingiverse.com/Tioh/designs
I did not include the lower jaw in the 3d-model because It’s faster to make one with an aluminium-profile when to print it - you can see one lower jaw at the end of the video. The other Materials I used to build these heads are Felt, Plaast (from http://www.plaast.de/) and Wonderflex.

The 3d-model was build like this:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y144/Tioh/lw_modelling_zps3ef5f8bd.gif

I do not sell them - they were made for the Eurofurence Pawpet-Show.
The puppets will be covered with fake fur.

 

[crazy chris]

Very very VERY cool!!

cc

 

[rowlfy662]

That is amazing stuff great work.

 

[Tioh]

This 3d-model is now on thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:284415
You can download and print it for Non-Commercial purposes. You do not need your own 3d-printer - there are hackspaces in many cities. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ - many of those have a 3d-printer.