New Jaguar Puppet

[yetiman]

Hi, everyone. I began working on this jaguar puppet for the Project Puppet contest over the summer, but my best friend got married the weekend it was due, so I wasn't able to finish it then.

However, he has finally been completed. My mom called him 'Virgil', so that's his new name. He's a vegetarian jaguar, too, so he gets mad at me when I eat meat. Nature is weird like that.

I used glass taxidermy eyes (for lions, actually) to give him a more realistic look. I think it worked out pretty well. I'm in the midst of making a fox, too, and I'm probably going to do the same thing with it.

Anyway--I'd love to hear what you think of him!

http://animuppetry.blogspot.com/2009/10/meet-virgil.html

 

[puppetsmith]

Beautiful! Beautiful! Did I say Beautiful? Beautiful!

 

[Onath]

Wow! Great looking puppet. I love the attention to detail.

 

[mrhogg]

He looks fantastic!

 

[Teenager's]

Yea! That looks Great! He has a really nice body shape, and it's impressive that you colored him with paint and sharpies. Nice job!

 

[zns]

One of the most lifelike animal creations I've seen in a good long time. Well done my friend.

 

[yetiman]

Thanks, everyone, for the kind words. For anyone else looking at making an animal puppet, PlastiDip works really well for the interesting sheen that animals' lips have (see here for example). I used it on Virgil and am using it on a fox puppet that I'm making, too. I also used it around his eyes.

Thanks again!

 

[spcglider]

That's cool you mention Plasti-Dip. We're making use of it here in our shop as a paint surface on top of latex castings for a mask project.

I also used it just recently on top of some of those foam "Hulk Hands" to turn them yellow for a client. They were using them for a trade show application as the "whacker" for a "whack a mole" type game. The originals were just painted with yellow paint, which, of course, immediately just flaked off and damaged the vinyl skin. So we got a new pair and layed Plasti-Dip on thick with the spray can version. Worked like a charm.

-Gordon

OOps! Forgot to say: COOL puppet! Very nice work.

 

[scarylarrywolf]

Terrific work man! I love the variation in spot size. Well done!