#puppet making

[starlingpuppets]

Aliens might be my favorite type of character to make, hehe

[poodlepincushion]

Second round of custom button puppets!

[virulentvoidarts]

UPDATE VIDEO AS WELL RAAAAH

[alonzoarts]

So, one year ago, after watching a let’s play of Super Spamton 64, I had the great idea to make a marionette of Spamton. (I had never made a marionette before and I knew next to nothing about Spamton). I worked on him feverishly for 3 weeks while watching several lore videos and discovering the sweepstakes. I learned so much and it was awesome. He’s got magnetic pupils, interchangeable hands, and removable glasses!

I used @decamarks’ Spamton model for reference. I also chronicled the whole process on Instagram. (Maybe I’ll turn it into a video someday) I think I could make a way better one now honestly!

[clownmiser]

shhh, he is "eeping"........... : - )

[waytiretua]

Just realized I hadn't yet posted this guy on here, everyone say hello to replica Boober!

I'm really happy with how this build turned out, though I am hoping to one day come back to him and tweak some things for accuracy. Going forward I’ll be balancing out the replicas with more original concept puppets, that way I can practice going through the design process from start to finish. I had a really wonderful time bringing him with me to both dragoncon and the fraggles forever panel at the center for puppetry arts in Atlanta!

Somewhat related to all that, I’d like to note that while I’ll still be posting here every once in a while, I’m shifting my focus towards my instagram, just due to the fact that I’ve really come to love the puppetry community on there.

Con+Process Pics ↓

[number44newseries864962]

SO I hear y'all like clowns :)

This is Darcy! She's a little poison dart frog clown made from Sculpey clay, fabric, and wire.

[pjberribear]

Here's some images I forgot to post last month.

Updates on Wally's outfit:

Silly goober images!:

Reference image:

Have best day today! <3

[bern00sworld]

*THE SUNDAE FIEND🍦🍨*

GURGLE IS ALIVE!!! After so long and delay she is finally here and ready to devour every ice cream in her way, it took so long to made but she's finally here🤩🤩🤩🍦🍦🍦😊🩷🩷🩷

(SURVIVAL STREET IS MADE BY: james asmus )

Decided to make her look like in my design like before the events of Survival Street where they still have their show, i think this could be close enough 😊😉🍨🍦🍨🍨🍦🍨🍦🍨🍦🍨🍨 🍨🍦🍨🍦

[cluepoke]

Finally managed to get some proper pictures of meldrop! Being her manager is exhausting he's such a drama dragon

[starlingpuppets]

honestly losing it over this photo of the new Bat Boys I just finished on sunday. they're here to jump you, but like in the cutest way possible.

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mugged by muppets

[poodlepincushion]

LOOK! It’s part 3 of custom button puppets!

[virulentvoidarts]

If anyone in the PA area is attending Zenkaikon this year, you’ll find me and Spamton wandering or attending panels! Feel free to chat, I’ll be trying my best to stay in character as the goober when mask is on!

[entelodontidae]

Teeny mascot puppet!! Based on Norm’s Tiny Teeny and also his regular mascot costume

More pictures under the cut!

[cozyforest]

Making of the Juppet

As promised in my first post here is all the progress photos from when I made my juppet!! There are some jumps since I made him around a month before con and some parts were quite rushed!!

In all honesty finding and creating patterns was one of the most time-consuming parts, I had a specific vision in mind so I spent quite a while looking through patterns online. This is the body pattern and while I can't find the website I originally used for the head pattern this one is pretty much the same!

Most puppet tutorials use contact cement, and I can understand why after using hotglue for this section. It was so annoying and I ended up with a few burns asdfhsj

Now here's one of the big jumps, I don't have any photos from making the body or putting the 'skin' on :(( but I basically took the foam patterns and added seam allowance then glued the edges on the inside of the foam (which you can kinda see in the second photo below!)

Then it was onto the arms! Which,,,,, I really struggled with,,,, my original plan was to sew them on my machine but,, it warped them so badly I had to redo them.

Next step was to connect the body with the neck which is what is shown in the first photo below, I just hotglued the neck fabric to the bottom of the body. Attaching the arms was much easier, just hand sewing the open side onto the body!

While I do have photos of the making of the shirt it isn't anything special and I don't want to have too many photos here asfdhsd

The eyes are just cardboard circles wrapped with fabric and the nose was made out of foam clay then also wrapped in fabric, then just attached to the face with hotglue!

Now the picture of the right looks like a finished juppet right? Wrong! I didn't have time to finish putting on all his hair (which is just yarn glued on) and he had massive bald spots. I had gone to con that day with 3 hours of sleep and a lot of monster in my system ashdfs

Now here is a beautiful finished Juppet with his amazing hair!

(POV: you're my roomie trying to get ready during con only to see this)