#puppet design

[angelpuns]

The Guy :) His wip name is corncob but it doesn't fit as well with this color palette :/ This is the puppet I am working on btw :)

[wizard-legs]

Had an idea yesterday for a scene teen muppet who always keeps his hands in his hoodie pocket, but when he takes them out it’s revealed he’s puppeted like the Swedish chef wherein he has human hands with the nails painted black wearing a bunch of gaudy rings… so you see my vision…

[sug01s3al]

I'm curious, you did say that you created puppet designs for the rest of the Spiritfarer cast correct? If so, 1) can we see them, and 2) will you ever revisit those designs one day to make them reality? Love the Gwen puppet by the way.

My sketchbook ended up being a total of 195 pages so I think I would explode my tumblr if I uploaded everything for every character plus the npc's 😅 But I can share a few of my favourites- granted the art is a year old at this point so don't judge too harshly I promise I can draw much better now ^u^

My design process basically went: pick a character -> make a moodboard -> sketch ideas & explanation -> puppet and puppeteer designs -> puppet schematics (this was only for a few of them that I had time to get to, I did get told off by my tutors for doing to much planning because I couldn't settle on who I wanted to actually build). Given the time and resources I'd love to revisit building one of them using what I learned but at the moment I am seeking theatre jobs (not too fabulous in my area sadly) so I only have my spare materials to work with at the moment and many sets of dice to make :'''). I still don't really know who I'd want to make though, even now they all seem so fun to make because not all of the puppets were in the style of Gwen's so each one poses a different challenge to tackle.

It goes without saying but spoilers for Spirit Farer below, ye have been warned~

I should also mention that with curriculum stuff I wasn't allowed to simply replicate the designs so you'll see quite a bit where I talk about changing and adapting the design for stage so if you wonder why its changed thats why :') (I'm aware Gwen doesn't really deviate much from her design but she was supposed to come with a fully sewn costume too which I sadly didn't have the time to make)

I was quite a big fan of the npc designs

Our boy Alex as imagined as a segmented puppet in the style of those wooden hand crank puppets. I think he'd be really easy to make in EVA I want to see if I can replicate the mechanism.

Hades was a particularly fun design to do too

I 100% am gonna reuse my design for Hades for an oc later down the line, that being said they already look a bit like a love child between my oc's Lazarus and Aster :''). I designed Hades to be a giant team puppet with the main actor (above design) pupeteering the head and voicing the character whilst the rest of the body was made up of actors who blended into the puppet whilst still having their own unique costumes. Hades is by far my biggest design, in scale and also with the amount of actors playing him because I really wanted to get that omnipotent, ethereal, imposing vibe down.

As for individual puppeteer designs :3 ->

I won't bore you with the character analysis pages for Jackie but he had a similar puppet design to Gwen.

(That is gold ink on the final page I promise you 😅)

Controversial opinion but I actually love Bruce and Mickey, I know they're the heels (well Bruce at least) but they're such a brilliantly layered character which is probably why his design got a lot more analysis then some. My thoughts are mostly there on my notes but I'll write it out so you don't have to squint at my awful handwriting. Bruce and Mickey are another really interesting character in that Mickey isn't really there at all (spoilers) as Mickey passed away in an accident before Bruce did so as Bruce takes focus in the game (speaking for both and doing the character interactions) I wanted him to be centre stage as the only puppeteer. Mickey's death was in a car accident that left him in a coma, if i remember correctly, Bruce blames himself for so I had this idea for the puppeteer (just like Bruce in game) to literally carry the Mickey puppet around the stage like a physical burden, a physical manifestation that the pain of carrying his brother's death weighs on him. And this idea of a struggle of grief, paired with Mickey being represented by a bull gave way to the idea for their puppeteers costume design being inspired by a bull fighter, a hybrid behind this teddy-boy greaser and bull fighter - of course the colours being big and bright and bold as their personalities.

Cw: Cancer. For Summer I wanted to use a lot of organic colours, shapes and textures within the puppet and costume design because of her love of nature and gardening (I still tear up everytime I play for my crops and she isn't there playing along). Summer, as mentioned in the game, was the girlfriend of Stella's Aunt Rose and inspired Stella's nursing career after witnessing her battle with cancer; in her minigame event you face off against a giant serpent that is 'infected' in a way, it has veins of ores running through it symbolic of the cancer running through her body. Which is why for her puppet design (a long with being able to conveniently hide how she moves) I wanted her puppet to be literally intertwined with her costume. The Klimpt inspiration for her scales I can't really tell you why I picked that other than Klimpt is one of my favourite artists and I thought the organic shapes and motifs in his work would suit her :').

Plans for Buck, my best friend.

Stanley I would say was the closest competition to Gwen and probably the one I would want to make the most if I was able to pick this back up. He was designed to be a smaller marionette style puppet so you could get those large, exaggerated, energetic movements from him that you do in game (for reference he does a lot of bouncing and jumping along with launching himself at Stella when he hugs her which is absolutely adorable). Like Buck, Stanley was planned to be a mixed material puppet, mostly cuddle fleece for body with different textures for the embellishments, like mushroom gills and his spot patterns. It was important to me to try and have an element of sympathetic movement in each design so the puppet was constantly moving in someway. Bonus picture of the costume design ideas for his puppeteer- if it wasn't feasible to have him as a separate puppet I liked the idea of Jacob (his pet beetle) being included in the design somehow which ended up being either as a hair pin or brooch :3.

I'll finish off with Stanley, I have designs for Daria, Astrid, Giovani, Alice and Atul but I'm not as happy with the old art so I'm not going to post it. The Beverly update hadn't been released at the time of this project so she never got a design :')

As for who I wouldn't make it would have to be Atul- for as much as I adore his character and love the design I drew for him having to have a giant Atul hanging around my house would make me sad, he makes me feel like this

That being said I do have the plush of him sat on my bed rn :')

I could keep yapping but this post is long enough lol

Also merry christmas everyone!!

[ethel-stuff]

two doodles from @inky-puddle's magma :D

fr dont know where i was going with the glam puppet doodle

[mistyjessart]

another character turnaround!!

this one’s a puppet design for a stop motion film i’m making!! she’s a representation of how people are more willing to save cute animals vs disregarding their environmental impact on things that aren’t pretty (like mosquitoes)

[divineyetinpain]

Officially opening up my commissions!

You can commission me to draw your character in any of the previous art styles I’ve posted!

Please be aware that I am a working adult, so commissions would probably take a month or two to finish(or a couple weeks at very least!) Prices are listed in the attached images but I’ll list them out here, too:

Lineart head/bust is 10$

Full body lineart is 15$

Flat color head is 15$

Flat color bust is 20$

Flat color full body is 25$

Fully rendered head is 20$

Rendered bust is 25$

Full body render is 30$

Commissions will have simple backgrounds with no added charges but if you need a more detailed background it will be around 3-5$ more depending on complexity

More than one character in a drawing is an added 5$ dollars per character actually, I decided on that just now(not 10!)

Sketches of characters will be cheapest! They will be clean sketches, of course and they will be 5-10$ depending on certain factors. If it’s more than one character there is opportunity for negotiation to not add the extra 5$ but ONLY for sketches. (These apply to puppet characters and character design as well.)

Emotes will be 10$ for flat color and 15$ for rendered ones.

If you want a full illustration with your characters (dialogue included and backgrounds) it will be 35-50$ depending on how many characters and how much detail is wanted. For Lineart of illustrations it will be 35$(By illustrations I mean the two examples I showed in the second image.)

I’m completely fine with drawing Gacha characters, minecraft characters, Demi-humans, and puppets(of course!) I’m on the fence on drawing roblox avatars and furries(I don’t feel qualified enough for those) And absolutely no NSFW. I don’t have anything against NSFW and actually doodle it personally but I would rather not open up commissions for it.

Oh! Also! All commissions will have the payment split in half, I feel most comfortable splitting the transactions into two payments, the first half when we agree on the concept of the commission and the second half once the comm is finished!

PM me if you’re interested!

[emanuelebertuccelli]

Punk pendant puppet

Made with FIMO

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[detective-marshmallow]

Made a new ref for my new persona

They go by Phalucard or Pen. They are a vampire/ frankenstein's monster puppet.

[grishamanimationstudios102]

Conceptual design of Jay Sherman from The Critic as a Muppet-style puppet, complete with hand rods to control the arms.

The Muppets were originated by Jim Henson and is property of Disney.

The Critic is property of Al Jean and Mike Reiss/Gracie Films/Sony Pictures Television

[blorbocantdomath]

i’m the fishmeister,, please expect a surplus of fish-posting as i ease into my theatre season

[matt-draws-stuff]

Meet falon! This is another character from my arg work in progress 👹👍I love him he so silly my friend helped me make him<3

[miss-whimsy-fella]

this is probably one of the funniest things i’ve ever made jsgsjskndk (my first few puppets as taylor swift albums, and i planned to make them in that order)

Janet as Taylor Swift (Debut) She was my first puppet :) 💙

Bellatrix as Fearless (The one of i’m making rn) 💛

Puppet Verison on Myself as Speak Now (I’ll make her next!) 💜

Hailey as Red and her bf Jacques as 1989 ��️ 🩵

Who knows who i’ll make next? :D 🤍

[sug01s3al]

I'm playing around with some potential puppet designs, keeping them to just one page is more manageable for me so I don't marry myself entirely to one idea and have room to explore other ideas without getting carried away. I'm thinking of drafting a design for a sphinx next ^^!

Puppet rambling under the cut <3

First little design experiment was using a Kelpie as inspiration ( a kelpie made of kelp, original I know lol). I normally start drawing at the bottom of a page and work up, for some reason, so you can see my original design and how it progresses from big bulky horse to spindly strange creature which I ended up liking a lot more. I liked the idea of it being a normal-ish horse from one side and next being this skeletal water rotted creature, equally I like the strange, spindly, more-cat-then-horse-like creature it ended up being so I think the end result would be trying to find a happy medium between the two. As for materials I was looking towards (surprising no one, my favourite puppet designer) Toby Olie who has a wonderful eye for fabric in his work.

First example is 'A Christmas Carol' and the second is 'Wolves in the walls' both of which he uses these wonderful scrappy fabrics to give such vibrant character to his puppets. In particular I liked the sinister quality given to the wolf puppets through the use of hemp material for their fur which is why I would use something similar, either that or well worn calico. Painted or stained a sickly sort of green.

For the hair I would use a rubber of some sort, best case would be something semi-transparent to give the illusion of seaweed. Partially for that seaweed effect but also for the sound, to echo the sickly, off-putting vibes im going for I would want something that would create a strange sound when it moves, something with almost a sticky, heavy quality to it harkening back to the mythos of Kelpies (the whole, you touch 'em you're stuck to 'em thing).

The design then graduated to more of a unicorn aesthetic, something that should be pure and good hearted, a lure to get people to come see and pet it. I favour the stylisation of Amalthea from the last unicorn, lanky but with a strange ethereal quality. And then it morphed in to a more cat like creature... somehow. I think I was more thinking of a trickster spirit for my Kelpie, something that looks kind and alluring to ensnare its prey :3

Part of my dissertation was on the line between costume and puppet so something I always try and include in my designs is this idea of disguising the pupeteer so the puppet take centre stage whilst also marrying their costume design into the puppet character they play. In this instance I was inspired, again, by the idea of the Kelpie attaching itself to its victim and dragging them in to drown them so I had designed the puppeteer to be one of the Kelpie's most recent victims.

[ignitelimelight]

My autistic enthusiasm and my gay audacity now has me constructing sock puppets (much more complicated than it sounds) for the show i'm in, and I'm in love with one of them. She's a blue fuzzy sock with bright red yarn hair, a flapping tongue, angry eyes with corduroy lids, and a big ol snout with snot dripping from it. When I whip her hair around it flops over one eye all emo-like. I adore her.

[chloesimaginationthings]

The day FNAF Charlie Emily was shut out..

[divineyetinpain]

What a weird find, indeed…