Alright folks, some progress!, to begin from the start; the drawing is drawn in the actual scale of the puppet on a A3 paper, so the puppet will stand roughly 13" high and are somewhere between 1/4 and 1/5 scale.
The armature are made from aluminium wire which are bendable in order to animate the puppet, they are wired together to get a stronger armature. there are bolts in her feet, sealed with epoxy putty, in order to drill holes in the set and fix the feet to the ground with screws. there is also a square profile in her back, its fixed by the epoxy above her legs (but its not visible from the front), this will allow me to fix a thinner profile into her back, which are set on a rig. the rig will allow jump/running animations.
the head are made using a head sculpt ive made for a recent project, and is cast in resin. the face is originally changeable for animating expressions but since Black Rock Shooter will be expressionless i decided to use epoxy to fill in the lines and have the face glued on, to make a more smooth and refined finish, there are also three thin wires inserted and wired together into the head, in total six wires, 3 per twintail, which is one short and one long, this in order to animate the hair. Hair are added from cutting sections from a black wig and glued on. head is not fully finished yet as it needs some final touch-ups.
Body sculpture are in the progress, this will be moulded so that i can cast on latex skin on the puppet. in the past i made the skin in fabric and brushed on latex, it looked good but was not as smooth as a cast coould be, so this is a experiment to try how to improve the finish to the puppets, so stay tuned! the pics of the sculpt will be up soon!
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