After much procrastination I finally finished v2 of my Kermit replica! Made with F3 fleece from Weird Kid Store (Which they dyed for me). As with my V1 Kermit, I primarily used ECL's threads on the Replica Prop Forums as guidance for how to handle my build, though I did do a few things differently (Like adding a lining to the head of my Kermit, and using foam dowels to stuff his arms and legs).

This mini-me commission for a local drag king has finally been finished and his commissioner just came and picked him up!!! I'm so happy to finally have him finished so I can move on to taking forever on my own PERSONAL projects again LOL

My pride and joy... my fucked up son... he has every disease... here's the tale of his immaculate conception

Here’s that big project I’ve been talking about, this is Thimble, my test fan-fraggle! A couple months ago I challenged myself to create the best puppet I could using mostly just the materials I could get from regular craftstores.

MY FIRST PUPPET BUILD!!! done as a gift for my bestie @bug4bee !!!

He’s such a sweet little boy.

some progress photos!! He’s made very lovingly from minky, and a tinsely mohairish “fur”

Very proud… weh

in 2021, during covid times and university, I joined a team to do work on two puppets for a stop motion film.

Vladislav, the baby, was to be a massive undertaking to make something that fit Mikhail's brief. He was insistent from the beginning the puppet have long eyes which would pose a problem because most stop motion eye techniques where for balls and round looking.

Using my knowledge of medieval windows and archers, I made the eyeballs massive and the lids long.

The face plates where all held on with magnets and all hand sculpted to give a lovely effect. When we filmed, the eyes had an incredible range of motion which allowed the animator a clean range which was nice. That said one of the sockets and eyeballs had a micron of a millimetre difference which meant it span loosely. This led to me becoming an on-set eyeball wrangler.

The body of the puppet was a ball and socket armature provided by Malvern Armatures with padding using dish sponges and foam packaging. We had three puppets in the end. Two for regular animation and a third for 'stunts'. The stunt baby was permanently attached to a rigging point.