Ammending problems

After making my first few attempts of the puppet and realizing its strengths and weakness’s I was able to create a new puppet that was rid of the problems that the first ones encountered these included; being too small and trying to get all of the mouth shapes out of one plastercine mouth. I also noticed that by stopping the neck at the shoulders and starting the torso in another colour wasn’t working as they tended to split apart whilst moving the neck I will overcome this by making a small layer of skin attached to the neck all over the torso and then applying the t-shirt and jacket over the top of that to stop the splitting. I overcame the problem of the splitting the mouth during talking by researching some of the great stop-motion movies to see how they overcame this, animators in movies like the nightmare before christmas used a process called replacement animation which uses an array of head shapes/mouth shapes for the characters, Jack had over 300 head shapes throughout the entire film. I decided that this is the way I should go and proceeded to chop the jaw off my newly made bigger puppet (which you can see in the video) . The new puppet employed some of the same techniques from the first with things like the armature being created from two balls of newspaper and duct tape and slightly thicker wire forming the spine as well as things like the eyelids for the blinks as these worked well on the first puppets.