IAfter Mark Down, Keith was sent to us to help us out on the puppetry making. I've decided to try out using casting as I have never played with the medium before. Booked an appointment with Graham, and started using wet clay. Originally I thought I was going to do latex or silicon rubber for the head. But Graham told me that it'll take a week. Richard found a vaccum forming machine in Chelsea college of arts gathering dust, so they moved the machine to the school. The costume design students were using it, originally used for plastic, Graham asked me to try it out on my plastezote material, since puppet needs to be as light as possible. I said I wouldn't mind to try out.
Keith is extremely helpful, and all one to one to practical making.
first try out, didn't realise I have to use so much clay. It was pretty flat, and Graham help me form a better 3D shape.
The Vaccum Forming machine
First try, only take less than 5 min, and already a quite nice shape.
Showed it to Keith, he said it's a good form, but it is not prominent enough. So redo a deeper shape, here he is digging his finger in my monster's nose as I have no sculpt tools and we are in the portacabin.
He is looking better here, with Keith's help, and I took out his curls for the back, and decided to sew fleece later.
