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Turning Heads

Friday, April 2, 2010

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One of the challenges we faced during preproduction was figuring out how best to create movings heads for our characters. We needed them to turn left and right in tiny increments and to also look up and down. The solution we came up with worked like a charm.

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Casting Your Puppets

Saturday, November 21, 2009

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Allow me to introduce you to the glorious world of Silicone. The material we used to surround the wire armatures and give our puppets body. So where do I start? Shore strength? Viscosity? Cure time? Ratios? It's a whole other world you'll need to learn from scratch.

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