Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion
Scale Drawing and Fabric Swatches
A course by Adeena Grubb , Puppet Maker and Animation Director
About the video: Scale Drawing and Fabric Swatches
Overview
“In this lesson, I will sketch my puppet's armature and choose the fabrics I will use. For the armature, I will divide the body into pieces and figure out where the wire will go.”
In this video lesson Adeena Grubb addresses the topic: Scale Drawing and Fabric Swatches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion. Discover the charming world of stop-motion puppet design and learn to build your own characters, from the initial design to the finished figurine.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we'll sketch our puppet's armature and choose fabrics. So I have a drawing that I'm now happy with after a few attempts. And now I'm going to draw over my drawing to plan out the armature pieces. So we're going to have our head piece, torso piece and hips piece. So it will be three balsa wood pieces And I need to plan out where the wire is going to go and how long it needs to be and just bits like that. So the armature is our puppet skeleton, and this will give us a good base to build everything else onto. So I'm going to start with the torso piece. and we're going to go acr...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion
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Art Toys, Arts & Crafts, Stop Motion
Adeena Grubb
A course by Adeena Grubb
Adeena Grubb is a puppet maker and animation director from London. She’s been passionate about all things miniature since she was a child, building accessories for her toys from materials she found in the Scottish highlands where she grew up. She later went on to study a motion graphics degree and put both her passion and studies into practice to create puppets. After watching the character she created for a Skittles advert come to life, she knew it was a specialty she wanted to pursue full-time.
Since then, Adeena has created content for Samsung, the BBC, Channel 4, Burger King, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Childline, Metcalfes Popcorn, Quickbooks, Puffin, and Mars. She also shares her creations with over 50K followers on Instagram.
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