Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion
Dressing the Puppet
A course by Adeena Grubb , Puppet Maker and Animation Director
About the video: Dressing the Puppet
Overview
“Time to play dress-up! In this lesson, we’ll look at costume options for puppets, and I will show you how I clothe my mini-me.”
In this video lesson Adeena Grubb addresses the topic: Dressing the Puppet, 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
“ Dressing the Puppet In this lesson, we’ll move on to a fun part of the process, dressing your puppet. Making miniature clothing is difficult and it is something that has taken me a few years to try and master. I'm still not there if I am honest, but there are many amazing resources online, especially doll clothing websites are always good. I encourage you to try and make your own clothing for your character. I doubt you’d want to make a mini-me for yourself. If you want to that is fine. If you want to make the exact clothes that I have made, I have included resources to do that, so you kn...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion
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Category
3D & Animation, Craft -
Areas
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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