Introduction to Puppet Making for Stop Motion
Head Details
A course by Adeena Grubb , Puppet Maker and Animation Director
About the video: Head Details
Overview
“I'm almost done. All there is left to add to my puppet is the face and the hair. This is my favourite part! For the hair, I will use felt, and beads for the eyes. The mouth will be done with milliput.”
In this video lesson Adeena Grubb addresses the topic: Head Details, 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
“ Head Details In this lesson, we'll do my favourite part, which is adding hair and face details to the puppet. I'll start with the hair first of all. I'm using this felt that I tried to match a bit to my own hair colour and I'll show you how to do the two front sections because I'll put some wires into the head so that it's animatable and poseable and it will look pretty cool hopefully. If you're not sure how long to cut things like I am not right now, then measure to your scale drawing. You can trim it as well, it's better to go a bit longer. I'll cut a few chunks. I'll take my aluminium ...”
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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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