Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by BoxGhost on Sep 15, 2009
Hah hah hah! Yeah. The shirt is actually getting done tonight. My husband is going to sew it.

I royally messed up the eyeballs, too... they'll have to be sanded. Hope I can salvage them, otherwise I'm in ALOT of trouble.
Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by BoxGhost on Sep 15, 2009
Okay. I apologize for my lack of picture posting. In the past month I had to have a cat put to sleep who was very sick, got a new cat who is also very sick (he's getting better), and had to have an emergency extraction of a wisdom tooth. I am feeling better now and back to puppet building.

Here is a red fraggle that I am working on for a friend, and then I will begin my wembley which everyone here has so graciously helped me with (the red pictures are the newest ones) :

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y84/haleybrooks/Fraggle/

I had a question about red, though. I need to do her pigtails, and I haven't a clue how to make them. Does anyone have any ideas? If you look at pictures of her, you can see that there is a straight piece supporting the tufts on the top. I have no idea to do it. Any insight, as always, would be greatly appreciated!

Sorry again, guys! I'm back on track now!

ps - i know she's missing an eye. We had a ... situation. The eye should be attached tomorrow.
Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by miguel on Sep 22, 2009
Hi, guys. Sorry to post it late(Kind of busy to take pics). But, this is my fraggle's foam head:

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Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by BoxGhost on Sep 22, 2009
Nice job, miguel! That looks great! I'm still working on getting the shape right on mine. I work on it here and there, but it's been a hectic month to say the least. I'll be interested in seeing your progress.
Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by miguel on Sep 23, 2009
Thanks! Still working in other project! But as soon as I finish them, I start working this one to finish it(Have to figure out the fabric pattern for the head).
Any suggestion for this foam head pattern, or help for the fabric head pattern, are welcome

Thanks again guys!
Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by BoxGhost on Sep 23, 2009
Well, you can always have a look at my head  pattern and try to modify it. I think I still have it here:
http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y84/haleybrooks/Fraggle/

I'm currently trying to work with a smaller one, but you can try to modify it if you like.

The way I do it, I take pictures of the character and then take it into adobe illustrator and draw over the character to try to get the shape right. This is probably a really weird way to do it, but I'm a graphic designer and don't know a better way. :P

Keep working at it, Miguel, it looks really great!
Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by StiqPuppet Productions on Sep 23, 2009
Nice work so far Miguel....you have come such a long way since you first introduced yourself on this site....I can't wait to see the end result.

Daryl H
Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by miguel on Sep 23, 2009
Thanks Daryl. Actually, this is just thanks to you guys, for so much advise, teaching(More now that you teaching on-line), recommendations, etc.

Hoping you can keep advising me and teach me as well
Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by CoOKie on Jan 20, 2010
hey this thread needs to be revived lol. hows everyones projects coming along?
Re: A Few Questions from a Beginner Puppet Making Person Posted by BoxGhost on Jan 21, 2010
I finished my Red Fraggle that I was working on ... I'm about halfway through my wembley. Here's pics of my Red:
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I have the body/head/tail of wembley done, I am just waiting for my husband to help attach the eyes. I'll post that when I get another chance to take some pictures. Things have been crazy, though.

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