New Puppet Character...Mogul... Posted by Gimpdiggity on Feb 24, 2011
Mogul comes from another planet...actually, he comes from Ganymede, one of the large moons around Jupiter. I don't know how he got here. He claims to have been brought by another group of aliens and left here to spy on us. He's not a very good spy, though. I caught him trying to eat a stick in the tree in my backyard one day. I don't know why he was trying to eat sticks. He actually is like our very own monkeys here on earth in that he really likes bananas. Because of this, I kind of think of him as a space monkey. Bananas and popcorn are his two favorite foods. He would do just about anything for them.
Mogul enjoys climbing, as do most other monkeys. He has a pretty serious problem. You know the saying "What goes up must come down?" That's not necessarily the case with Mogul. He has a tendency to climb so high into a tree that he can't get down. I'm constantly having to get my 30 foot extension ladder out to climb up into a tree and retrieve him. I feel bad punishing him for it, though, because he gets so scared when he's stuck up there. He just shakes and shivers until we're all the way back down on the ground. I keep hoping that one day he'll be able to get down on his own, but I'm not holding my breath.
Not sure why the thumbnail won't show the larger image now...here's a link to a bigger picture:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SnLY5vWwGys/TWblQIY86XI/AAAAAAAAAE4/_J3CBycOjXY/s1600/Mogul.JPG
He's pretty cool. Turned out awesome. His fur on his body is actually "patch worked" together. I made a normal Blizzard Fleece body for him, then glued little scraps of the fur all over that body so that the fur didn't appear striped (which it is), but instead apperead to just be completely random for the different black and purple. It took a LONG time to do it that way, but the end result is great. It also allowed me to put the "patches" on in different directions, so his fur doesn't all go in one direction, but instead looks unkempt and crazy.
Mogul enjoys climbing, as do most other monkeys. He has a pretty serious problem. You know the saying "What goes up must come down?" That's not necessarily the case with Mogul. He has a tendency to climb so high into a tree that he can't get down. I'm constantly having to get my 30 foot extension ladder out to climb up into a tree and retrieve him. I feel bad punishing him for it, though, because he gets so scared when he's stuck up there. He just shakes and shivers until we're all the way back down on the ground. I keep hoping that one day he'll be able to get down on his own, but I'm not holding my breath.
Not sure why the thumbnail won't show the larger image now...here's a link to a bigger picture:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SnLY5vWwGys/TWblQIY86XI/AAAAAAAAAE4/_J3CBycOjXY/s1600/Mogul.JPG
He's pretty cool. Turned out awesome. His fur on his body is actually "patch worked" together. I made a normal Blizzard Fleece body for him, then glued little scraps of the fur all over that body so that the fur didn't appear striped (which it is), but instead apperead to just be completely random for the different black and purple. It took a LONG time to do it that way, but the end result is great. It also allowed me to put the "patches" on in different directions, so his fur doesn't all go in one direction, but instead looks unkempt and crazy.
Re: New Puppet Character...Mogul... Posted by Shawn on Feb 25, 2011
Very cute. 
I fixed the image for you. It is a bit of a "bug" in the code since I activated the new theme. Just have not had time to make changes to fix it.
I fixed the image for you. It is a bit of a "bug" in the code since I activated the new theme. Just have not had time to make changes to fix it.
Re: New Puppet Character...Mogul... Posted by nall29 on Feb 26, 2011
wow! you did a great job! i love his little story you gave him very creative. im not so good with making up stories for my puppets. Eric
im not so good with making up stories for my puppets. Eric
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