I totally love your work. Your puppet builds are amazing. Congrats on another great character. I just love her!

Very impressive!  Great job, thanks for sharing the process with us.

Julie, Fossape or Wonderflex may be an alternative for the grey plastic material that Tioh is using. http://www.wonderflexworld.com/  Not quite the same but wanted to mention it.  Essentially sheets of plastic that can be heated up and molded.

I do like the use of the gutter guard on Tioh's puppets.  Makes for an open light weight puppet yet you still have solid structure.

TygerHawks, you where asking about cable movement in your other thread.  Have a look at the picture of the ears.  You can see that bicycle push/pull cables are used to move them.  You need solid structure to attach cable lines to for cables to work.

Very impressive!  Great job, thanks for sharing the process with us.

Julie, Fossape or Wonderflex may be an alternative for the grey plastic material that Tioh is using. http://www.wonderflexworld.com/  Not quite the same but wanted to mention it.  Essentially sheets of plastic that can be heated up and molded.

I do like the use of the gutter guard on Tioh's puppets.  Makes for an open light weight puppet yet you still have solid structure.

TygerHawks, you where asking about cable movement in your other thread.  Have a look at the picture of the ears.  You can see that bicycle push/pull cables are used to move them.  You need solid structure to attach cable lines to for cables to work.

Wonderflex has fabric inside. I used it a couple of times. It's great to make a simple mask, or fake armor. It would not work for the puppets because I need the material to fill the holes at the edge of the mesh.
There is a new type of Wonderflex that has a really smooth fabric-side - almost looks like antron-fleece. It works great if you have made a clay model for a puppet head.

If you want to sculpt with plastic there is also Worblas (http://www.mycostumes.de/Worblas-Finest-Art_1) and Kobra-Cast (http://www.mycostumes.de/KobraCast-Art_1). Worblas looks more like a natural material - great for making scales, hoofes and horns. Kobra-Cast is like thin Wonderflex with tiny holes - great far making tiny complex shapes - there is some fabric inside, so it's still strong.
 

It is great to learn about new materials.  Yes I kind of realized that they way you use the mold-able plastic, that Wonderflex or Fosshape may not be ideal.  I've worked with friendly plastic in the strips before and know you can also get it in beads that you heat up and then use kind of like clay. Might be a better solution for those of us in the states when something like that is needed. The Worbla product looks kind of like the Fosshape. I know it is more like simply a sheet a plastic unlike the Wonderflex which I think is fabric with the plastic infused into it. I am intrigued by the KobraCast product. It states "The structure of the material allows air passage and excellent relation to stability and weight of the product". Might be nice for bases of costume character heads. It is also nice that it has a minimum shelf life of three years. Often with products like this you have to purchase a fairly large amount and yet use only a little on each project. Nice to know it won't "spoil" on you.

It is great to learn about new materials.  Yes I kind of realized that they way you use the mold-able plastic, that Wonderflex or Fosshape may not be ideal.  I've worked with friendly plastic in the strips before and know you can also get it in beads that you heat up and then use kind of like clay. Might be a better solution for those of us in the states when something like that is needed. The Worbla product looks kind of like the Fosshape. I know it is more like simply a sheet a plastic unlike the Wonderflex which I think is fabric with the plastic infused into it. I am intrigued by the KobraCast product. It states "The structure of the material allows air passage and excellent relation to stability and weight of the product". Might be nice for bases of costume character heads. It is also nice that it has a minimum shelf life of three years. Often with products like this you have to purchase a fairly large amount and yet use only a little on each project. Nice to know it won't "spoil" on you.

Worbla does not have a fabric layer - it's more like Wonderflex when Fosshape.

I am in absolute awe of Savannah - she is simply amazing!