Test-video of the movable eyelids and ears installed in a costume head (works the same way for a puppet):

New bird head-base:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:768876

Lower part of the beak of the bird-puppet:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:819928

Another bird puppet-head - I changed the beak and eye position - made a new lower jaw:

Get the model on Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:931636

Here is a short video of the bird - just a test, the finished puppet will look very different

I like him. Looking forward to seeing end results.

The fur covering helps a lot. It's just a personal thing with me, but the previous pics just left me with a creepy skull/skeleton type feeling. Nothing wrong with your work, it really is great.

Adding on the covering gives me a much better feel to what the character might be. Well done.

I made a nose for the cat head.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:936028

A canine toon: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1002898


I did not include a model for the lower jaw because It's faster to make one with an aluminium-profile when to print it. I just bend an aluminium rod and sculpt the teeth with Plaast (from http://www.plaast.de/) around it.


I printed this model in PLA and used Plaast to glue the three parts together.

The model is currently scaled for costume size and fits my head - you have to scale it down for a puppet.
This model was not made for animatronic eyelids - the shape of the eyes works best with a sheet of white plastic for the eyes - just paint the iris and pupil.

Impressive! I wondered when 3d printing might get involved in this sort of thing.

And presuming this hasn't been discussed previously, do you not find that this sort of puppet building where things are more or less perfectly symmetrical decreases a puppets uniqueness? For example, I'd wager that all the hand made puppets in the world don't look right mirrored and having a 3d model that can be perfectly symmetrical, does it decrease the character in that character?

What are you thoughts? Others are welcome!