A puppet in 48 hours, part 1
1:45 p.m.
OK so the ever-present-and-increasingly-annoying-countdown on the main page tells me there is just 55 days until Bear Town debuts and I've got some serious puppet building ahead of me. So I've decided to challenge myself - I'm going to try to build one of the puppets from scratch in 48 hours.
That's right - one puppet. 48 hours. Completely from scratch.
I actually know people who can build puppets in two days or less, which I'm in awe of. I just don't work that fast - I started working on Tumbles last summer and I'm still not quite finished yet! But I'm going to try. I'll be rebuilding a character named Bluie who was originally built for the aborted Bear Town attempts in `94 and `96. Bluie's sort of a flunkie for Bear Town's main bad guy, Big Bear and will probably be showing up in the fourth episode, which we'll be shooting mid-April.
The only things I won't be making over the next two days are his sweater (which I had someone knit for me over the past few weeks) and his shirt, which I'll be swiping from the second Bluie puppet that I built.
I've got no patterns to work from. Just the pics you see above and the two old Bluie puppets themselves, the newest of which has a misshapen head and was very badly made. I'm actually really partial to the original puppet, as ratty as he is after all these years. You can seem him in action briefly doing a funny walkthrough the background of this clip in the Video Vault.
Keep in mind that I may very well fail to finish him in time. I have no intention of producing a bad or akward puppet just for the sake of finishing in 48 hours. I'll post updates every few hours as I go. Look for the first one around 4 p.m. EST today.
While I get to work here's some other stuff to mull over...
My little "48 Hour Puppet Building Project" was inspired in part by the 24 Hour Comic Challenge invented by Scott McCloud, which puppeteer/cartoonist Steve Troop recently took - check out his attempt here. Steve has also just teamed up with 'N' Toonz to offer custom Melonpool sculptures for just $35!
On the puppet building front on the other side of the globe, Isreali MC member Tztz recently won a local costume competition with this very cool, very bizzare creature which was no doubt inspired by those odd knights (I can't remember what they're called) in Labyrinth. Lots more pictures of Tztz's latest creation can be found in this directory.
OK so the ever-present-and-increasingly-annoying-countdown on the main page tells me there is just 55 days until Bear Town debuts and I've got some serious puppet building ahead of me. So I've decided to challenge myself - I'm going to try to build one of the puppets from scratch in 48 hours.
That's right - one puppet. 48 hours. Completely from scratch.
I actually know people who can build puppets in two days or less, which I'm in awe of. I just don't work that fast - I started working on Tumbles last summer and I'm still not quite finished yet! But I'm going to try. I'll be rebuilding a character named Bluie who was originally built for the aborted Bear Town attempts in `94 and `96. Bluie's sort of a flunkie for Bear Town's main bad guy, Big Bear and will probably be showing up in the fourth episode, which we'll be shooting mid-April.
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The only things I won't be making over the next two days are his sweater (which I had someone knit for me over the past few weeks) and his shirt, which I'll be swiping from the second Bluie puppet that I built.
I've got no patterns to work from. Just the pics you see above and the two old Bluie puppets themselves, the newest of which has a misshapen head and was very badly made. I'm actually really partial to the original puppet, as ratty as he is after all these years. You can seem him in action briefly doing a funny walkthrough the background of this clip in the Video Vault.
Keep in mind that I may very well fail to finish him in time. I have no intention of producing a bad or akward puppet just for the sake of finishing in 48 hours. I'll post updates every few hours as I go. Look for the first one around 4 p.m. EST today.
While I get to work here's some other stuff to mull over...
My little "48 Hour Puppet Building Project" was inspired in part by the 24 Hour Comic Challenge invented by Scott McCloud, which puppeteer/cartoonist Steve Troop recently took - check out his attempt here. Steve has also just teamed up with 'N' Toonz to offer custom Melonpool sculptures for just $35!
On the puppet building front on the other side of the globe, Isreali MC member Tztz recently won a local costume competition with this very cool, very bizzare creature which was no doubt inspired by those odd knights (I can't remember what they're called) in Labyrinth. Lots more pictures of Tztz's latest creation can be found in this directory.
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