Ss1-Making sure the eyes don't pop out.

On the edge of ready to animate.

As you'll notice apart from the obvious of no eyes there isn't enough room for the eyes to move about and easily fall out so there must be a way around it without starting another puppet so I tried thickening out around the eyes did't really do much.
The next step was to have some tape blocking the eyes from falling out so get the right size tape latex it in place then paint on top but fit the eyes in first so the paint doesn't crack, thats another thing there isn't a lot of movement in the face so the paint does't have to strain on the movements(which causes cracks).
 

 Latexing several pieces of tape in place, the only problem was the tape being bright yellow the face colour didn't really match and so the whole head needed to be painted to also cover cracks from previous latex layers which weren't thick enough so peeled when they were touched.

As you'll notice trying out different pigments of skin tone but all turning out too pink.

Latex trying on the hand just after trying out a skin pigment and wanted to see how the colour changed with latex on top.

 Head painted and thickened around the eyes.

Base coat first,he's not tanned.

Plenty of space to get the eyes in and move the foam tape around the eyes.

First coat of second skin tone which will be a lighter version once paint try s.

Ss1-Don't be rood say hello!Animating first puppet.

Just a little something i made earlier...

Dragon Stop-motion

First puppet wasn't a full success but can you tell,set up my new software Dragon today with control pannel and started making a little clip a test really to see how my puppet was to animate and what have you.

  Painted him in a Mime way which looks different but when it comes to animate the character is very friendly, also testing out a latex hand i made prior in the week which i matched up the colours to keep to the same character.

This puppet is a before puppet to get the learning proccess of software,materials,character and lighting up to scratch for my 10 second clip which will be used and be marked on for Ss1 and my Canimation project.

Before adding colour and making more of a mime out of him the reason of the shine is i might of over done it on the latex as it was the first puppet i latexed which i think would of worked a little better if i added the colour before the latex.

Third puppet in the making

This is my next puppet which i have already started on which will have no mouth in place like the others instead will be using replacement mouths to be able to lip sync emotions a lot easier and might just use my acrylic eyes which i have been saving.