Since I have posted last time on this project, I have been working the armature for the jester character. In the course of the film, this character will be picked up by larger characters and rustled around. So instead of the 12 inch characters I am used to making, I actually designed the jester to be more around somewhere between 5 to 6 inches in height. And to make him look a bit more cartoonish, (you can actually see this in the last post I made) I designed his head to be larger in proportion in to the body. This really made the new design quite tricky. However, I am very happy with how the armature looks and moves.
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| the armature with tape measure reference |
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| front view large |
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| Side view large |
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I had made ball and socket armatures for 5 or 6 years now. Not only is this armature the smallest one I have ever built, it also uses swivel joints which I had never incorporated in an armature before. Despite needing machining to super tight tolerances, they work fantastic. The other joints I have used before, but are less bulky with fewer individual parts. I can't wait to make it into an actual stop mo puppet!
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