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Foam construction puppet tutorial at Bear Town

Posted by hil

I’ve been enjoying PuppetVision Blog for a while now. Based in Toronto, Canada, it casts its net much wider, and looks at video and film puppetry.

PuppetVision’s blogger, Andrew, is also creating Bear Town, a web-based puppetry project. Part of the ‘behind the scenes’ information there is a step-by-step series of articles documenting the making of Tumbles B.Bear. There’s a useful tutorial about a soft foam puppet construction method nicknamed ‘the wedge method’, (free pattern) where a series of wedges is used to a make hollow ball of varying shape, as well as information about how Tumbles’ arms, hands and mouth are made.

Updated 2015: some links broken, some renewed

Mystery of the big foam foot

Posted by hil

A 3′ x 5′ sculpted foam rubber foot has mysteriously been doing the rounds of Westwood somewhere near Boston. In a bigger picture, the finish looks surprisingly smooth and hard for foam rubber that has been carted around, and its puzzling that its described as too heavy for one person to carry. Pretty cool foot though :-).