{"id":141,"date":"2005-09-06T17:20:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2015-08-23T19:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T08:57:49","slug":"foam-latex-puppetmaking-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/09\/06\/foam-latex-puppetmaking-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Foam Latex Puppetmaking Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/foam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3533\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/09\/06\/foam-latex-puppetmaking-tutorial\/foam\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/foam.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"180,135\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"foam\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/foam.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3533\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/foam.jpg\" alt=\"foam\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boing Boing <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070612012629\/http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/09\/05\/how_to_make_latex_pu.html\">points<\/a> to Kathi Zung, a NYC maker of foam latex puppets used in animated videos and films, and in particular to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/anime4\/zungstudio\/\">Do-it-yourself Foam Latex Puppetmaking 101 tutorial<\/a> on DVD. I&#8217;d like to try something like that sometime.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same technique that was used to make the<a href=\"http:\/\/newtownfilms.com.au\/past\/leunig-animated\/\"> Leunig Animated<\/a> series that brought Michael Leunig&#8217;s cartoons to life on SBS TV a few years ago. An <a href=\"http:\/\/collectionsearch.nma.gov.au\/?f[0]=obj_collectiontitle%3AMichael%20Leunig\/Bryan%20Brown%20collection\">exhibition<\/a> showing how it had been made followed, and I loved being able to see in detail how it had been done. Strangely, while the animations themselves were really good, I felt some tension to do with the whole production of animating them weighing down the original whimsy of the cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>Updated links \u00a02015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boing Boing points to Kathi Zung, a NYC maker of foam latex puppets used in animated videos and films, and in particular to her Do-it-yourself Foam Latex Puppetmaking 101 tutorial on DVD. I&#8217;d like to try something like that sometime. This is the same technique that was used to make the Leunig Animated series that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20,107,4,14,29],"tags":[1363,343,344,1355,1365,1373],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-make","category-materials","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-tutorial","tag-animation","tag-foam-latex","tag-leunig","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-tutorial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-2h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}