[Stop motion] How to make a Puppet | Wire Armature & Wool felt Body 

Excellent 😁 Wish you all the best for your project.

Puppet making is really fun and love to see your works coming. Good luck for job hunting!

Sending big thanks from Hong Kong !!

@@JoWingStudio :)

Oh thank you!

Thank you 😊

You can check this out my Skillshare class with this link for my detailed process. www.skillshare.com/r/user/jojolau

I use rig for supporting the puppet. You can check this video for your reference. :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vuz9ZGiN1vs.html&ab_channel=JoWingStudio

Depends on how big you make of the foot to keep it balanced. You can add a blu tack on the bottom of the foot to keep it stable.

My pleasure :)

It may work but I haven't tried it. The purpose of using epoxy putty is to dry fast and hard. Just achieving that should be alright.

Maybe fabric or clay eyelids for blinking and differently shaped fabric pieces for the mouth? I’m just guessing bc I’ve only made silicone puppets

I made wool felted eyelids and self made stickers for mouth and eye expressions.

@JoWingStudio Can you or are you making a video about that? This would really help with efforts of stop motion. As well your video's are awesome.

這個是空心黃銅條(K&S SQUARE BRASS TUBE) 方便用來隨意更換頭部/手腳.

喔喔喔！原來這樣可以隨意更換頭部！也謝謝你告訴我是黃銅條！太感謝了

I normally bought them in local modeling store and Amazon tho.

@@JoWingStudio thanks, I just ordered a starting kit, tho I already have the armature because i started with claymation.

@@Sndjsjdjfbbd Nice! :)

@@JoWingStudio also, I really enjoy your series

@@Sndjsjdjfbbd Thanks, I’ll keep going. 😊

Thank you !! No joke about it lol

Thank you!! Can’t wait for it👍🏻

Awww, Thank you so much！

Thank you so much. I used a electric screwdriver to twist the wire and it can change the head.

You’re very welcome! And thanks-I thought it was a screwdriver, but I wasn’t sure. And what a great way to remove the head! I was trying to figure it out on my own-I was thinking of using magnets lol, but this is a way better idea I do have one more question: what gauge of wire did you use? (I’m also going to definitely check out your skillshare class! 😃)

​@@primejourney946 Just s general 1mm aluminium wire, bought it from the craft shop. Yeah, please check !!😁

Thank you 😊 you can check out Ham ham & Rabby which is the stop motion series of this character.

You can find it in modeling/ crafting shop, it’s called k&s square brass. And yes , you need to cut it by yourself.

@@JoWingStudio oh neat, thank you!

It used for as a human bones, which I can bend the elbow/knees at the same position easily when I animated. And Thank you for watching :)

That's good, I'm glad you have made your own puppet :)

Thank you so much !! ☺️ I don’t have gloves at this point lol.

I cut the brass tubes with mini hand saw

That's great. I'm grateful it helps with your school project.

Thanks .Happy to hear that 😊

@@JoWingStudio my pleasure mate ^^

I haven’t tried it before. If the polymer clay is retained the structure strongly, I think is fine.

Polymer would probably work, i'd say if you were gonna use normal polymer then you'd wanna bake it, but if you wasn't gonna bake it, you could probably use the harder stuff that is grey, the normal is like a tan colour. either way if you're gonna use polymer for this, you probably wanna bake it when it's on the wire armature for like 15mins? just make sure your armature metal isn't gonna melt or cause a lot of smoke when you put it in the oven and make sure to let it cool fully so you dont burn yourself on the metal. (Just saying cause i know i would forget this lol. also if you've already done this, let me know what it came out like since i might use some polymer too.

I’m glad you find this helpful !! :)

Yeah, I think it works, but haven’t tried tho. As long as it’s stable for the joints.

What's the most important part & what do you want to make? Please tell me about it, I can learn from you🙂.

Thank you 😊

Thank you so much :)

You can watch the video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mv3At4pU-2c.html , the character can move like that.

The character does not move, you have to give the character life through stop motion.

You probably make longer wires of the neck part and leave some space between wires and square brass tube. You can check my Skillshare course for one month free,it’s updated version of this. Thanks😊

You’re welcome ☺️

Thank you !

That was my mom

It will break eventually. However, you can make sustainable wire by using thread, wrapping it around the twisted wire at 5:27.

@@JoWingStudio Sustainable wire? May you tell me a few more details of that process and explain how thread preserves wire durability?

@@e-mananimates2274 You can check the link below, she explains the details. Hope that can help you :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VUm_pbBYT8s.html&ab_channel=NiceShorts instagram.com/p/CMTLx2-Driq/

Thank you, I will :)

Haha, good!

Thanks for watching. :)

Happy to help! :)

Also epoxy putty is not available. Is there a substitute? Thank you.

Haven't tried felt paper before but it would be work. You can sew with it.

@@techports4842 Milliput

@@JoWingStudio tysm!

我不是戳在環氧土裡，因為太硬戳不進去。我是戳著圍繞環氧土附近的羊毛氈。

原來如此！謝謝你熱心的解說！❤️因為我之前兩條鐵絲的交接處都沒有上環氧土，但看你的影片&其他國外視頻，發現大多數的人都有加環氧土。想請問上了環氧土會穩固度提升很多嗎？是否會因環氧土很硬，有些動作不能做呢？

@@alivefeltingstudio7465 對啊 是非常堅固。還有使用環氧土很快塑型及硬化，節省等待乾燥時間。想像環氧土是人類的骨頭 ，整作時要留空隙給關節位移動，那就不會有什麼動作問題。

@@alivefeltingstudio7465 只要交接位沒有移位 我想不用環氧土都可以的

謝謝你，你真的好熱心！我了解了！很喜歡你的頻道