Making Brown Jenkin

[GrindMasterElite]

Can you tell me which song is this please!

[bluworm]

@GrindMasterElite It's called "Poker Face" and it's a copyright-free tune I bought from Audio Network. If you want it, I can upload it and send you the link.

[Godzilla5alien]

Where do you buy your alumium wires?

[bluworm]

@Godzilla5alien I have a couple of rolls of very thick aluminum wires, that I use for the spine (and legs on heavy puppets). I bought those from a florist, who use the aluminum wire for decorations. Thinner wires were bought at an art supply, the sculpting section. Just ask around locally or do a web search. I can highly recommend that you choose aluminum wire over any other kind of metal wire for puppet making.

[Godzilla5alien]

Your models are so good! you look like a expert on these! :)

[bluworm]

@Godzilla5alien Thanks! The stuff I do is good enough for my projects.

[Django5198]

Are you a perfectionist? You work so hard on making your models look good. You work on every single detail and produce incredible results. You're a master at everything. Lighting, models, animation, design, detail. I really take my hat off to you.

[bluworm]

Thanks! I can only work one way and that is by doing my best. I've been at this for quite a while and I've become good at working with certain materials. I really appreciate your comment!

[VariedInterest]

This is excellent work. I always pictured the hands and legs to be a little bit broader and more humanoid, but I guess the nails would be more claw like as you show here. Either way, really well crafted, and I liked the way you animated him in the movie as well. Did you do any preliminary designs on paper first? As it is a step-by-step process I would have assumed to have seen such things.

[bluworm]

Thank you! I actually didn't do any design sketches of Brown Jenkin. I just started sculpting, as I often do. I had a fairly clear vision in my head of what I wanted him to look like.

[VariedInterest]

I always find the more steps the better, but that's my own tendency to change everything a dozen times. For me things get changed a few times during sketches and then a few more times in the finishing stages, invariably ending up exactly where I started. I think this kind of indecisive time wasting is an unavoidable part of the creative process for me, haha.

[StopmoNick]

You made every step clear, and the final result is wonderful!

[bluworm]

Thanks, Nick!

I do hope people can find this useful.

[mujawooja]

Once again another wonderful creation from blue worm

[bluworm]

Thank you! Very happy you liked it :)

[TheCyberController]

I just amazed ever time I see one of your puppets. They are so life like. You obviously put a lot of care and detail into each one. Well done!

[bluworm]

Thanks! I put a lot of thinking and pondering into each puppet before I start to build it, and also between stages of building.

[castlegardener]

the puppet is amazing, thanks for the behind the scenes look. I am amazed that you got so much expression from the face with the simple wires in the face. Great job.

[bluworm]

Thanks! The simple wire in the middle of the face was a lazy solution, but it worked for this short film. Had I done something longer I would've articulated the rest of the face.

[ASAngelo]

Thank you for this peek behind the characture. I am completely impressed!

A.

[bluworm]

You're welcome! I hope there's some useful info in there for other puppet builders.

[NYCity99]

This is great. Thanks for the inside tips.

Great looking character too! Peace.

[bluworm]

Thanks! I'm happy if I've managed to make people realize both the complexities and the simple beauty of this art.

[jamiequinlan]

:O

wow

[bluworm]

Great reaction; I'm humbled! Thanks!

[Dragonlordmike]

work of art matey, your doing really well, better than me infact, lol!

[bluworm]

Heh! Thanks! We all work differently and are at different stages of developing. Each project requires its own approach and we create accordingly.