Making a Stopmotion Puppet! (Experimentative Tutorial)

[@LandvaettrsLair]

For those wanting to build the lego amarture I bought the lego pieces from an Ebay seller called Brick& Go here are the links to the pieces I bought 3-4 of each bundle If I recall but I have some spares left, but I have no doubt you can find them elsewere: (3X) www.ebay.fr/itm/LEGO-x-4-22890-6123814-Plaque-Boule-gris-Plate-Ball-1x2-Towball-NEUF-NEW/122934797712?hash=item1c9f7c2590:g:MiIAAOSwlAZaa0Lr (3X) www.ebay.fr/itm/6-x-LEGO-14418-Plaque-Rotule-gris-grey-Plate-1x2-Towball-Socket-NEUF-NEW/122444315880?hash=item1c823ffce8:g:FbAAAOSwFmxaa0KG (2X) www.ebay.fr/itm/6-x-LEGO-14704-Plaque-Rotule-gris-grey-Plate-1x2-Towball-Socket-NEUF-NEW-/122444317136 (4X) www.ebay.fr/itm/6-x-LEGO-Technic-2736-Axe-Boule-Rotule-gris-grey-Cross-Axle-Towball-NEUF-NEW-/122377576399

[@bhuvanlolabhattu9574]

Dude where is the links

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Dude you need to click on "read more" to expand the pinned comment and see the Links.

[@bhuvanlolabhattu9574]

@@LandvaettrsLair got it

[@skullLOVERGamez]

@@LandvaettrsLair since building this puppet how has the lego armature been holding up?

[@LandvaettrsLair]

@@skullLOVERGamez very well, but I must confess I didnt get to use it remotely as much as I wanted to...it is curently stored in a dry box and preserved from heat or cold. Then again the legos tecnics ball and sockets joints that me and my brother used as kids are still in a good shape and they did sustain quite a bit of abuse back then.

[@loevaart]

I've wanted to make a stop motion animation for so long but I didn't know how to make it movable, I had lots of problems with the skeleton and the materials I would put on top but now I think I have a better idea of what to do! Thank you! My doll will be named Mayuki 😊

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Glad I could be helpful, have a nice one building and animating your doll!

[@krankerspast769]

That's a beautiful name :)

[@coxcopi]

Omg Mayuki is an awesome name!

[@mohdhaseen4216]

How to you making via puppet

[@vickos13]

I might try this during quarantine

[@aysenurandac9519]

Me too!

[@sufferedenuf]

5 years ago and still very useful info. Thank you!

[@davidsheppard1133]

There was a lot of trial and error, but you kept developing your puppet until success! It was very enjoyable to watch your character come to life! Look forward to seeing your stop animation movie.

[@HocusFocusProductions]

Very cool. For those just getting started, I found that using 3-inch skeletons as a base helped me with getting proportions right. There are a plethora of action figure weapons that fit with them and inuse aluminum foil to build them up so that if a wire breaks, there is still some poseability to the puppet. I hope to be able to get this detailed one day.

[@depoanimation4850]

I Like the way you showed not only succeeds but failures like wire armatures and so on . Thanks, I think it’s important

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Yeah I'm no expert, I wanted to show the process. During experimentation shit happens you gotta adapt, figuring out is part of the fun imo...even if avoiding the main errors is a good thing can prevent real frustration, a little tutorial always comes handy😁. Thanks for your feedback, Cheers!

[@depoanimation4850]

Landvaettr's Lair i just know the feeling ) I made myself a worm puppet out of silicone, with a wire armature inside. I don’t have enough fingers to count how many times it used to brake ...

[@1525kat]

fascinating! I really appreciate your including the multiple attempts at things. It reminds us to keep trying until something works! thanks so much. (Also, really like the new place - so much natural light to work in!!!!!)

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks Kat! Glad you appreciated seeing the whole experiment, errors are just as important as acheivements in a creative process, so yeah I figure I'd show most of it. ;) Yes the new flat is wonderful, we really enjoy living here!

[@televisionkid7783]

i’m hoping to make a stop motion short before i graduate high school :) this was a super helpful video!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Do it! Glad this helped, Cheers!

[@patrickmasse7159]

Beau travail de patience et de persévérance. Le personnage a une bonne tête. A star is born !

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Merci!

[@PlabsUnderscore]

OMG .... The fact that this is your first usable attempt makes me excited for your future endeavors! Can´t wait!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks, can't wait either :)

[@doncorleon9]

Came here from Edu Puertas. This is wonderful.

[@bulldogstrut1]

For a first attempt you did very well. Several useful tips as well.

[@mr.e1944]

That is so cool! Years ago I made a puppet to use to make a children’s book I used the aluminum wire and a foam sculpting medium for the body. I remember making shoes from leather and got my mother to sew the dress. I had issues with flexibility. I only had to do a dozen position. I love the LEGO idea. It is brilliant! I wish I thought of that back then.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Glad you liked, I only thought about the lego because I couldn't really afford the actual articulted metal armature, and aluminium broke... Had to find a cheap but worthy alternative ;)

[@jeremysolo4972]

Negative views on videos like this... Makes no sense. Loving you work, man! Seriously inspiring!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks! It really doesnt matter It feeds the algorithm just the same and creates just as much traffic as likes. But thanks for your kind words! Support is always appreciated!

[@jeremysolo4972]

@@LandvaettrsLair after a few years hiatus I've been building a lot lately, watching all the usuals. Youts, tho, are definitely different than the norm. You have a different quality and it shows.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Getting back to crafting after a long Hiatus always feels awesome, have a great time doing it and thanks for the kind words.

[@douglastaylor6160]

amazing and a great tutorial and even with all the errors you made pointing out your downfalls and your successes well done

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks for your feedback. Yes, trial and errors are part of the creative process and deserve to be shared just as much as the successes in my opinion.

[@jamietherocketship5087]

Love your video! I love that you included your entire journey of failing and succeeding! I am an MFA student for Animation and I have failed so many times, but so many videos only include the parts when it works. It's not as easy as it looks!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Indeed, I wanted to show the process, Im no expert by any means and you always find failure on the path to success. Glad you liked the vidéo ! Have a good one animating! Cheers!

[@jasongomez5012]

Have you've ever watch the very, very end of Paranormal movie??? Like maybe the last 20 seconds. It shows in stop animation how the main character Norman was made from being to him walking away in claymation. You will most likely have to go frame by frame to see the whole process, but it is so amazing how he was made.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Never have watched that movie, will check

[@normanshadow1]

That's an insane amount of work! And to think I was going to give up making my miniature fireplace!

[@aurelb5412]

The tremendous work done here... dude, thank you and congratulations. Great job!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks, hope it gave you some ideas & tricks.

[@LotteStarck]

Fine range of inspiration, impressed by your solving the element of 'dagger/sword' with a cool finish too, thx!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks for your feedback, glad you enjoyed the making.

[@veloz7860]

Very inspiring. I've been animating miniature poseable skeletons lately and they are almost impossible to work with for a variety of reasons. Your video has got me thinking about the possibility of making my own characters. Thanks! It's also good to see how much trial and error you had to go through; I don't feel like such a dunce now, given all me tries and retries!

[@krankerspast769]

Holy crap amazing job with the Legos

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks!

[@hulyanlao889]

youre a wizard,harry.

[@universalvoyager5889]

Thanks for the tutorials!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks for the feedback! Cheers!

[@lilya4692]

Nice! going to use your eye placement mechanism

[@alrethianscraftsbattles]

Very cool mate! Thx to you i can now make a witcher figure for my son. Thank you for this 👍

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Happy this could help. Good Luck crafting your witcher figure, you have quite some work on your hands!

[@alrethianscraftsbattles]

@@LandvaettrsLair i would imaginê so 😁 but it is all part of the fun

[@instahamx684]

So smart to salvage leather from old jackets 🙌 Beautiful work 🔥💯

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks for your feedback! Yeah leather is durable, can be used for so many things. I'd be a shame to juste throw it away!

[@mackdaddy.7610]

Your prob!am solving skills.are to be admired my friend I watched start to finish and subscribed and am looking forward to your first full length movie lo!

[@deadchannel3945]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

You're welcome!

[@stefanpfeffer6507]

Great work! Very inspiring. For your Rigg, paint it black - cause it‘s easier to remove at postproduction. I‘m looking forward for your work and wish all the best for your projects & progress.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

@Stefan Pfeffer I defenelty need to paint the rig, but I think I'll choose a neon green instead, it'll be easier to select the color range and remove it post production. Thanks for your incentives!

[@stefanpfeffer6507]

Dear Landvaettr's Lair, neon green is maybe the better choice, for sure. I can also rcommend the making off(s) from LAIKA-Studios. Quite interesting and good for getting ideas.

[@punchek]

That's cool! Thank you for showing the whole process, mistakes and all, that is very helpful :) About making clothing - I saw a good method to make doll clothes. You wrap a doll in some plastic wrap and then put paper tape (like a masking tape) on it. Then you design shape of your clothes on top of the tape and carefully cut and remove tape from the doll. It gives you very accurate template. Hope it's usefull :D

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks for the feedback! Sure, mistakes can be frustrating but are a necessary pain to learn, needed to show the process as it was. Thanks for the tip! actually knew about the technique applied for actual tailored clothing but for some reason never thought of using it in puppet making lol (than again I am novice in puppetmaking ). Thanks!

[@billbaggins9961]

Very well done. I really enjoyed your presentation on the build. Nicely done for your first try. I thinks many of us would be happy with those accomplishments as is, let alone making it better as we go and learn. I can't wait for a short video of hi in action!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Didn't have much time for animation lately, i've been focusing on RPGs, but live defenetly got the itch for animation thèse days! Thanks for your feedback!

[@ThatGuyZeb]

k&s brand tubing is great for square tubing. They make telecoping sizes that fit into each other. It's expensive but we don't need much for it.

[@jean-francoistasse7788]

Thank you for sharing your experiments, I learned a lot from them. What I have learn about wires is that even aluminium wire can break easily if you don't chose the right one. It as to be as pure as possible, meaning no treatment of any kind. So hardware store aluminium wire is not the ideal one. You have to purchase them somewhere or on some website that is clearly marked "aluminium stop motion wire". Also, Edu Puertas made some tests about twisting wires and it turns out that the wires that lasted the longest are the wires that was twisted a maximum of 5 times.

[@LizardMotionFilms]

Haha so I'm not the only one who ordered those lego parts!

[@geetsharma8696]

It would be grateful, if you advise me the right online place to order it

[@LizardMotionFilms]

@@geetsharma8696 I think it was a site like bricklink. I used ldd to put the parts together beforehand then looked at tutorials how to export the list to an online store.

[@xaviae888]

Are you harry potter? man! its magic thanks! nice tut

[@dianamidnightpiano4077]

You are magic! Bravo👏

[@raisahmad6317]

Nice video 👌 👌 bro From India 🇮🇳

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thank you from France!

[@stupedstuff7757]

Inspiring stuff! Makes me want to get back into stop motion!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Me too lol!

[@uchihaclan7588]

I love your work ❤️ Please make a 8inch spiderman puppet with his tight fitting costume so that all the muscles can be seen.

[@rollotomasi1964]

great work and it has given me some ideas

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks, it was the intend! Cheers

[@nlmfilms6641]

This is a fantastic stop motion puppet! The detail is very well done!😀

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks!

[@nlmfilms6641]

@@LandvaettrsLair Anytime!😄

[@fernandovelazquez-alvarez4222]

Nice video! Your work is inspiring, despite the fact that it was painstakingly done though trial and error, nevertheless your patience and determination were decisive to accomplish a task that demanded a great deal of meticulousness.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thank you for your feedback and appreciation!

[@Goodnews4man]

Wonderfully done.

[@peggytoes99]

I learned a lot - THANK YOU!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Glad you liked! Cheers!

[@joradienjoradien8107]

So fantastic ! please give us part two

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks, Unfortunatelly I'm not working on Stopmotion atm, I have another tutorial for rpg crafting on the making.

[@chickenator9618]

thanks for giving us different options for this

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Glad you liked, there are many others options in stopmotion this is mostly my creative process. There are surely other/better ways to do.

[@chickenator9618]

Landvaettr's Lair can you make a small 1 please

[@kid1angel]

that is amazing dude, keep up the good work

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks!

[@jameshurley6021]

well done! this gives me a lot to ponder and work out BEFORE I make an attempt!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Good! It was the intend of the video. Showing my process to give insight and heads-up on the different issues to attend! Thanks for your feedback !

[@b0x0fmatch35]

Great work dude. Just starting my own project. Inspirational. 👌🏼

[@LandvaettrsLair]

thanks, glad it helped with your project!

[@matiasg1176]

This is amazing! I'm just starting with stop motion animation, and this was very inspirational. Are you still working on this project? I would love to see some clips.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Glad you liked! I've been quite busy lately and didn't focus on animation much, but it's defenetly something I wanna do, hopefully you'll get notified by youtube's algorythm when I do ;)

[@Unknownexplained790]

Awesome

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thx

[@apr670]

I loved every minute of your video and I am looking forward to more such experimental videos ❤️🙏🏻 thank you

[@marktvmarktv6652]

very well done video this is cool

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks, glad you liked.

[@marktvmarktv6652]

@@LandvaettrsLair yes its really amazing stop motion thats why i never stop learning to your channel

[@jeremyquint848]

You should use sticker lip sync for you characters face. Somebody call Michel parks did an amazing tutorial on it.

[@donnaleiber6214]

Very interesting and informative! Thank you!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Glad it was useful! Thanks for your feedback!

[@44danielson]

that was great

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Glad you liked. Cheers!

[@nerdyvoiceactors]

Thats realy good, big thumbs up 🙂👍

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thank you! Nice animations on your channel Btw!

[@nerdyvoiceactors]

@@LandvaettrsLair thank you 🙂

[@rioforce]

I keep coming back to watch this video, it’s so incredible. I’m getting ready to make my own stop-motion video using your rig technique soon, and I can’t thank you enough for the tutorial. I can’t wait I get mine built!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Glad the tutorial was helpful, just Keep in mind Im no expert, just a dexterous enthousiast. The tutorial should defenetly be helpful but be prepared to face failures or setbacks. Figuring out stuff is part of the fun anyway ;)

[@RealTerrainHobbies]

WOW! Great animations at the end there and great model. Very impressed man.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks! the animations were just to give it a try and see if the puppet and the rig worked correctly, I'll try to make smthing more fluid and more polished next time :)

[@GeorgeQ]

Good job man

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thank you.

[@JeffLafferty]

Great puppet!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks !

[@lescinqsources]

this is really good! thanks.

[@epicdungeontiles]

Absolutely amazing! I was following over on twitter and the end result is brilliant. I'd love to try this one day :) great work! The final animations are so enjoyable to watch.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed, the animations were mostly just to give it a try and see if the puppet and the rig worked correctly, I'll try to make something more fluid and polished next time, with a green screen and better lighting :)

[@epicdungeontiles]

@@LandvaettrsLair Looking forward to it! :)

[@malkagael2596]

Nice experiments. I think that the name of the knife is Pukko, it is the name in Finland. If you don't want to have problems with your airbrush, always think to filter the paint before usind, though a stocking for instance or through a tea (I don't know the name in English)and it will be the very end to thoses problems.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks for your feedback and advices! I've never seen any miniature airbrusher out there using a filter for miniature paint though, I do add a bit of medium thinner but miniature paint is supposed to be thin pigmentation already...

[@malkagael2596]

filtering all paints is a real solution: most of acrylic or synthetic paints are small bits of pigments floating in something, and after a while they agglomerate and find very funny to spend some time in your airbrush nozzle and stop paint to go through.If you filter your paint just before using it you will stop their nasty little game and show who rules the act of painting, trust me, I spend nearly 40 years airbrushing.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

@@malkagael2596 thanks a bunch, will defenetly try this out!

[@brickfalcon6368]

Wow clevvvver!

[@gpraneeth3140]

Amazing .Thank you so much.

[@MistCellaneous-5]

What you could have done is instead of letting the clay dry, you could have made a very neutral looking face but you would have sculpted different parts of that's still wet clay animated More expressive that way. You would have still have the same shape of the head but you would have different expressions to go along with it.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

yeah i'm defenelty going to redo the head with a more neutral expression and find a way to make the mouths. The idea of the wet clay is interesting but would take too trouble and much time to animate for what im looking for, however i'm gonna experiment this non drying clay for muscles and other softer parts, under a latex skin for future puppets. hopefully it'll give a more natural bend for muscles/exposed limbs/extruding bodyfat.

[@ifrainjimenez8857]

Wow Lve you videos 👍 good job !!

[@okstopmotion5041]

In 10 days this will be four years old.

[@danielbell6052]

5 years

[@LizardMotionFilms]

I stuff some aluminium between the joints too. Not many folds. Maybe it was 2 or 3 max.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Interesting, I'll remember.

[@kdargosun13]

How about the tutorial "how to make bonfire like in dark souls for D&D"?

[@LandvaettrsLair]

That's one very specific demand lol. Did a tutorial a while back to make a D&D fireplace and showed a similar bonfire in the same episode. I'm sure you could easily change it to look like the bonfire from dark souls. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH_aiHmiqKpgopY

[@sandalterbang5540]

I want to make stop motion puppet like paranorman and Shaun the sheep What ingredients do they use ?

[@LandvaettrsLair]

For their puppets Aardman studio animators usually use an articulated metallic skeleton topped with a non-drying modeling clay called Plastilina. You can usually find several hardness of Plastilina to suit your purpose.

[@ako9212]

Those are very very different styles. Paranorman uses a lot of 3D printed and hand painted props and mechanical armatures. Shaun the sheep uses a lot of hand sculpted colored clay and wire armatures. Shaun the sheep is a more realistic place for a beginner to start I would say.

[@MattTheLizard]

I want to do a mashup of this and the book of Genesis.

[@Stopmotiondex]

Uhhhhh uhhhh uhhhh lol. Im sorry but it was too funny. Thank you for showing us how to make our own puppet!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

You're welome.

[@fmlproductions7178]

rly cool

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thx

[@gameofgianpa]

Bravo

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thank you!

[@Simplemana]

Can you do more videos of building puppets?

[@LandvaettrsLair]

when I'll have the time I'll defenetly do.

[@Simplemana]

Landvaettr's Lair thanks

[@cortez1203]

I'm starting to do my own stop motion films

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Congratulations and good animating to you!

[@AlexBabcock-hw9iz]

Not sure how it is you dont have many more subscribers, your work is very incredible. I hear people ask all the time how to make things with cheap or free materials and you do this in spades. I don't know if you watch Bard's Craft and Franky D Crafter but they both have very unique channels using simple easy yo get material that I think you'd enjoy. Cheers and hope your audience continues to grow.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Hey Chris, thanks for your longtime support. I haven't been very productive uploading content on the channel lately so it defenelty doesn't help the channel grow. But the slow growth its probably because I disabled the ads on the vids when I made the channel (my content is free and I wanted the tutorials to be accessible without ads hindering the viewer experience ;) ), but it turns out the KZbin algorithm doesn't reference the content very well when you don't enable ads...I've just very recently enabled them maybe it'll boost the visibility a little bit... I'm gonna check the channels you shared! Cheers!

[@landuinpan]

I love this, amazing! :D!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks, glad you like.

[@tylers2591]

great video. you're very talented. I think the lego armature idea is way out of my league on a technical level...but I'm going to give it a go. I have just started getting into this hobby, but it's kind of amazing that so many people on KZbin talk about wire armatures instead of building with individual lego pieces like you did. Did you buy those individually?

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Yeah i ordered the parts i needed on a site called "brick and go" but you can find various other furnishers. Wire armature is a good option to go faster provided the wires are numerous enough and joints long enough to sustain bending ( best for bigger puppets) but if your scale is a little bigger you Can also consider bionicles, you shouldnt have to fiddle as much with separte parts....

[@tylers2591]

@@LandvaettrsLair Ya I was also looking at Bionicles Hero Factory stuff...I might buy both and see what I can do. Not nearly as handy as you. Thanks again!

[@c3diy]

Nice build! However keep in mind lick flickers are the enemy of the stop motion-er, be sure to use good quality DC powered lights and dont move your lamps while animating your Stop motion quality will greatly improve! i used to make stop motion with actual lego figures but i've never thought of using ball joints, maybe Bionicle ball joints could work too? (They are much bigger so they might make for some bigger armatures but as far as i remember they cant hold that much weight, maybe some modifications could make it work?)

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Hey thanks for your advices ! Rest assured I intend to shoot with a better setup i just used a free app on the holiday vacations to test. This is why i wasn't too concerned by the poor light and the lack of fluidity un mouvement, hindered by very limited onion skin feature of the app. I now have a Real soft for animating and intend to shoot on Green/blue screen under controled lights.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Concering bionicles I did consider it when looking for the parts, but the pieces were way too bulky for the thin articulations I wanted for this character. However for a larger puppet it could work, with a few tweaks... if you ever try tell me what you thought about it! Cheers!

[@jenky1044]

@@LandvaettrsLair You did a great job.! I see your comments and if I may make a suggestion....watch your camera settings. You can do away with the lights flickering with camera settings. Again you are doing an awesome job.! I can't wait to see your next one. EDIT:. I just subscribed to your channel so I don't miss it. Also it looks like you've already put up some nice videos, so I will be checking those out too. Peace.

[@aaronn1606]

This is so amazing wish I had the stuff to make it😥

[@sigempar9667]

look good i love it

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks!

[@draugrhart121]

Little Viking chap

[@thierrychaubet4400]

Good morning Thanks for this tuto on puppet for stopmotiona animation.I'm beginner in this and I've somme problem to stabilize my puppet (made with a metal squeletton).What do you use to have an holder for yr puppet when a walk is needed. Many thnaks for yr answer Thierry

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Hi Thierry I use part of an old metal stand tool coupled with a bit of strong eletrical cable, you can see it at the end during the little animation tryouts. I used a strong magnet and a metal plate on his back (under the clothes) to Keep Bjorn airborne. Works good with me but it can become tricky in mid air and the Puppet does come undone sometimes during handling. For more reliablity I suppose its better to use square tubing fixations. Go check the links in the video description, especially Edu Puertas he's a professional and has great vids on rigs and fixations. Bon j'ai répondu en anglais aux cas ou d'autres lisent le comment pour des réponses mais je te souhaite bonne création avec ta figure articulée!

[@dhillydallyfilms5866]

This is a very good, helpful video and you included many excellent puppetry tips+tricks. Are you planning to make some more stop motion animations using this puppet or another one?

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Hi! I'd love to. I actually have quite a few "modular" puppets in mind that I want to create, serveral morphologies that could be used for various characters, but for now I spent time making tabletop terrain for RPG, at least when I get the time to do so. But I'm eager to get back to stopmotion. Thanks for your feedback!

[@keanugusta]

Hey! Love the build. Could you link the website to where you got the legos please?

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks! I bought these on Ebay shop "Brick and Go", because it was a french supplier and the postal fee was low for me, but you can find other similar furnisher online. www.ebay.fr/str/brick-and-go/Pieces-parts/_i.html?_storecat=51454529013&_pgn=2

[@LandvaettrsLair]

@vitavat bob Hi I bought my pieces from an Ebay seller called Brick& Go here are the links to the pieces I bought 3-4 of each bundle If I recall but I have some spares left, but I have no doubt you can find them elsewere: (3X) www.ebay.fr/itm/LEGO-x-4-22890-6123814-Plaque-Boule-gris-Plate-Ball-1x2-Towball-NEUF-NEW/122934797712?hash=item1c9f7c2590:g:MiIAAOSwlAZaa0Lr (3X) www.ebay.fr/itm/6-x-LEGO-14418-Plaque-Rotule-gris-grey-Plate-1x2-Towball-Socket-NEUF-NEW/122444315880?hash=item1c823ffce8:g:FbAAAOSwFmxaa0KG (2X) www.ebay.fr/itm/6-x-LEGO-14704-Plaque-Rotule-gris-grey-Plate-1x2-Towball-Socket-NEUF-NEW-/122444317136 (4X) www.ebay.fr/itm/6-x-LEGO-Technic-2736-Axe-Boule-Rotule-gris-grey-Cross-Axle-Towball-NEUF-NEW-/122377576399

[@rossellacreti5132]

Hi :) First of all thank you very much, this tutorial was very helpful and your puppet is amazing! I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit more about how you did the hands, because I think that's a very tricky part. Thank you very much in advance! :)

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Hi Rossella! Hands are tricky. The "fastest" and easiest way I know is using several thin and souple wires (think aluminium or copper) twisted together at the wrist and separating at the palm. (Either twist them manually or Maybe you Can come up upon electric wires that are already made of smaller intertwined wires inside the insulation shaft.) I advice you to seal the wires inside the palm of the hand (i used époxy, other hardening pastes could do the trick provided they are reliable). I than rolled some thread around the fingers to bulk them up before I added the latex. In any case I suggest you do a bunch of spares because because the thin wirering make them notoriously fragile. Hope this explanation was somewhat helpful! Happy crafting to you!

[@rossellacreti5132]

@@LandvaettrsLair it was! Thank you very much :) Sorry, I have one last question: could you please also tell me where did you buy the air drying latex? Just to be sure to buy the right one :) Thank you again and have a nice day :)

[@LandvaettrsLair]

@@rossellacreti5132 the brand is "Esprit composite" it's french, I bought it in an art store supplier were I live, but I'm sure you can find other similar product were you live in an art supply store or online. Just make sure It's air drying and meant for blanket moulds/masks/puppets making.

[@petenicezz]

Is there a site to buy puppets already done?

[@siremine2192]

What size tubing did you use for the bones?

[@kevinthepirate4633]

How could you do this to LEGOs...?

[@LandvaettrsLair]

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[@a_n_i_m_o_t_i_o_n_s]

you done quite well with your puppet development.. I can so relate to the frustrations that your trying to resolve and come up with a puppet that works well enough.. I'm at a stage now where I'm considering learning to make mods and cast in silicone resin from sculpts, but it's a mind field of info to get through.. I'm just watching the pros working on Stan Winston School of Arts, there's a 7 day free trial.. they have hundreds of vids on there you can watch.. I never considered lego parts.. I wouldn't have thought that would work, especially the more weight you add to the frame of the puppet, it all affects the way the armature moves.. and rigging issues etc.. and with the plastic lego joints you ended up using, did you have any issues the more you used it, I recal buying one of those neca toys off eBay of Coraline doll and after a while the joints don't stay rigid, they lose strength, so I don't think it's going to be a long term solution.. but we can only learn and develop by going through the creative process of building and testing... no matter which creative choices we make, there's going to be ongoing technical issues right.. so good luck with this one.. even if you only get so much performance out of the little fellow, that's good, I can relate on the wire always breaking though.. I'm getting fed up with putting so much work into building a puppet with skin and clothes and then the ankle or the shoulder or the hip breaks and it's so hard to repair because we've covered everything over. unless you design your armatures with replaceable joints, so it would be easier to replace parts if / when they break...

[@rachend810]

Hi, I'm your new subscriber!

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Welcome on Landvaettr's Lair!! 🙂

[@taylorwells3706]

Very good idea with the lego joints. Use gloves with that Epoxy putty, it's nasty stuff!

[@voronOsphere]

Thank you!

[@AlexBabcock-hw9iz]

Lol first ha you were frist. Looking good figured you were going to have to go to ball joints sockets. The Corpse Bride dvd had some interesting added content on the stop motion figures on it.

[@LandvaettrsLair]

Thanks, yeah it seemed like the most durable option but it's still too long to create. The next puppets are gonna be larger and wired, i'll just make sure to have enough removable ans spare parts.

[@louiegarcia7992]

Can you send me the link of the latex brand please?