From our idea about the two small and tall characters we discussed this quite a lot and ended up doing a lot of notes and examples of the two characters. How these two characters could compliment each other despite the contrast like other well known duos. We also watched some making of videos/DVD's of puppets mostly inspired from stop motion and ways to film a performance. As well as a type of plan of tasks which would could try to achieve in the next couple of weeks.
For some inspiration we were thinking of having our characters like living breathing being's such as the power of puppetry bringing objects to life. I really enjoy character design such as this and looked a lot into the art work of the video games of the 'Oddworld' series. They always design there characters from a biological type of view point if they lived in another world and had animal characteristics. Much like the puppets in 'The Dark Crystal' which I felt was strong if we were going down that route.
I even did some simple character designs of the tall and small how we thought our characters could look like since it is early stages.
Here's us even having a chat about different types of fairy tales of our characters and fables based around the idea of puppet scale and how we would create them. Another idea that we would probably like to make in the future if not for this project. (Character drawings drawn by Deborah)
Eventually we had so many ideas and different types of stories, characters and plots that it all got very over whelming. We sort of hit a brick wall for a while but this was near the time of getting a tutorial with Ellie. We explained our ideas and concept and that we were considering making normal hand puppets instead since the pressure and time constraints of stop motion/animatronics was to much.
As well as all our ideas and characters we thought about doing films about. On the side for a laugh we kept talking about how funny it would be to make puppets of our selves. And Ellie thought this was a great idea and suggested we just make the project about ourselves instead of all these weird characters and creatures.
Some sketches I did for cartoony looking puppets.
This was a very positive tutorial and let me and Mark feel a lot better of the direction of the project. So we decided to do some tests with different materials to make some simple puppets.
To our horror and hilarity Mark started to cut up the Mickey Mouse toy to see how it was made from the inside with the intention of making it into a person. Instead he destroyed Mickey Mouse and ended up sitting with his decapitated head for a couple of hours not really sure where to go from there.
It was pretty funny and made some type of progress with it considering it let us see how he was made on the inside. I made a paper puppet in the mean time to just try out some stuff with limb joints and for something simple of myself. Then eventually a simple paper one that's mouth can move with wires and pins in a simple style.
I also made a simple type puppet out of plastic bottle ends, cardboard and taping them together then I could put my hand inside and make a simple talking mouth.
This is just early stages at this point till we both try a bit more with materials such as fabric or ways to shape a bigger moving puppet head. We will continue this process and see if we can create some puppet heads that look like ourselves.
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