(DJ Khaled voice) ANOTHA ONE. This is Cleo and I made him during the summer of 2019!! Still had no idea what I was doing so he was very educational lol but he regardless turned out very cute and animateable. His face is actually blank, so you can add eyes/eyebrows/mouths either with paper, plasticine, or with a 2D overlay. he's about 10" tall without his ears.
Ramblings about the whole process below!
This was my first like...short-furred puppet? Turns out that minkie is a nightmare to work with because the pile is so short that it gets EVERYWHERE as soon as you start cutting into it lol, the more we know. The wire I used for his body is a LOT more heavy duty than Roy's, so he's loads easier to handle and move. I don't remember what possessed me to use another kind of wire for his tail (I think I thought it'd be maybe too stiff), but I used some other piece of garbage wire and it was awful, the tail's barely moveable and it was hell to animate with.
This was the first time I tried working with latex fingers; I really had no idea what I was doing so I didn't even tint the latex lol I just painted over it afterwards (you can see the peeling/cracking starting to show), but I still had a blast trying it! Usually you apply it in layers to do a buildup process but I was impatient and just dipped the fingers lol.
He has rigging holes in his feet since I'd made him for a test portfolio (we do group films in 3rd year of my program and there's ONE group for stop-mo; so you need to make a puppet and do some anim exercises to prove you're insane enough to want to join the group)
