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Advanced Patterning for Puppetry

Alex and Olmsted

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A follow up video to our Creating Flat Patterns for Puppetry: Creating Flat Patterns for Puppetry

This method works best when you build with L200 foam (or EVA foam), or cardboard. Using a rigid material like this will create sharper angles and a stronger structure.

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This video was made in part as a distance learning tool for The University of Maryland.

19 Comments

@ashberg5011 1 year ago

"work outside in the fresh air" i think is the best clip from this video. Thanks for the excellent production. Can't wait to check out the rest of your channel.

@robertwesterfield3454 2 years ago

Really nice video. Thank you.

@krisgeringer3853 1 year ago

Thank you so much for this video! Amazing job explaining it

@jennifergeorgia5445 4 years ago

This is terrific! I love the spiral cuts on the cheeks. I want to try that on some clothing pattern drafts for ... um... other rounded protuberances.

@OldManStan 5 years ago

Lovely work and a really well presented tutorial :)

@iredactionable 10 months ago

But how do you decide where the lines belong in the first place? And I can't cut this off a human model.

@stephaniexyz3781 4 years ago

Thank you so much for this tutorial!!!

@gkline8288 4 years ago

Fantastic loved the video!

@ZenSpaceTurtle 6 years ago

Fantastic work! I wish I found this a week ago when I was trying to figure out how to do this on my own.

@gorey24fm 3 years ago

F***ing brilliant! Than k you!

@joseantonioscorner 11 months ago

This was the best tape-on-method how-to I've seen, period. I know it's been sometime since this post but... after watching your video I got answers to many of my questions; however, how do you cut the tape-on-method pattern, to make it flat, on the transition sections that, for example, go from the neck and curve up under the chin/snout, or from the back of the neck up onto the back of the head; that short, transitional, reversed, curved section?

@puppetmaggie 6 years ago (edited)

wait! what the heck was that moment with the red pen thing? I lost you there. also love the little self doubt moment

@Ziggy_stardust124 5 years ago

This is so amazing could you maby tell me what kinds for foam are best to use

@JayFiggyy 8 months ago

I’m worried about the fabric constantly

@thecucufate 2 years ago

Dope. So was this for demonstration only, or are you planning on using this as a real puppet? Wondering how you would put fabric on something like this, or color it.

@RussellTucker-mb9ff 1 year ago

Can you explain the reasoning behind the spiral in the cheeks? I work at a puppet shop and no one I showed this video to had ever seen that. Rounded shapes = darts or banana peels. How do you determine how big the spiral goes?

@BradFeeser 2 years ago

Nice work! About to start this new art form... but these Bevel cuts are confusing. I understand "outside" or "Inside" bevel cuts, but how do you decide the degree / angle of the bevel? And those darn Darts! Why isn't there a 3D app that can tell us where to make the cuts?