MINIATURE GLOWING PUPPY PUPPET

hey let's Barnaby Dixon here so this is my most recent puppet that I actually only finished building a couple of days ago this one is a dog of course but I actually have been working on the concept of a four-legged puppet that's operable in this way for about two years so here's some footage of me messing around in 2017 with the concept at that point I didn't know whether it was gonna be a bear or a wolf but eventually I settled on dog because partially because of this tail here that I designed is so expressive and doglike that that kind of made sense and also there's a diversity in the appearance of dogs and I figured that give me a bit of creative license also dogs have some very recognizable mannerisms that would be really fun to play off for example you could have him playing with a toy scratching himself yawning taking a dump and wiping it on the floor there's lots of reference material on YouTube for that last movement in particular the reference material proved really useful Ashley because I've wrongly assumed that dogs walk like this where they move the opposite limbs together when in fact they move more like this so in fact only one leg steps at any one time there's probably a little bit of overlap but that's generally the case but I didn't know that before let's talk about mechanisms now so the ears can move you can move them together or independently and that's useful for like if he's heard something the mouth will open and close like this the tongue sticks out as he does that can you see that and that's useful for come up barking the legs are built out for my fingers so they have these kind of realistic articulations see what I mean like kind of like the dinosaur puppet and also like the dinosaur puppet actually the tail has these this kind of segmented quality but because this one's attached to my thumb I have a bit more control over it which is lovely the body has this it's kind of slinky design which is really fun to kind of exaggerate and play around with and of course this puppet glows in the dark so I've got to show youth what it looks like with the lights out Wow look at that it's like lighting up the space check out the the reflection - what check out the years ready you see it just makes the outline so much clearer it's lovely yeah I'm humping the it may be nice Wow how we could do this as well ready so what's next with this puppet well I imagine he'll feature in future videos of mine so do feel free to subscribe and hit notifications down below if you'd like to follow me on these various other social media platforms I do post bits and pieces there and if you'd like to support the work that I do here is a link to my patreon account and if you fancy doing that thanks very much you can also support this video and the work that I do by sharing it with with a friend or a family member that you think I appreciate it and I'd appreciate that too thanks very much [Music]

Channel: barnabydixon

Views: 3,279,955

Keywords: puppet, puppetry, puppeteer, dog, puppy, glowi, uv

Id: k-IHbm5cvQg

Length: 3min 53sec (233 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 25 2019