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Negaduck9 — Janken Fraggle puppet
Published: 2012-08-11 02:21:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 3618; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 25
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For the past something months I've been working on a puppet of my Fraggle Rock OC, Janken. Well, here he is! There are still a few tweaks I want to make, like making his hair a little more symmetrical when seen from the front, and I haven't yet got a jacket for him, but he's nearly there.This is my first puppet in over 20 years, and my most ambitious one ever. I made a lot of mistakes while making this, starting with using cheapo fleece instead of Antron. There's lots of room for improvement. Still, not too bad for a first effort, eh?
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20 years? wow. Can't really tell it's been that long, he looks great. Makes me wish I could make a Fraggle puppet. Maybe one day.
You'll have to make a Scooter Puppet now to go along with him so he won't get lonely.
You made him out of cheap fleece instead of Antron. What kind of cheap fleece did you use? I know some have gone to polar fleece since Antron is no longer being sold.
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Heh, I have thought of making a Scooter puppet! However, there's one other I want to make before I tackle him; sort of a warm-up.
I just used cheap fleece that happened to be the right color and on sale at Hobby Lobby for about $3 a yard.
As for Antron, it IS being sold, it's just very hard to get. The only known reliable supplier in the US ts GA. Stage... which happens to be not far from where I live. If they were on the bus line I'd have showed up on their doorstep. I talked with their rep for a while on the phone, and she said that they only got Antron shipments in every few months. Anyhow, I've already got a few yards on order.
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After seeing your photos of Janken, it really really really makes me want to attempt to make a Fraggle as well. If I decide to challenge myself to do this during the cold season, could I possibly ask you for some pointers if I get stumped?
Hobby Lobby, I think there is one about a 25 mile drive from my house... hmmmm... would they have everything I'd need in one trip for materials? (Like fur, hair, foam, fleece, eyes, string, etc.)? Of course, I'd need to get a sewing machine too, any good models?
Probably be best if I went with the cheap fleece for experimenting/first-time sort of thing, then if I got good enough at it, get some of the Antron fleece, since it's probably a lot more expensive for the good stuff.
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Get everything you need at one place? Not likely! I got the fleece at a cloth shop, the feathers at Hobby Lobby, more feathers on Amazon, the foam at a different cloth shop, the eyes and arm rods online, the fur online elsewhere, the contact cement and gasket rubber (for the mouth plate) at Home Depot, the stick-on felt for the mouth and eyelid line and the florist wire for the hands and eyes at Michael's, the batting in the arms and legs at... well, I don't remember, probably some cloth shop. You can abbreviate a lot of this, though, if you're not getting all perfectionistic. You can use cheap fake fur, buy cloth-shop fleece, make arm rods out of regular rods or even umbrella rods, use fake fur instead of feathers for hair, etc.
The main thing you need, however, is patience, and the knowledge that you're gonna make mistakes and do a lot of learning on your first puppet. Just about everything in the final puppet is a second draft; I'd make it once, see that I didn't like this or that about it, and try again until I got something I was pleased with. Make your first puppet out of cheap materials, and when you get more confident move on to the 'spensive stuff.
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I love this! at first, I thought it was a replica fraggle whatnot (background fraggle). Great Job!
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Thank you! I don't think there were any all-purple Fraggles in Fraggle Rock. I didn't give him an odd color scheme on purpose, it just sorta happened.
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I saw this and thought...."Now what Fraggle is that?....Not one I know for sure.".....lol Definitely could've been one though.
Super job!
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Heh, thanks. Yeah, he's my own character. I wasn't silly enough to try to make one of the established characters; if I screwed one of those up it'd look so bad. But maybe my next try will be a brand-name character.
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I don't know.....you'd have more rights over OC's I would think.
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But it'd be so awesome to make a Sidebottom replica!
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Yea, that would be a good one.
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This is so awesome my eyes rolled out of my skull.
You've done a great job on this! I can so much imagine Janken being in Fraggle Rock as a main character. :3
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Thank you! Heh, he's a major character in my stories, but isn't in Fraggle Rock often. He lives in Outer Space, which explains the denim jacket.
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wow. He's just so... real. I'd love to see him in action. It'd be hard to tell him apart from the workshop's fraggles.
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Oh, if you put him next to a true Henson Fraggle you'd see lots of difference, starting with his seamed, cheap-fleece skin. But if people look at him and see a Henson-worthy Fraggle, I'm happy. (VERY happy!)
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I see a very Henson-worthy Fraggle, nearly exploding with character and story!
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Thank you! I've certainly written him into a number of stories already.
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Hours of work with foam, contact cement, fur, fleece, and feathers. Lots of false starts!
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Oh .. wow... FANTASTIC WORK!!! I think you have some Henson in your blood somewhere... seriously, good job!!!
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Thank you! Henson blood? I dunno, were any of them Red Cross donors?
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Ostrich feathers. Glad you like the hair, because you would be amazed how long it takes to sew feathers as hair! Oy.
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This just makes me once again want to try getting practice building something like a MST3k bot puppet; probably a Servo, because there's a candy store near my house that sells his head.
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His body is a barrel of monkeys. I think somewhere there are instruction manuals for building the bots.
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Actually it's a bank, but close enough.
Oh, no doubt. Problem is, so many of Tom's parts aren't produced anymore, I think you gotta order them specially made; like the engine block. And I don't have a job yet.
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I know that Crow's body started out as a Tupperware floralier, and when Tupperware stopped making those they had to... IIRC, cast and make them or something.
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Speaking of hard-to-get Bot parts, where would one get Gypsy's car seat head these days? I know that somewhere in my house there's a flashlight like the one they used for here eye.
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Heck if I know. I'd be surprised if that car seat was even being made now. If you find the model, I'd suggest searching Ebay for it.
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God I wish I had disposable income to waste on stuff like that.
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If you're an artist, you don't consider the building blocks of your craft a waste.
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It's hard to think that way when artistically, I have the hands of a prizefighter. Wearing the gloves.
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nice work! i love it, and purple is one of my fav colors!
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Thanks! Purple is not an easy color to find in fleece, feathers, and fur, lemme tell you!
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Totally looks like he came out of the Muppet Workshop!
He looks amazing. Nice job so far.
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Wow, thanks! That's the look I was going for.
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And what a fine job you did!
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