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| | At Last, Foam Puppet Fabrication Explained! |
 | | Design, armature machining, sculpting, moldmaking and casting, painting and detailing, lighting and cinematography, and of course, performance animation, are the primary skills required to master this wonderfully magical art form. |
 | | Since armature parts can't be found anywhere, but have to be custom-made for any particular puppet, I then take each armature piece that makes up the armature itself (from the littlest finger all the way down to the toes) and do a detailed mechanical drawing, on graph paper, of each armature piece. |
 | | I just finished off an armature for a velociraptor which took me about four and a half weeks to machine, plus an additional week to figure out the mechanics of the armature and draw out each piece individually on graph paper. |
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