Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, Panda

Panda

Panda Puppet

Plasticine Mouth, fast cast teeth, held in place with magnets to head core.

Test Cast

This is how the puppet was set up in the mould

Test cast painting into the mould with the two colours. Painting the mould with Ecoflex 00-30 silicone pigmented with white and dark brown black. Then assembling the mould with a basic wire armature and Plastazote body before injecting the mould with Ecoflex 00-30silicone.






This how the puppet was set up in the mould. A layer of wax was applied to the surfaces, so that a coloured skin could be painted into the mould after the main body silicone had been cast. The body core was sculpted in Plastazote and snipped upholstery foam

Cleaned up

  

The body was cast in two layers of Silicon, Ecoflex 00-30 core and Dragon Skin Pro skin, to give a soft flexible puppet with a durable skin.

Right Paw

I made a 2 piece injection mould in Ali Fast Cast for each Paw.The armature was simple with a twisted wire across the fingers and steel plate across the palm to be rigged through.
I lined the mould with a thin layer of plastaline then injected the core with Ecoflex 00-30. Once this was cured, cleaned the mould and then injected the mould with Dragon Skin FX Pro.
(The imagine is after it had been painted and given a protective coating)