All you budding puppet builders here is the latest competition from project puppet. All the details can be found here at www.puppetcontest.com . All entries must be entered before 15th October 2011. There are $400USD dollars worth of prizes so get your creative juices flowing and enter now. This is a great opportunity for newer puppet builders to get their work seen by the puppet community - and I have returned as a judge , and I can't wait to see all the great designs. Turn on the Time Machine and may the most creative win .
Friday, September 16, 2011
PROJECT PUPPET CONTEST 2011
All you budding puppet builders here is the latest competition from project puppet. All the details can be found here at www.puppetcontest.com . All entries must be entered before 15th October 2011. There are $400USD dollars worth of prizes so get your creative juices flowing and enter now. This is a great opportunity for newer puppet builders to get their work seen by the puppet community - and I have returned as a judge , and I can't wait to see all the great designs. Turn on the Time Machine and may the most creative win .
BABY PROJECT
Hi everyone, I have recently started a project with a fellow artist Eric Scales. Eric is one of the best character artists I have seen and really love checking out his work - you can check it out here
ERIC SCALES SKETCHBOOK . We decided to work together on a project and create a puppet from one of Erics designs. The design is a baby boy - full body . I left the design up to Eric and as you can see in the sketches he sent he is quite a character. He will have two removable arm rods, entry will be from the back of the body and he will have an eyebrow mech which will enable him to go from cute to angry like any real child :)
Monday, September 12, 2011
STAR TREKKING
Here is my latest Ebay puppet, hope you like him. He is a self obsessed Star Trek fan who has just returned from the San Diego Comic Con . CLICK HERE to go to the listing and see a short video
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
making of a recent puppet
Below are a few photos of a puppet I recently built for sale on Ebay. I was going to take more photos but got carried away and forgot. but you can still see a little of how he was built.
ABOVE: The body - to give a stripey effect 24 separate pieces were sewn together. The body has a cone shape to it so all pieces are on a slight angle to create the cone shape. A similar design was made for the structure of the body , in the structure cone three "hoops" of boning was used to keep the round shape.
ABOVE: Head and Eyes - Head has a reticulated foam skull , the nose has wadding and a light weight ( teddy bear beads) in the tip of the nose to give it some weight. The eyes were custom made by joining two spheres together then a 5 layer spray paint. Ears and hair was added later.
ABOVE: Arms - The arms were made the same as the body with strips of fur sewn together. The arms were left empty to give a floppy look , the hands were made from reticulated foam wire wire inside so they are posable.
ABOVE : Nosey Monster - Finished product. This puppet was made from 40 separate pieces of fur to give the stripey effect. A lot of pre planning goes into designing and patterning puppets such as Nosey Monster.
ABOVE: The body - to give a stripey effect 24 separate pieces were sewn together. The body has a cone shape to it so all pieces are on a slight angle to create the cone shape. A similar design was made for the structure of the body , in the structure cone three "hoops" of boning was used to keep the round shape.
ABOVE: Head and Eyes - Head has a reticulated foam skull , the nose has wadding and a light weight ( teddy bear beads) in the tip of the nose to give it some weight. The eyes were custom made by joining two spheres together then a 5 layer spray paint. Ears and hair was added later.
ABOVE: Arms - The arms were made the same as the body with strips of fur sewn together. The arms were left empty to give a floppy look , the hands were made from reticulated foam wire wire inside so they are posable.
ABOVE : Nosey Monster - Finished product. This puppet was made from 40 separate pieces of fur to give the stripey effect. A lot of pre planning goes into designing and patterning puppets such as Nosey Monster.
Hope this have given you a small insight into how I produce my puppets.
Have a great day
Jarrod
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
NOSEY MONSTER
WOW seems I can't keep up lately with Ebay puppets - Luckily I had this one made in advance. Check him out CLICK HERE have a great day
Monday, August 22, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Jarrod Boutcher Puppets Update
Just a quick thank you to all who have recently contacted me for your patience, I have recently been extremely busy building puppets and haven't really had the time to sit down and reply to as many emails as I would like. I have recently been making many client orders - also I like to keep my Ebay puppets going as I know its a great way for puppeteers and fans to get an original puppet at a great price. I have also just finished a secret puppet order for one of my most favourite muppeteers - more on that when I can. Towards the end of the year I will be having a break from puppet building to let my brain relax. I am also working on a project to help new puppet builders build their own puppets which I am very excited about.
Also thank you to all those who write fan mail about my work , it's always encouraging to hear that you guys like my work - keeps me going when somedays I just don't feel like being covered in stray pieces of fur :) Have a great day
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
YOUTUBE videos
Hi guys , slowly moving all my puppet videos to one channel on youtube CLICK HERE if you want to see whats on there so far
NEW Fozzie Bear replica
Hi guys , just a quick post - as some may know I started a Fozzie Bear replica a few years ago but was never really happy with it so I scrapped him. Recently I have some spare time to work on a new and improved Fozzie which I am much happier with . I think he will get finished eventually as I actually like this version of Fozzie. Have a great day
Friday, August 5, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
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