Online tutorial for making puppets?

[TheCheese]

not the bfx puppets but drawless animation puppets, i wanna make some videos but can't because i don't have puppets i can't and i found the drawless animation tutorial not very helpful for actually building the puppets, need help!

[WesScog]

What did you find unhelpful about it?

[rrh]

I think Schrab mostly found pre-existing toy puppets and modified them.

[TheCheese]

yeah what he said and i don't really have that many supplies or the budget to go out and buy supplies (because i splurged on the actual programs i needed) so i was wondering if anyone had any good (cheap) alternatives.

[TheCheese]

without modifying existing structures, forgot to add that

[ciwi286]

I made my puppet out of an old cake box we were throwing out and some cardboard. Go through your bin and see what you can find.

[rrh]

Cardboard, hot glue, sharpies. Kind of the whole point is you use whatever you can get. Old socks. Paper bags. Coat hanger wire is good for lots of things. I've made a couple creepy heads out of paper mache. And are you just ruling out modding toys for cost reasons? Because I've found pretty cheap toys in second-hand shops.

[WesScog]

yeah what he said and i don't really have that many supplies or the budget to go out and buy supplies (because i splurged on the actual programs i needed) so i was wondering if anyone had any good (cheap) alternatives.

He used trash. It's after Christmas, you should have a pile of cardboard boxes in your house the size of a small mountain, cut them up, use them.

Hot glue doesn't cost a lot, you can get a glue gun for like 3 dollars, and 2 dozen glue sticks for another 3 dollars.

It's not a major investment.

[speekerphone]

^ I saw a hot glue gun for 99 cents.

[Nonsensical studios]

I made a Drawless animation puppet. I made it out of cardboard, a cookie tin, a scarf, a sock, hot glue, and some string.

All you need is junk, something to hold it together, and some imagination

[TheCheese]

Thanks for the help.