Sunday 19 July 2009

Hands or rods?

I have been struggling with making a rod based skeleton to mount the undersized puppets on, and which will allow their manipulation from below with one hand. The idea being to have a mechanism that transfers the hand movements via rods to the puppet above. This is proving tricky.

The rods and hinges being used are not really of a high enough quality. This introduces play in the transfer of the movements, which in turn causes a loss of subtlety.


Some options are:
  • to carry on and perfect the mechanism by prototyping.
  • abandon this and revert to using direct hand control

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