We began to look at the joints on limbs of various different puppets so that we could work out a system of making our own. We found that all of the examples were very similar in the way that they had been made/put together with only varying differences being the shape (i.e. if it was for an arm or a leg) and where the 'stopper' on the joint was which would restrict the movement so that the limb wouldn't bend the wrong way making it more human like.
Having studying these examples and seeing how they worker we went onto carving our own limbs out of Balsa wood. Having previously been mainly working with foam, I found the change to carving wood quite challenging. Its a very soft, light weight wood which makes it easy to cut into however this means it is also easy to dent and damage. I personally found it quite difficult to not carve out too much of the wood, it was very easy to slip and due to the layered nature of the wood it if fairly easy to end up peeling an entire layer of the wood off. It took much more practise than the foam carving for me to get an idea of how to do it but it was also very easy to sand down to perfect the shape of the joint so that it was easy to move and didn't stick.
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