Building A Better Hedge Knight: Part 2

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Dennis

Yesterday I got my stop-motion puppet roughed in and today I need to add some feet to it. I cut basic shapes out of cardboard and hot glue them to the foot dowel, but unfortunately, since I have no actual plan to work from, (I kinda just make things up as I go) I am completely at a loss as to what to do next…

I look around my studio and find some scuzzy old modeling clay that is left over from a previous project. I use it to shape up the top part of the feet. (If any of you are old Mort Drucker fans you might recognize where my feet come from.)

Ok, that worked pretty well, but now there is another problem. This clay is not the kind that ever dries and it’s a bit oily. Any kind of fabric material I put directly on top of that clay will immediately become all splotched and greasy looking. What to do? I decide at this point the best thing I can do is go to the kitchen to get something to eat and… hey… how about Kitchen Plastic Wrap?! I wrap the feet and they are now ready to be finished up.

I like the way the top of the feet look, but they are pretty flat. They need a bit more depth to them, so I hot glue some scrap wood to the bottom of each foot to get the volume I need. I then sew fabric around all of it, add some Sculpey painted armor and I’m done.