After receiving this information we started on research for our puppets I went home and researched the uniform of an English Zulu fighter, I also printed out pictures of Pandora’s face so I could get started on some drawings, and then research some images of zombies. I spent the evening doing some drawings to try and figure out where I wanted to go with this unit.
Some key points we needed to think about when designing our puppet e.g. a small back story, how the character died, where it died this influenced the decomposition of the body which in turn would change the colour of his skin, and any bloating.
The person we had picked out on Monday we could use their face for a guideline i.e. that face shape. I have used the pictures of Pandora I have printed out the other day I inked in her key features I laid thin paper on top and trace the outline, this gave me a good shape to get started on, I emphasised the cheekbones to give it more of a skeleton feel and exaggerated dents her head, I wanted to play around with the conventions of a zombie e.g. you need to hit them in the head to kill them, I did this by having the injury that had killed my character be a Zulu spear through the head.
We can’t use a wire frame inside the head as we have 2 cut the clay sculpture in half so we can mulled the two parts. We also got to work out the sizing of your puppet, it has to be one quarter of the body size. We then spent the rest of the day sculpting up our puppet heads.
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