The Spinner's Cave- Final Project

The begining and the end

Here they are, Clotho and Atropos. Two down, one more to go...

The head is just like my other stop motion puppets: detachable and can be moved around. I thought being the last and most sinister of the spiners Atropos had to have a little more manouverabliity.

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Atropos-nearly done

 Just need to finish and make the head...

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The Third Spinner: Atropos

Skiping ahead to the last spinner. I was in poundland I was able to find a pair of scissors, cheap and super low quality; in other words, perfect...

Once carving up the scissors a bit It's of course time to start with the sculpey again...

And it doesn't matter the colour. I plan to paint over it.

Clotho, the First Spinner

I didn't have a camera during the first parts of the making of Clotho. It's basically a plasic garden stick with a sculpey upper body. I didn't have that clearly defined an idea of what I wanted like the other designs so it was very much made up as it went along. I wanted something vaguely sinister so she would fit in a little more with the other two which are quite grotesque. I do actually wish I had a camera before since I found the plain unpainted white was far more unsettling than the painted version. It's something to with how the depth appears a little distorted and affects the stare.

Begining to sculpt the second spinner. Decided to jump back to clotho and finish her.

Inspiration for a more ancent Greek look for the first spinner turned up this.  Images of youths aren't as common so this carved relief on the tombstone of a young girl (c450–440 B.C) is perfect. Image and interesting information Courtesy of the Met Museum.

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I'm actually quite tempted to leave her bald. Like a newborn baby which would fit since she represents the begining and the handing out of the thread...

She stilllikes to chase after feet...

Starting to add the sheep whool.

I have a ton of pins. Seemed like a fitting touch though, they're unfortunately not the most visible...

Now with some yarn wrapped around we're all done!

Digital practice

Trying to get better with photoshop...

Wayang Kulit and Wayang Golek

Wayang is the name given to the art of theatre in Indonesia from live to masked theatre to puppetry. Wayang Golek is the name given to the art of a certain kind of puppet theatre while the Wayang Kulit deals with a form of shadow puppetry. They are particularly popular art forms in Bali and Java.

Wayang Kulit
The puppets of these puppets are traditionally made from the hide and horn of buffalo, the buffalo horn used for the rods that manipulate the movements of the puppets body and arms which is what the hide is used for. It is a very old form of puppetry dating back to the 800's.

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Wayang Golek
Hand carved from wood and exquisitely decorated are the puppets of the Wayang Goleck. I actually got to see some of these at my old high school (la Chat). They were always on display along the hall to the theatre department which I now realise just how fitting that was. I do hope they are still there now.

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 King of the vultures (dated c1970)

there's a fantastic gallery of images that briefly explains some of the traditional puppets and characters you can find here.

As well as a good guide on how they make the puppets here. At the beginning of the following video you can see a little of how the leather is carved: