How To Make A Mouth Plate and Grip - Part 2 - Puppet Building 101
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- A DIY step by step tutorial on how to make a mouth plate grip for your puppet.
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I know I'm a little late to the party but, I just recently discovered your channel and I love it. Great stuff across the board. Working on completing my first puppet right now. I actually used an old athletic warm weather sports glove for the grip. So when I say the puppet fits my hand like a glove it literally does lol.
Adam, I know these videos are a bit older but I just found them recently and I gotta say... Man! I really love the videos! They are so informative! I struggled so much at first getting training for how to build puppets! And these are wonderful guides to how it's done! I have really enjoyed your techniques and have learned a lot from the videos! My favorite? The hair tutorial with the glue! Man, I have struggled so much about how to make puppet hair! Yarn, doll wigs, some work, some do not. Well, thank you, my friend! The struggle is over! And thanks for sharing so much cool stuff! I know you have invested years of trial and error and experience into what we see now and I want you know that I appreciate it! Love the Little Shop stuff, too! Amazing! Thanks again, brother! I have a new level of excitement for puppets thanks to you! Please keep it up! Plus you're a cool guy! Excellent combination, man!
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These are incredible! Great pace and I love the "no-fuss" method to make awesome professional puppets!
Everything i have learned is from your videos and i have done 6 they look fantastic plus the client is happy!!
I absolutely love your tutorials. I have been gluing tampons on the inside of my mouth piece because they make for a wonderful grip when presenting, especially if my hands get sweaty for extended performances
These are such neat and helpful videos! I've been thinking about trying to make a puppet myself (not anything fancy, just something simple) and I had no idea where to begin, so this has been a life saver. : )
At first i thought that its just UA-cam but this is awsome my feelce covering kinda looks like yours this is my first puppet and it looks amazing because of your teachings. Thank you very much
Very helpful, I'm working on a puppet right now, who's head is big and I have already went an alternative way in building them. Thanks for the help
Elastic is a great idea. Definitely keeps your fingers snug together with the mouth plate. Great tutorials, as always!!
You are so good. Its so nice to find your profesional work and videos, with details that only a builder can discover and see. Thanks for share it!!! its very usefull for my hands and thought
Thanks for a awesome series. I really like your presentation style.
I'm having so much fun trying this. Never sewn ever before, but I'm trying it. Thank you sooo much man. Really.
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Thanks Adam for this. I like the elastics. What I have done recently is make 2 loops out of the 1/2 foam. Glue them down side by side in the top plate. Then I take fleece and wrap it tight on the top of the foam and bring it around the sides of the wood top plate. When I put my fingers in it is like the "live long and prosper" Vulcan grip.
Very VERY helpful! Looking forward to watching more of these!
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Thanks for sharing. I'm learning TONS. I'll get to apply some of those in an upcoming project that requires a very sturdy and easy to activate mouth, because the puppet is a cartoon horse, so the snout will be longer than my hand.
Here's one technique I found by experimenting: if you add TWO finger tubes or elastic grips in the bottom jaw, then you have a much more comfortable fit that is ambidextrous. Our thumbs aren't comfortable performing when forced to be centered. Let them be more to one side or the other, depending on your handedness.
Another tip: digital cameras have a VERY hard time with white or super light colored objects, they bleach out the detail.
So when you're showing something white, like when showing raw white foam or your vacuum forming pieces, adjust your camera to be darker for that time.
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I just posted a comment on your Facebook page, describing my idea of building a puppet from the inside out.
I followed your tutorial for building a sock puppet (frog puppet) to make a sleeve/mouth base.
Once I have this basic foundation, I can build the foam puppet over it.
My hand can slide into position quickly and easily.
This is great! I needed this one!
That's a brilliant idea with the elastic, thanks for sharing this
Happy to help!
Three GREAT options. For my puppets, instead of a permanent head plug, I have discovered that a firmly-stuffed, removable "brain pillow" is extremely effective. Plus, if made properly, it can be removed and laundered when necessary on well-used puppets.
Nice!
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Hi Adam! First, THANK YOU so much for taking the time to create these tutorials. I really had no idea where to begin constructing a puppet until viewing them. This is coming from a guy who can do everything from repairing turbine engines to building acrylic aquariums and everything in between. I have even sewn up a couple diy hammocks. Rather than buying things I like to make my own (anything and everything). Most of the time it doesn't save me any money but the shear enjoyment from the creative process is payment enough. With that said, I have recently been into 3D design and printing. I believe a 3D printer could really benefit this craft by manufacturing mouth pieces, eyes, noses, molds, and other miscellaneous items. Have you ever tried to use Kydex for the mouth plates? (It's the same stuff knife sheaths are molded from.)
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The way I do mouth plates are *kind of* a combo of all three: The plate itself is done with a kind of flexible plastic or cardboard that I then cover with fabric on both sides so that the cardboard doesn't become all gross and stuff. Then for the bottom plate i make a foam loop for my thumb. For the top I glue a thick piece of foam (or two thin pieces) right on top of the plate so your hand is gripping on top instead of being underneath.
Wonderful!
You're a hell of a teacher! Thanks!
You are excellent. Thankyou!
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You are a fabulous teacher! I am about to make a fairly large pig puppet. And a seal puppet and a English bull doll for a play . Wish me good luck!
Good luck! Post it on Instagram when you are done. I’d love to see it. Tag me @AdamKreutinger
good stuff... for a mouth plate I use the corrugated plastic or the red gasket rubber (1/16" for flexible, 1/8" for more rigid). I make the mouth plate then make a pattern for some fleece on the inside using the full plate as my stencil. Then I machine sew elastic to the fleece and either use contact cement or spray adhesive to stick it to the mouth plate for a grip.
I've used foam too for grip, but it wasn't my idea I got a pattern from project puppet. But in my puppets that I made from scratch myself I use a strap from craft felt.
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Really wonderful. I also want to be a puppet maker like you brother. I have much interest in this.
My sister and I made a piranha plant Mario puppet for a cosplay skit in 2019 and my sister came up with the idea to use a glove glued to the cardboard mouth plates she made that were inlayed with craft foam and felt and she said it was easier to move him around since he was massive in comparison to her arm. The glove made the mouth movements all that more easier while carrying him around. First puppet build for both of us but it was fun.
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Hello Adam! I was wondering if you could please show us how to make the flexible mouth plate, like in your frog puppets?
With mine I just use left over fleece to make a little loop for my thumb and the 4 fingers and hot glue them down
I love this...
Good job.
I like Cutting a glove and glueing it in.
That totally works.
Just to let you know that l am watching in 2018. Amazing. Thank you.
For me I take elastic and measure my fingers and mark it then glue it with super glue and it works pretty good and it was hard because I did it after I glued in the mouth plate
Dear anyone who can't wait till the fleece covering video.
Use the pattern you used for your foam skull to make a slightly bigger version of itself then. Assemble it as you did the skull. Then wrap it over the head.
Hope this helped
I have had The Foam Book for many, many years. Drew and Donald show the foam tube technique for mouth finger placement. I think this is one of the techniques the Muppets use. So I have been using the foam tube finger grip for years. Just another technique.
I have seen a lot of people do that. It’s not a technique I would recommend. That foam can break down easily and would absorb more sweat making it break down faster. I try to keep porous foam as far away from my hand as possible. But it works!
Thank you so much for your Tutorials. I worked my way up from your video with the clay Modell. But my puppet is kind a big. („Audrey two“ Phase 2) You said you would recommend a thin wood plate how thick should that be? The mouthplate is about 35cm long and 25cm wide.
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I either make a layer of foam and glue into the head above the mouth plate (Not on it) Or I make foam rings for your fingers to fit in there.
Those are both options. But I find that method does not last long. The foam breaks down fast.
Question, how do people make puppet lips? (Like the vowelles in Between the Lions)
are there any videos about adding different mechanisms inside the head?
Adam how do you tie the knot after stiching the whole plate?
Which grip would you advise for a miss piggy style mouth?
che figata! (what a cool idea)
Thanks!!!
I would love to make a moving eye brow rod puppet. can you make a tutorial in how to make those eyes? there is a specific character I want to replicate. if you know the animatronic band called the rockafire explosion, you might know a certain puppet character named earl who has moving eye brows. I am planning to make one of him but in order to do that, I need to know how to make the brows move like his. also is it even possible to make the puppets face scrunch up like how elmos face does it and miss piggy and Kermit? I love how those puppets are able to have diferent expressions just by scrunching their face up but I'm not sure if using hard plastic for a mouth plate would make the mouth as flexible
can I use e6000 glue to glue the elastic instead of sewing it on?
I use a combination of speed bumps and head plugs.
I have had success with cat litter bucket lids. I'm sure the sides will work, just need to be hit with a heat gun to straighten them.
A little late to the party, but is the headplug something you theoretically could/should do alongside one of the other methods? I feel like having the filling in the head would be good regardless?
Starting to look at puppet making and these videos are incredibly helpful!
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I am partial to the three foam tubes for the top of the mouth and one tube for the bottom (thumb). I saw this technique in an old book on making puppets. I think, for me, it is more comfortable. I used pipe insulating foam tubes. Pre-formed. Then just glue a reinforcing strip over the glued in tubes. My fingers find the tubes and slip in easily. Just another method.
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@@PuppetNerd I actually think it was 'The Foam Book' that mentioned the tube technique. Or, the big, giant secretive TV/Movie puppet makers. The book was published many, many years ago. I could probably find the authors if necessary. UA-cam did not exist when I started puppetry. We had to rely on books and our local Puppetry Guild. Verna Finley (and Mary Anne Taylor) taught me her vent dummy techniques. If you didn't know (I bet you do) Mary Anne made some of the vent dummies for Terry Fator (of America's Got Talent fame) Verna liked using solid carpet padding for the skull. Regular foam for everything else. Love your videos. Been watching them on and off all day. Thanks Adam.
How do you do the hole in the mouth for food?
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Great tutorial. I’d been having trouble finding useful ones on puppets. Do you have any suggestion of a material to use if you don’t have Rubbermaid bin lids lying around?
+Tess Clare: I will occasionally use 1/8 ply wood if I need a solid plate or for a really wide mouth that needs the structure.
You put the thumb plate in the direct center. do you feel that it might be better to for the thumb loop to be at an angle or on the left side because of the placement of the hand?
Either way I'm enthralled with your videos and I want to make a monster puppet for my kids.
I prefer it in the middle if I do it. To me it’s more comfortable and also then it could still be used by a left handed puppeteer. Honestly I typically don’t even put one in the bottom jaw. But if you do you can put it anywhere you want.
Iv been trying to find a replacement for my puppet as his mouth plate is broken inside but I can't find another and I don't know how to fix it, can you help please 😭
This is really cool! I’ve only really seen people use wood for the mouth plates, but would it be a good idea to 3d print the mouth plates instead?
I think it would be a waste to 3D print such a simple flat shape. You could cut it out in just a few minutes. Printing would take hours an probably not be as strong.
@@PuppetNerd yeah that’s true, thanks for your judgment!
I never bothered doing grips for mouthplates - I just use inch-thick foam for heads instead of half-inch: not only does it offer a little more snug fit on your hand, but it gives the head a little more strength and solidity. That being said, I *always* line the backside of the mouthplates, especially if I use cardboard, as that was one of the first mistakes I learned from: sweaty hands will damage and wear away cardboard mouthplates if not protected.
So what holds your hand to the plate? I'm not following you...
As I said, using inch-thick foam for the head instead half-inch gives the head a more snug fit around your hand which pretty much precludes the need for grips (at least for me) - the crease where the foam skull meets the mouthplate creates a bit of a natural grip/brace for the tips of your fingers to slip into. I suppose it would help to clarify this really only works well enough for small or more "average" sized heads (like shown in this video); for larger heads, then yes, I can see the necessity for grips.
Joseph Scarbrough it sounds like foam glued around the top and bottom of the mouthplatw on the inside, so you can slide your hand into it.
I've never tried to use thicker foam, but I have noticed that if I don't do a grip, at least for the thumb, my puppet does a whole lot of head flipping when talking. There is nothing to hold my hand to the plate on the bottom. But like I said, I never used 1" thick foam. and most of my puppets don't have much foam at all in their lower jaws.
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If I were to use your method to make a Kermit, would you still recommend a storage bin plastic mouth plate?
That would totally work.
Hey Adam! I want to make a puppet similar to Tony used on saturday night live by bill hader a couple years ago, and I am wondering how I would go about making the mouth as it is quite different than this style. Also, about how much would it cost to make a pretty basic puppet like this (buying all the materials needed to make it). Hope you can get back to me soon! thanks.
It would depend on which materials you plan to use. If I was you I would start out deciding on what’s the most amount of money you would be willing to spend. You need to make a budget.
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Do you have to make a grip
I’d bet you could use a plastic cutting board and cut it with a strong cutting tool or maybe scissors if it’s weak enough to use as a mouth plate
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Hi do you have just one mouth plate? As I made one from the end of video 1 so should I have put the elastic in the one that’s in or make another one with the elastic grip and glue it on top
Sorry. I’m not sure what you are asking.
@@PuppetNerd sorry it probably didn't make much sense. I made and put in a plastic mouth plate that you showed at the end of the first video of the green dude series but then in video 2 you talk more about mouth plates in relation to grips. I was just wondering if I wanted the elastic grip mouth plate I assume I should have done that when I first put the mouth plate in? It's not another plastic mouth plate with the grip on top of the one I've already put it? Thanks for getting back to me. I'm enjoying learning something new!
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I’m not sure what you are referencing.
Essentially, he is referring to speed bumps. @@PuppetNerd
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What is your opinion on speed bump grips?
I like them. Used it in this video. ua-cam.com/video/b_LCjL5iBE8/v-deo.html
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Hi! I know this is a very late question (and probably will not be answered, but I'll ask anyway). I need your opinion on what mouth plate grip I should use for the hand puppet, Audrey 2 (pod 2). Please comment back if possible :)
Any would work. It just depends on how you end up building it. Did you see my Little Shop puppet videos?
No, but I will check them out! Thank you very much!
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What is kermits mouth made of?
You’d have to ask Kermit.
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What way would you suggest so that my grandchildren’s hands fit in ok? Ages 5-10.
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