Foot Armature

I thought I would do a post of how I made the armature for his feet. After taking some amazing information from Josh and Nathan Flynn's blog, which you can find here...

http://joshua-flynn.blogspot.co.uk/

http://nathan-flynn.blogspot.co.uk/

I then began building the armature!

I began my cutting 2 foot shapes out of a steel sheet, once i had the shapes I then cut about 1/3 way down from the toes, which would enable the front and the back of the foot to be separate. K+S was then glued with epoxy to the steel, which would enable wire to run through them to allow me to animate them.

I Also drilled holes in the front of the foot to allow a nut to be glued there for the use of tie downs. 

The good thing about using the steel foot would be that I am not restricted to using the tie down method. As steel is magnetic it would allow me to keep my puppet secure with magnets under my stage, eliminating the worry of having to drill in to my stage and causing a right mess!

Which I don't really need!  

Constructed foot with wire and heat shrink!