Fish Puppet so far

For my Final Major Project I decided to make a fish puppet and wanted it to move. 

I wanted to use a piece of fish work from the diagnostic project as the basis.

This is was inspired by Bridget Riley’s style of work.

My Bridget Riley inspired fish

These are two areas that I explored and managed to do some development on before Vernon Street was closed.

3D Puppet

After looking at different ways of creating a frame that could move, I used Illustrator to design a fish skeleton and laser cutting to create it. I managed to get to this stage.

Laser cut fish made with mountboard

Bookbinding spring holds pieces together/ allows movement

Spring from a bound sketchbook

My plan was to look at designing different shaped fish and re-create them using different laser cut materials (e.g. acrylic, ply) and then also look at creating different coverings as skin, so that I had a skeleton style and a skin on version.

Shadow Puppet

I used Illustrator to design a fish and backgrounds to create shadow puppets. The prototypes were cut out with the laser cutter.

Positives

Positives

Positives

Negative fish

Background

Negative background over negative fish

 My intention was to develop different shaped fish and backgrounds and use the OHP and lighting studio to create videos.

I now need to re-think what is possible and re-plan to suit.