My piece for the Team Inkling @turfwarzine ! The book is sold out, with all proceeds going to the Child’s Play charity, which is amazing news!

idkmybffkenny-deactivated201901 asked: Hi, I'm in a beginning stop motion class this year. Right now we're using these weird bandages to make the 'skin' of the puppets but you can clearly see the edges of the wraps and what not. If you don't mind answering, I wanted to know what you used to skin your puppets and how they're so seamless looking.

Hi there! For the skin of my puppets I use a sports underwrap, which is like this really thin foam that comes in rolls in various colours. I use 3m super 88 spray glue to wrap layers around pieces of thicker foam which is glued to the armature wire. I sort of rip the edges of the pieces of underwrap to blend the seams more when I glue the final edges on. Hope that answer helps!

You might be interested in the book I made detailing exactly how I made my stop mo film THE CHAMP, which you can buy for $5 here https://gum.co/thechamp It goes into a lot more detail about every aspect of how I did things for that project