Making Tentacles for a Stop Motion Puppet

The stop motion puppet I'm designing will have six tentacles. I sculpted one tentacle and made a two piece mold of it.

From the two molds I made six sets of latex skins. Six top sides and six bottom sections to cover the finished tentacles.

The tentacles were made by taking a section of aluminum wire and wrapping it in cotton string. I tacked the string in place with a bit of liquid latex rubber.

The thicker portion of tentacle that attaches to the body of the creature was built up with sections of foam rubber.

Then after dabbing on a bit of liquid latex I began wrapping the entire tentacle with athletic foam wrap.

Here is a top section of the latex skin for the tentacle fresh from the mold.

Here I'm test fitting the skin to one of the foam wrapped wire tentacles.

Next post I'll begin assembling the tentacles.

Christmas In July Sale

I'll be taking part in Etsy's Christmas in July sale between the dates of 7/14/2011 through 7/24/2011. Use the coupon code at checkout to take 30% off your purchase price. I also liked to mention that a couple pieces of my sea themed artwork are in these two fishing inspired treasuries: Musings of a Fisherman's Wife by fiiimac on Etsy Gone Fishing! by WhisperingOak on Etsy