In which Gabe starts building the maquette.

Today I started putting together my sculpting armature. This is what I'm going to build my sculpey maquette on. This maquette will then be used to create a mold, after which I will cast the puppet in silicone (at least, I think it'll be silicone. Not sure yet).
I also sculpted the face out of sculpey. The lower part of the mouth is a removeable piece, which can be either positioned in different ways or replaced with other mouth pieces to create animated movement. We'll see how that goes.
Here is my my design for the puppet:




And here is the sculpture for the head!
I'm pretty pleased with how it came out: