Dragon Puppet - First Steps

After a week of vacation, I decided to take on a big project: making a large dragon puppet out of a model for a large T-Rex head. One of the perks of having a studio at the McGuffey is getting to work around a bunch of very generous people and I happened to come across this dinosaur model in our free pile.

I decided to use the plastic skull base as the form for my dragon head.

The first major obstacle was engineering a mechanism to allow the head to be "worn" on a puppeteers hand. This required making some large holes, inserting padding and working with elastic to achieve a comfortable fit.

Next step, adding on horns, ears and other anatomy, after which I will get to make the dragony skin!