8thWonderStudio
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I just visited your thread over at the Stopmo Forum and am totally blown away! Please start a thread of your progress here. Your Mighty Joe Young is a thing of beauty!
Nick
I will definitely do so. Right now I'm experimenting with muscle contraction, stretching, different densities of foam, etc. There's no blueprint for what Marcel Delgado did with his puppets (as there is with the armature), so it's purely guess work and experimentation at this point. I've attached a couple of photos of Marcel's Joe musculature. It looks amazing.....I wish there was some better reference available. At any rate, this is the level of sophistication I'm going for.
BTW, there was a seventh Joe puppet....a large half-body ape built from the waist up only. As far as I know, it was never actually used in the film. There is picture of it below. It can be seen in the background of an I Love Lucy promotional episode, along with a 16" Joe puppet that Desi picks up while holding a lit cigarette. He mistakenly refers to it as Kong.