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Artisan's crafts - Crafting posable figurines.

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:iconpatt-ytto:
*Patt-Ytto Sep 21, 2012
I have a question to some of you folks.

I've made a few figurines with clay and some with wood and a few with other stuff, but all of them are not posable. This term i need to make a stop motion video and i was planning to use figurines, but i have no idea how to make them posable. Which materials to use, etc.

To be honest i would like to avoid usign plasticine (or putty variants) as much as possible, since i really don't like the smell and feel for sculpting with it.

any advice?
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:iconmaskedguardian:
=MaskedGuardian Sep 21, 2012
Sculpey sells a type of clay that stays bendy after you bake it. I'd use that with a wire armature underneath for added support. A hanger might be difficult to work with. Go to a hardware store and see if they have something thinner.
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*Patt-Ytto Sep 24, 2012
Thanks. I found the sculpy but here in mexico it's so expensive. I'll use DAS air-drying clay to build the body parts on top of the armature and then put some clothes on top to hide the joints. I found a thick tin wire that bends and doesn't break, so i'll use that one.
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~Glori305 Sep 21, 2012
If you are doing a stop motion video, something in the wallace and grommet type of thing, these are generally done with modeling clay (the type that does not get hard) over a wire armature.

If you want something that hardens, you can do a posable polymerclay by doing it over a wire armature and leaving the joints uncovered, then putting clothing over that, so the wire joints do not show.

You could also try ball joints.
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*Patt-Ytto Sep 21, 2012
I've been using DAS clay, the one that hardens with air, so a wire armature is probably what i'm going to do. Is there a specific kind of armature that works best without breaking no matter how much it's bent, or any coat hanger will do?
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~Glori305 Sep 22, 2012
I would use copper wire, and if it is going to take a lot of bending, the thicker the better.

I know several of the airdry's say not to use over an armature, since it can cause cracking, so I would recomend working in thin layers, let the layer dry, then put another layer over it, to try to avoid that.
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*Patt-Ytto Sep 24, 2012
I figured another thing i could do is wrap the base of the armature with tinfoil or styrofoam and then cover that with the clay. If it doesn't work in the end, i'll resort to using plasticine as much as it disgust me, the sculpy that doesn't dry costs quite a bit of coin over here.

I'll check out the copper wire. A friend also reccomended using thick tin wire, but it may break if i bend it a lot, so maybe copper wire will be a better option.

Thanks!
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