Puppet Design

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Final Sugar Monster Design

Sugar 1

Here is the final Sugar Monster puppet design. The finished puppet is pink with lavender accents, not the the brown pictured here.

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Friday, November 02, 2007

Hershey's Kiss

Sugar 2

For some of the puppet designs I incorporated elements reminiscent of familiar candy and junk food. Notice that this Sugar Monster is shaped like an elongated Hershey's Kiss, with a big curl at the top of the head. I based the color on cotton candy.

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Female Sugar Monster

Sugar 3

I always imagined the Sugar Monster as a female character. In this puppet design I tried playing up the traditional female design characteristics, giving her full lips and large eyelashes. I also experimented with the horns, making them wavy and dragon-like.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Cute And Cuddly

Sugar 4

In this Sugar Monster puppet design my goal was to create a character that was cute and cuddly, but obviously wired. I thought it would be funny if the Sugar Monster was short and bouncy with a long tail.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Striped Candy Horns

Sugar 5

The client found Sugar Monster No. 1 the most appealing because of the cotton candy-like body and the striped candy horns. Using this illustration as a starting point, I developed a bunch of variations, playing with the shape of the nose, the color, and the scale of the body.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Sugar Monster Choices

Sugar 6

Here is a group of Sugar Monsters that I assembled for the client. When designing a puppet for someone else, it’s important to present them with a wide range of choices to help focus their vision of the character. These illustrations served as a starting point for the design process of the Sugar Monster.

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