I've been pretty quiet for a while, but I'm still working on the puppet.

Turns out, my first head wasn't viable, as it had fundamental proportion problems, most notably that the cheeks were too far forward. I didn't have enough clay and without me realizing it at the time, the model turned out egg-shaped, the jaw was off due to me having to work around the stalk of the light bulb, and the cheeks were the wrong profile. Dangit.

You can see me try to salvage the design and learn how the muzzle could be fitted, but it's obviously not going to work. The head is the wrong profile and muzzle is especially bad. This is due to my model, not because of how the foam was cut. It's time to start a new model, this time using a cardboard base (which also turned out to be a bad idea. Next time, I'll not be cheap and just buy more clay)!