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Kevin Knight
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FrogBoy,
Wow you weren't kidding! He arrived this morning, and forgot there's no satin liner even packaged up. The only this that was an understatement is Animal is HUGE! The thing is a monster! WOW! Yeah I found alot of imperfections in the making of him. But also alot of nice touches. In trying to close the mouth the metal skeleton unline kermits is not in the entire bottom lip, it seems to be directly under the tounge, so when you try to close the mouth the tounge raises with the bottom mouth fabric, and the bottom lip hangs a good half inc lower. Alot of exposed glue on the chin hairs (not the feathers) Was impressed how each feather was hand plugged though. Things you know beforehand but don't appreciate until you see it. Think some hairspray to the eyebrows for that twisted look might be an idea. Because the puppet character is either flinging his arms around running or drumming, or in that hunched, heavy breathing mouth barely open with almost closed eyes thing he does. I find it to be very difficult to pose him in a way that makes him look like himself. My problem is hating all the poser photographs, and trying my hardest to make Kermit look like his puppet counterpart we see in llive action. I have done a pretty good job trying to replicate the fabric to appear as if there's a hand in his head, and how his arms and hands are with puppeteering sticks attached. (The creased elbows, and wrists) I don't neccesarily know what I'm doing with Animal. Which also may be due to me really only paying attention to Fozzie and kermit my whole life. But I do give him 3 3/4 stars out of 4. He's friggin huge, his color appears natural to the character, his teeth, and eyelids are great. The tounge I'm toying with cutting in half. Clothes are awesome. Maybe I need to do some serious mushing. I can also see where the collar makes a big difference with the long neck. I have him bent at the neck with the head tilted up. I'll take some pics and post them in the Animal picture thread before the end of the week.
Kevin
Wow you weren't kidding! He arrived this morning, and forgot there's no satin liner even packaged up. The only this that was an understatement is Animal is HUGE! The thing is a monster! WOW! Yeah I found alot of imperfections in the making of him. But also alot of nice touches. In trying to close the mouth the metal skeleton unline kermits is not in the entire bottom lip, it seems to be directly under the tounge, so when you try to close the mouth the tounge raises with the bottom mouth fabric, and the bottom lip hangs a good half inc lower. Alot of exposed glue on the chin hairs (not the feathers) Was impressed how each feather was hand plugged though. Things you know beforehand but don't appreciate until you see it. Think some hairspray to the eyebrows for that twisted look might be an idea. Because the puppet character is either flinging his arms around running or drumming, or in that hunched, heavy breathing mouth barely open with almost closed eyes thing he does. I find it to be very difficult to pose him in a way that makes him look like himself. My problem is hating all the poser photographs, and trying my hardest to make Kermit look like his puppet counterpart we see in llive action. I have done a pretty good job trying to replicate the fabric to appear as if there's a hand in his head, and how his arms and hands are with puppeteering sticks attached. (The creased elbows, and wrists) I don't neccesarily know what I'm doing with Animal. Which also may be due to me really only paying attention to Fozzie and kermit my whole life. But I do give him 3 3/4 stars out of 4. He's friggin huge, his color appears natural to the character, his teeth, and eyelids are great. The tounge I'm toying with cutting in half. Clothes are awesome. Maybe I need to do some serious mushing. I can also see where the collar makes a big difference with the long neck. I have him bent at the neck with the head tilted up. I'll take some pics and post them in the Animal picture thread before the end of the week.
Kevin
