I have been honored to be asked by Kanja Chen of Chensational Puppets to help him in building some puppets for his Chimp TV project. The first two are from a spoof of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” called “Ape the Debt Collector”. I am building Babs, a rather well endowed baboon, who is Ape’s wife, and Nan, Ape’s grandmother. Here are the initial sketches for them:

Here are some photos from the build so far:

Here is Babs’ “skull”.

This is a nice profile with some features pinned on. She’s looking just like the drawings which is always very exciting for me.

This is a rough mock-up of Nan’s head in polyfoam.

And this is the final head in reticulated foam.

Here are the basic puppets awaiting fabrication. Stay tuned for more…

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