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Hair Test 2-

Wool Roving & Wire

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For this test I tried to make hair by twisting some Beige natural wool roving between two thre

stainless steel wire, whilst trying to make the wire hidden as its only being used so I can try to a

01. 02.

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First of all I got a long piece of wire and folded it in half so I could hook one end onto my home

twisting tool. Next, twisted the two loose ends around a pin and then placed a piece of wool betwe

This was a little tricky but once I felt the wool was nicely centred between the two pieces, I pulled t

twisted it with the Dremel. Figures 4 & 5 show the results.

03.

04.

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I tried this method a few more times with varying amounts of wool to see how it would look. On

though, if the wool slipped out at any point, it wouldnt get twisted between the wires which mean

show on the outside of the wool. This needed to be fixed.

06.

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Next I tried including some PVA glue into the mix. On another note, I noticed that thick bits of sil

easily at all, so I had to re-think my plan about the characters bodies. This will be explored in the

the puppets bodies.

08.

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With the PVA glue, I cut a piece of wire like before, this time I coated one of the halves in the glu

wool onto that strand so it was already in place when it came to twisting.

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Once I had a few strands ready, I gathered the tools and the tester scalp.

18.

17.

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I used the same method to insert the hair as in Hair Test 01, I made a hole with a cocktail stick, th

ready with the dental tool.

20.

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Image 22. shows the dental tool I use, its small but has a textured flat end which is perfect for pus

the pore.

22.

23.

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This is how Hair Test 2 turned out. I was worried it would look like he has some kind of weird dre

think it looks too bad. The wire bends and holds its shape which is what I need. Next I will film m

by a hairdryer for animation reference, then test out the motion with some stop-motion animation

27.

28.

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On a final note....

Try not to accidentally place the drill down wher

is. It looks funny, but its a pain trying to find

amongst all that hair

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