Diego's Murdock

This is a fun character from a while ago. Murdock here is a really unique character that was a lot of fun to build.

This is a fantastic example of how interesting and distinct a character can be when created from our Simple Style puppet shapes. At his core, Murdock is a Simple Style Egghead puppet, with the live-hand monster-body variant.

Even from the early inspiration stages, this character had a really unique look and distinct personality which was a lot of fun to interpret and build.

Since this character was already so distinct, much of the design work had been done for us already. All we had to do was translate the design character into our Simple Style shapes.

It was a lot of fun working on this project and bringing this character to life.

Dan's Puppet- Past Work:

Here is another fun build we did a while ago:

This one was a unique challenge.  We ended up tailoring a sweatshirt into a live-hand arm for this character.  Which at the time, was the first time we had done something like that.

This character turned out to be several firsts for us.  This was the first time we shipped a puppet internationally, (though this didn't influence the build at all).  This was also marked the first attempt of our technology-assisted pattern making process, to create the skull for the puppet.  To get the shape we wanted, we modeled the head in a 3D software, and through some computer magic, we ended up with a pattern that made the head you see.

It turned out exactly like we wanted.
In retrospect, this method may have been better suited for a more complex shape.  However, we learned that we could use that process if we ever needed to make something particularly intricate.
(For example, we would likely use it for a particularly involved Full-Custom style request.)

Here is some footage we shot of him in action: