As part of my course, we have to do a stop motion project involving cavemen. Now usually, I'll procrastinate wildly, then hand in a piece of work consisting of one or two sleepless nights.
In this case, I got quite into making my character, and I'm far prouder of it than I should really be.
Anyway, here he is:
I started with a copper wire skeleton. Originally the main parts of the limbs were made of air-drying clay, but this cracked when the limbs were moved - so I swapped that for 150-200 (ish) elastic bands, then I modelled the head, hands and feet from the same clay.
I then wrapped a piece of flannel around his stomach to bulk him up a little.
Moving on, I cut the front and back of a t-shirt and sewed them together on his torso (Note to self - next time, make the clothes before modelling the clay extremities.)
The next step was to sew together two tubes as trousers.
The next step was a crude belt, followed by extensions to the sleeves.
At this point I realised it could be a little difficult to include hair, to solve this, I used a screw driver to 'drill' a hole into each of his ears, allowing me to craft a small pair of headphones which would stay in place, I sewed black cloth around this wire to give my best approximation of dreadlocks.
Finally, I added a few wire hoops and some string for a little decoration, along with a crude knife.
So, there he is in all his fully posable glory, biding his time on my desk for the next week or two until I actually need to use him for my project.
was intrigued to find out that the makers of Wallace & Grommet, etc., use interchangeable parts to change facial expressions and hand movements 
