Embryo
Finished puppet



Final Design
A few photoshopped pictures of how the final puppet might look. I want to get a look that shows off the underlying blood vessels.
As it’s an embryo and thus not fully developed I figured you’d see more of this than you normally would on a fully grown creature.
The photoshop has several layers of blood vessels showing through at various levels of transparency.

The final puppet will be cast in semi-translucent silicon over a basic form comprised of rubber blood vessels.
This will hopefully approximate what can be seen in the above pic.

Moulds

A clay wall was built up to allow a two piece fibre glass mould to be made.
Sculpt

A few words of explanation. The puppet is being sculpted in a neutral pose.
The finished rubber version will have a bendy wire skeleton inside allowing it to be posed in whatever shape we need.
The tail is sculpted in the form of another, less developed embryo.
The idea is that the tail will be curled around in front so that the embryo will be looking at it's sibling when it opens it's eyes.
I've also started sculpting the umbilical cord.


Initial Concept

I don't sketch very often but I'm trying to do it more. Here's an inital concept sketch I did.
The idea become abit less 'deformed' once I'd heard the song the music video was for.