TED HAINES - I'm gonna go from end to end though.
And I'm gonna have both of the hoses go out further
than each end because I don't know
what we're going tying on to them yet.
As far as like how we're connecting that to the body.
You might have a backpack clip
or fast clip connected to this
that we can clip up to the harness
that the performer will be wearing
that way it'll take the weight,
and all the weight of this tail and everything
won't just be hanging off of our spandex suit.
So we could clip that up to the performer.
So I'm just taking this up
at least halfway.
Somebody's diggin' in my pocket for my microphone.
Thanks.
Now we're gonna get our hose.
Actually I'm gonna put in this one first.
I want this at the top
and there's a reason for that.
Is that this hose right here,
in order to puppeteer it we're gonna shove a rod into it
that's got a sharp point.
So I don't really want to be piercing
our hose that's gonna have the liquid running through it.
I don't wanna to ruin that hose
so I'm gonna put this towards the top.
I know I'll be picking in through the bottom
with our puppeteering rod.
And again, this is just regular Tygon tubing.
It's food grade, which means,
food grade, it's like a restaurant grade.
You know they can pump soda through this
or through this here, water.
It's for refrigerators.
But that all came from Home Depot in the plumbing section,
so really accessible materials.
So I'm just shoving that in as far as I can.
And then this one gonna go in on top of it
and I'm not gonna skive out a line for this
to make room for it.
It's deep enough in here
and I'm just gonna glue shut,
like an inch or so.
Just using the 74 spray, I'll just glue that closed.
And that'll be good enough to hold it.
So I don't want to stiffen it up too much.
But I am trying to get it up into there fairly well.
And once this is finished and we're on set
and we're gonna have to puppeteer it,
I might have to cut into the bottom
just to find out where the hose is.
Cause this is the puppeteering rod
that we're gonna put in right it's just on the other side
on a disk sander.
Took a chunk of steel here, bent it,
had this on a sander and this is down to a nice sharp point
so I'll probably end up putting a L200 cork on top of that
just to protect us
but this I'll be able to shove through the foam
and then pierce the hose.
It takes some work,
but it will go in.
I bought strong hose.
There we go.
So on set we're really gonna be
kinda manhandling this,
smashing it around to get this pipe in here.
But all this would be sealed up first,
and I've got to do another bend.
Let's see if I can do it.
There's holes on this table.
It's really handy.
Hold on one second.
There, I love it when a table's got a built in vice there.
So that's the way that'll be on set.
I'm gonna hook this on our scaffolding for a second.
So we can have all this glued in
connected to our character
and be able to move the tail around.
I'm gonna seal that up on the bottom
so it moves a little bit better.
But I'm gonna do that right now.
So I've definitely hidden my smaller tube,
that the liquid will be running through.
That's on top of this tube
so I'm just gonna spray some 74 in here.
Capture the tube,
so that doesn't slide around.
And go the whole length.
I know you're not catching it.
You're catching it, right?
You got it, okay.
I'll try to keep this angled up a little bit.
(spraying)
- [Man] You got just another paddle,
they're on the other table.
- Great, thanks.
(spraying)
Okay.
You gotta let this set up just a little bit.
I want to show you guys something else.
Alright, so I've sprayed a couple of layers
of 74 spray glue into this cut
with the Tygon tubing for the liquid
and then our tube for pupeteering.
And that'll just add strength as well
if we're using a tube like that.
You know, this heavy duty, braided rubber tube.
I'm just gonna mash that down really good.
Make sure that that glues and sticks in really well.
And then I'm actually gonna cut
into here just a little bit.
Find out where that tube is.
There it is.
So I want to show you.
So again, I got a crazy sharp point on this
and I'm just gonna shove it in.
You really want to be careful
that you're shoving in to the right area
cause number one, you want to put it into the tube
that you're going to be puppeteering.
And the reason I don't have pre-drilled holes in to here
is that I want this to fit in here really well
and not slip out.
There we go.
But I'd be hard to find a pre-drilled hole.
And we're not gonna be moving and removing these too much.
Once the rod's kinda set in here,
that's pretty much where it will live.
For some shots we might have to change it up a little bit.
Let's see, we're getting it in there.
Alright, so that's in there.
And again, I'm gonna just tie this off
on to the scaffolding here.
Actually gonna throw a zip tie around it
so I don't pull it out.
Here we go.
And more than likely,
I mean this isn't that crazy of a long tail.
So remember, we might have a puppeteer here.
Hi.
We might have a puppeteer right here.
We might have one right on the tail
to really be able to get that around
and do a snapping action.
But I've just got the one on here right now
so if we're gonna be puppeteering,
if this is our stage right here
and we've got all of our miniatures,
we've got our performers right here.
That means this rod's gonna gonna go all the way down
through the table under the stage
and then we'll probably have to have monitors
or something down there, is what we normally do,
so we could watch a TV monitor.
We'll see what the camera sees
and we'll be able to whip this around
just on that access point
because we're not gonna have,
I mean we might be able to even cut a channel
in the table so we could actually move like this.
You know, make a move either way.
So that's just on the day, what the tail needs to do.
And obviously we can bop it up and down like this
as the character's walking along
or just kinda keep it alive
rather than just having it lying there
and it's sliding along the ground.
So it's kinda fun to be able
to have something up and moving around like that.
So there's the mechanics of the tail.
I'll keep that in there.
It's hard enough to put in
so I'm keeping it back in there for now
unless we gotta work on it.
So we got the tube in the tail
right in front of you guys here.
Working on the mechanics for the fingers,
which we're gonna get a little bit further on right now.
Working on the mechanics for the hands
which we're gonna get further on today.
So that'll be later on.
Justin's working on the head still.
Working on the feet.
So we'll have more to show you next time.
Thanks.