Little Boots

Here's my first pair of puppet shoes I've designed and made. On "Coraline" (Laika), I mainly worked on armatures, casting, and seaming - so I got to cast some shoes, but they were already in production, so no chance of designing much of anything. These were a little experiment that turned out much better than expected! The soles are sculpy with some metal re-enforcement and the "leather" is a cheap fabric. I found the key was routing out a channel along the outline of the foot on the top of the soles to give a place to tuck the fabric into, to give them a realistic look of shoe construction. They are an actual "left" and "right" shoe, as well. That's a regular pair of nail clippers in the background to give an idea of scale.