DERWEN THE EARTH ROAMER
Derwen is a puppet inspired by the ancient forests of North Wales. He is an Earth Roamer: a group of giants that roam their earth, each carrying a village upon their backs.
Made to explore creative warbla sculpting, with a blinking eye mechanism and built to be puppeteered by a single person. Sustainability was at the heart of this project. Derwen is made entirely of Warbla, paper, old water piping and other recycled/ reused materials.
Design Process
Initial designs
Character design
Initial internal structure design
Clay and Warbla sculpting
Internal structure- Head and eye Mechanisms
Head/ neck mechanism on a single pivot point, giving access to the head through the back
Eye blink mechanism design
Final internal structure
Final rendering
Warbla feet sculpt
Embedded handle design
Hand painted brown paper leaves
Model houses from reused packaging foam
Movement video
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