I went to michaels a few days ago and bought some stuff.
One was some special 1/16" armature wire. Unfortunately they only had one, so that was all I could get, but I can tell you right now, it is some top-quality stuff. As you might know, when you bend a wire, it will spring back a bit, and the more wires you twist together, the springier it gets. Since this is definately a really bad thing in armatures, I wanted to find a way to get around it. Well, I did! This wire has almost NO springback, even with clay covering it. The other good thing, is because of its size, I only need to twist to wires together for each limb, which cuts down on how much wire I need, and of course, it makes it less springier.
I already made an armature (and part of a puppet) out of the wire, but ill post more about that (with loots of pics) tomorrow or the next day. :)
The other thing I got was a pound of skin-colored clay, which I was running out of. (BTW, the brand of clay was Van Aken, for those of you who need some high-quality stopmotion clay).
Im also planning on doing a bit more animation on this set, before taking it down, but ill get to that later also.
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