You can find the foam and fleece is use on my tools materials page.
How to make a ventriloquist dummy out of foam. Cut out and build a moving mouth. Explain exactly how the mouth pivot point is determined. Build self centering moving eyes for your ventriloquist figure. In this four part video series barbara dewey teaches viewers how to make cloth and foam puppets and ventriloquist figures.
Part 1 of 4 how to make cloth and foam puppets and ventriloquist figures. You want to make the cavity as large as possible without accidentally puncturing the wall of the head. Create molds that capture every essence of your sculpture. Email her for free patterns.
The head should be approximately half an inch thick at all points. Contact cement to join the foam pieces together. Do this very carefully. The strings and elastic bands and bits of board and ironmongery all work to make it quite busy inside so if you re making one yourself you do need to spend a bit of time thinking about where the bits need to go so they don t end up snagging on one another.
Cast the ventriloquist dummy s head and check the quality. Break the pieces of the head apart with a chisel and use the gouges to hollow out the inside for the dummy s mechanism. The basic materials for your soft ventriloquist figure are foam and fleece. Sculpt a ventriloquist dummy head out of clay.
Felt or craft foam for tongue eyelids and other miscellany. I built this with help from friends.