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Wire armature - human male.by ~jvk

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Here is a three-step guide to making a wire armature for a human male clamation figure to correct standard human proportion (approx. to 7ths.) the first three images show how to shape each of the three wires and where to twist them together. This is the same guide I use for teaching my students.

If you print the page onto A4, you can use the illustrations as a size-guide to produce a figure around 7" tall, which is good if you want to kit it out with commercially available props or doll-house accessories. It's also a handy size for animating (not too big and not too small.)

If you want to make bigger or smaller figures, just print the guide to a different size. You only need to print the coloured examples once for reference, then resize the black size-guide however you want.
Remember, for female figues, make the hips wider and the shoulders slightly narrower.
Also, the bigger the model, the stronger the wire. For a figure around 12" tall you'll need to use something like coathangers and gaffa-tape.
And if you're using thin wire like that plastic-coated gardenning stuff, best to wrap another length up one leg, from the ankle, twist it once around the spine just above the pelvis and then back down the other leg. Consider the weight the wire has to hold up, when all the clay and plasticine goes onto it!

If you want examples of models made using this guide look on my gallery, or go to ~rittie145 and ~jam95

~Euroseth Dec 25, 2009

Thank you, this is very helpful

*MouseAvenger Oct 5, 2008 Hobbyist Filmographer

Very good.

~Zombiedoggy May 27, 2008

very helpful :3

~bichoraroi Feb 27, 2008

Thank you... I used a wire armature but i din´t do it very well....this will be helpfull!

~jvk Oct 27, 2006

I should have added that it stands up better if, after doing like it shows on the guide, you wrap another length of wire up from one ankle to the waist, loop it around the spine once and then wind it down the other leg. The thing has to hold a lot of weight with all that clay and plasticine and stuff on it.

!sancho-taquito Oct 26, 2006

awsome
thanks man

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