Puppets meet shape-changing materials
Introducing the shape-changing puppets project Puppets are entertainment for young and grown-ups puppets lack emotional expression.
The aim is to enhance the playfulness of the puppets and make the audience feel more connected to the performance bring more enjoyment by improving the quality of the comedy
Scenarios
I will create interaction techniques for control over the puppets and set I will embed Shape-memory alloys into puppets to make them express emotions Puppets will seem more “natural” and make “funny” faces on set
- Smiling
- Frowning
- Scared
- A "living" forest
- Falling rain
- A shape-changing fluid background
- Enable sensors and actuators (potentially using a Kinect sensor)