Wednesday, June 28, 2017

June 28 - Loopy Big Bird


Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

~ Jim Henson

This little loopy Big Bird is the next to use Tony Twist's Loop the Loop concept.

Big Bird is one of the central characters on Sesame Street, designed to be about 4 1/2 years old he was curious about the world in the same way many of the viewers were, oftentimes learning to deal with complicated issues.  In 1981 he lost his nest to a hurricane, and I distinctly remember the episode where he learned that Mr. Hooper had died (the actor who played him had perished).

The whole idea for making Big Bird began from imagining building these legs, which I think are fairly successful.  But this one falls a little bit short for me.  Mainly because in reducing Big Bird down to what makes him distinct - so much of that is his big plump bird body.

Big Bird also has a "feather cowlick" - when I tried putting some small feathers poking out the top, but having that central portion made them look more like antennae.





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