From lm03_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Wed Apr 29 18:01:41 1992 Received: from gawain.cif.rochester.edu by uhura.cc.rochester.edu (4.1/1.16) id AA18381; Wed, 29 Apr 92 18:01:34 EDT Received: from uhura.cc.rochester.edu by gawain.cif.rochester.edu (4.1/1.15) id AA00626; Wed, 29 Apr 92 18:00:29 EDT Received: from troi.cc.rochester.edu by uhura.cc.rochester.edu (4.1/1.16) id AA18365; Wed, 29 Apr 92 18:01:18 EDT Message-Id: <9204292201.AA18365@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> From: lm03_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Larry Moss) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 18:01:18 -0400 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.3 5/22/91) To: balloon@gawain.cif.rochester.edu Subject: goofy Status: OR It's been a whlie since anything has been posted so maybe I can get something started with this. I also just discovered that there was a problem with the list. No one ever sent me mail to let me know, so I assume nobody actually tried to send anything. If you did, sorry 'bout that. I'd really be interested in hearing what some of you think of this. This is going to be rather difficult to explain with limited graphics capabilities. The head is the hard part. This is what will make the character recognizable. The head alone requires 2 balloons. The remainder of the body will use 2 more. All 4 balloons are 260's and obviously the same color. If you're a purist and don't believe in drawing on your balloons, I'm not sure this is the figure to make. The figure does look like goofy without a marker if you know what you're looking at. The finished product, with the drawing is easily recognizable and has so far gotten great reactions. Unfortunately, the complexity is going to limit its usefulness at birthday parties. The first balloon will be used for the ears, eyes, and hat. Since the ears have to droop a lot, they should each be about 12-15 inches. Start by making one ear, then the hat, followed by two huge eyes, and finally the last ear. To make the hat, twist a 2 inch bubble, followed by 2 ear twists, and another two inch bubble. Lock twist the bottoms of the 2 inch bubbles. View of hat from front: __ __ ( _)(_ ) <-- ear twists | | |____| <-- 2 two-inch bubbles. Only one shows from the front. hat from side: _______ (_______) | | | \_|_/ So far you should have: __ __ ( _)(_ ) | | |____| / / \ \ first ear --> / / \ \ / / \ \ \ \ <-- remaining section With the remaing section of the balloon, twist two bubbles for large eyes (3 or 4 inches) and lock twist them so they are just below the hat. The section of ballon that is left is the second ear. Ideally it should be the same length as the first. :-) Now, put a bend in each of the ears so that they droop. It's also a good idea to try to squeeze some of the air from the base of the ears out toward the end to make the ends a little wider. __ __ ( _)(_ ) | | _ |____| _ / /( | )\ \ / / | | | \ \ / / \_|_/ \ \ /__ / \___\ <-- nipple end ^ | nozzle end / To complete the rest of the face and start the body, take the second balloon and make a small (about an inch or so) bubble. Then make a loop out of about a 7 or 8 inch bubble. __ 1 inch --> (__)_______________ / /^\ \ \____________ remainder 8 inch loop-> / / | | | |__ / / \____/ Make another loop just enough smaller than the first so that the top of it fits tightly inside the large loop. The idea is to keep the 2 loops connected, but stacked so that the face is narrower at the bottom. This is what you want it to look like: side view - _ ____________ (_)(____________) |\__________) | | | | front view - ____________ (____________) (________) | | | | | | The small bubble on balloon 2 gets slipped completely between the 2 eyes on balloon 1. This is enough to hold the whole thing together. The remaining section of balloon is the body. Arms and legs are just added to the boddy by using one ballon for arms and one for legs. Twist a few bubbles into each end of the balloons used for arms and legs to form hands and feet. I don't do anything special here, so be creative. I'm also willing to take suggestions from anyone that has an idea on making better hands and feet. These 2 balloons are then just added to the body. Here's a finished picture: __ __ ( _)(_ ) | | _ |____| _ / /( | )\ \ / / | | | \ \ / | _\__|__/_ | \ / / (_________) \ \ |___| (_____) \___| | | ()_________________| |___________________() () __________________)(____________________ () () | | () | | | | | | | | | | ()_________________| |___________________() () __________________)(____________________ () () V () I'm not quite sure how to describe the markings that need to go on it. If you can find a picture of goofy around you should probably look at that for guidance. There's a solid band around the hat. The eyes are very large with pupils that don't come close to filling them. The eyes also tend to touch each other in pictures. I put a large round nose on the front of the top loop and a few lines above that to show the wrinkles in his face. also on that loop, at about the bottom I draw a line across to represent the top of his mouth and the 2 teeth that he always has showing. The bottom loop shows his mouth open with a tongue drawn in. ____ ____ ( ___)(___ ) | | _ |______| _ / /( | )\ \ / / | xx|xx | \ \ / | _\_xx|xx_/_ | \ / / ( ooo ) \ \ | | \_L______J__/ | | |___| (___II___) \___| | | That picture doesn't really do justice to the figure, but it's the best I can do. Here's a small key: x: pupil. I didn't even try to draw the border of the eyes. They basically take the shape of the bubbles they are in. o: nose. there should be wrinkle marks above this. L, J: teeth. I: tongue. Since all of the disney characters have similar characteristics you could probably play with this a bit to make the head look much more like donald duck by eliminating the ears. The two-tier face would make a reasonable beak. I'm not sure what you would do for a body though. -Larry