What are "Dragon" head sculpts

I have mentioned that I use "Dragon" head sculpts for My puppets , this has caused a wee bit of confusion which I would like to clear up.
I do not make these heads myself they are 1/6th sculpts from a company called Dragon Toys these are very detailed collector figures ,each character has it's own unique head sculpt unlike the cheap Action Man figures. Click this link PICTURETRAIL to see some of the many heads I own and have added more detail to. These heads are static and require manipulation using PhotoShop to add blinking and mouth movements, I am slowly getting better at this here is a link for a TUTORIAL I did on blinking using the PhotoShop morph tool.
Here is a still from the test below of a "Dragon" head with real eyes and a blink added in post.



Eyes open.

Blink frame.

Zoom close up end shot.




Original image, the eyes are still good.

Canon 40D

I have decided to take the plunge and sell off my Nikon D70 in favour of the Canon 40D for the live preview it provides. I can stop using a second camera attached to the viewfinder for a video feed and get a better quality image for an assist, others at StopMotionAnimation.com ( link to thread) are changing to Canon. I will keep the Nikkor lenses I'm using and buy an adaptor ring.

I have been working on My own technique of adding real eyes to some close up shots ,here is an early test with other added facial movements such as blinking and the start of a smile.

Overall news was really a test film to see how 1/6th figures /armatures and Dragon heads could be animated, I learnt a lot from this project.

"Dragon" head sculpts

I've been doing a lot of tests lately with various head sculpts from "Dragon" , the heads are 1/6th scale and are very detailed.

Title test

A compression test.