TREE FORM We recommend strong construction of wood and metal to hold up the face.  You can create realistic looking bark with spray insullation foam! This can be blended over your tree and our latex face to create a continuous texture of bark that blends in. It also allows for the removal of the face should it need repair. The downside is that it is not super strong if subjected to kicking or hitting like fiberglass would be.

Make the basic trunk by making the box into a 3 foot diameter tube Create smaller tubes for branches and secure them at angles on the tree. To create the bark texture, use spray insulation foam in vertical rows. Once it expands it will look great!   Just paint it with a few colors of brown along with some black in the cracks and you're good to go.

	Here you can see the cardboard tube on the right with some pre-drawn guide lines. Just spray the insulation onto the foam in rows that almost touch each other.  When the foam expands as it dries it will touch as you can see.
	Here you can see some of it painted with a base coat of tan, then more detailing of different browns and the black lines airbrushed between the grooves You can use a paint brush just as well.
	Here are the finished trees on a set we built for a video project. You can see how real they look. You can use this technique to make trees on your sets, or to make the base for the latex tree face above.
TREE PUPPETS We no longer make the full trees because of the crazy shipping. We have found that if we make just the face you can make your own tree trunk and attach it.	Talking Tree Face In order to attach the big tree face to your tree trunk you would allow room for it to be mounted then you spray the foam texture over the flange of the latex face to blend it in and transition from the latex. The mechanics need to be supported from the ground. The tree can be supplied as a non-animated face only with moving mouth (puppet rod control) 4x4 ft. Operator controlled Blinking eyelids and side-to-side moving eyes. Animatronic Hands-Free Operation of the talking tree is also possible synched to a sound track email Steve to inquire.