my first puppet looks distorted / warped

just made my first puppet, but it looks distorted, 

its like there is a mesh effect on all the parts. but i dont know how to turn that off.

theres no on/off function that i can see

i wasnt intending on using a mesh yet, until i get to a more advanced stage in the puppet creation

it also seems to be treating the whole thing as one single layer, instead of recognising the individual parts which i assigned to the corresponding parts in character animator using photoshop layers  (left pupil, right pupil ,mouths, hair etc)