Live-hand puppet building transition

Plaid Fraggle

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Hey guys!

So my next puppet-building project is going to be a live-hand Mokey Fraggle :dreamy: (I need to make another original character, but the Fraggles are calling to me...!)

Anyway. So my question here is how to best go about freelancing a live-hand puppet. I don't have the money to get supplies plus the patterns I know of on the internet, and I am pret-ty sure that creating a bigger Fraggle than the other two (I have built a Red and a Boober) I already have and then stickin' on some glovey arms/hands isn't exactly what I should be doing. Or maybe it is. I don't know.

And that is where you lovely folks come in :smile: Thanks for your help in advance!
 

kumakami

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there are two main ways to do it. The first (as seen in Fozzie, and the swetish chef) the Body and hands are a connected looking thing, like a large sack with mittons attached. the other method used looks like a normal rod had puppet but when you reach just before the wrist there is a extention (like a elbow length glove), the puppet, when looked at full, seems to hand 2 arms (1 coming off the puppet and the "glove" coming from the puppeter) that both connect at the wrist to a hand.

hope that helped a bit
 

Plaid Fraggle

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It certainly does, thanks :smile: I have definitely noticed this. Mokey's totally one of the latter ones, even though this fact is hidden by her robe thing. I think I will *gulp* try to wing it with the creation of her glove-hand...perhaps just kind of experiment with the attachment of those to the stick arms. I just fear the transition from the rod arm to the gloved hand will be too obvious! Ah well. :smile: Never know till I try.
 

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there are two main ways to do it. The first (as seen in Fozzie, and the swetish chef) the Body and hands are a connected looking thing, like a large sack with mittons attached. the other method used looks like a normal rod had puppet but when you reach just before the wrist there is a extention (like a elbow length glove), the puppet, when looked at full, seems to hand 2 arms (1 coming off the puppet and the "glove" coming from the puppeter) that both connect at the wrist to a hand.

hope that helped a bit
Fozzie isn't a sack design, he's a regular body like Ernie with the gloved arms attached like in your second method. Rowlf or Cookie are the sack design. I would definitely just make a regular puppet and attach the arms to the gloves as suggested...
 

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Thanks there! I actually thought that Fozzie was sack design too, though I haven't taken a close gander at Fozzie in a longer time than the Sesame Street guys. Thanks for the advice :big_grin:
 

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Have a look at this diagram, it might help (if you haven't already seen it):

 
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