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Yeah, I don't really like radio controlled animatronics as well but cable operated doesn't look move much better either, in my opinion. At least with cables the speed can be controlled more, but for Number Five it works because he is a robot after all. For close ups he was just the top half...

These movies had a big impact on me as a kid. I use the sequel for my argument contrary to 'no sequels are better than their original'. If you haven't seen this on youtube yet, I highly recommend it. Truely fantastic design. I like the second movie more because he gets a lot more screen time...

Ehh, depends on the puppet. I have a few baby T-shirts and they work fine for mine. As seen here.

You summed that up brilliantly with your final sentence. Yes! A medium, not a genre. Gawd, that's what I was thinking but couldn't put it so sussinctly.

I'd say Puppetry isn't a genre because it combines too many aspects of performance and makes it hard to catagorize as it's own thing. Animation is what you see on screen and that's all you see on screen. If you're watching puppetry, you're seeing any number of crafts and talents that bring the...

Provided there's enough space inside the head to cause shadow, I'd say anything clear will work cause the inside of the head will look black anyway. Any mascot's opening on the face, for the person to see out of, will appear black, provided it's fairly small in relation to the size of the head...

If I were you, I'd research into voice actors somehow, and how they go about getting their voices for characters. For example, I remember reading the guy who did Wakko in Animaniacs said he'd just imagine Ringo Starr on LCD or something and that's how he'd get in the zone to do Wakko's voice...

I've been looking round for suits and tuxedos too. It's tricky to find doll or teddy bear suits-tuxedos the right size, but there's always baby Christening/Baptism tuxedos. Sometimes you'll find something decent on Ebay, some are pricey but yeah, depending on the your deadline, I'd say keep an...

That.was.awesome!

This is the kinda thing I'd do- Sketches.

Female would be easier than male. Dark outline, cat-like eyes would look asian without being racist.

Someone's clearly a Kevin Smith fan. ; )

You might get a kick out of This photo then.

I know this is a slightly older thread but I'm building another blinking puppet and trying to refine my previous attempt, so I'm putting this idea out there as a tip. To make the curved material over the eye, I got some stretchy material [it just needs to stretch in one direction at least]...

Refreshing to see a director talking about how cartoony CGI looks. Hope this means we won't see any CG ghostbusters flying through the air or clinging to a CG monster but there's the studio, so I'm not holding my breath. I can only think of Underworld, where a director said "No, I want guys in...

Is the mouth operated with the fingers and not the thumb? Because I dunno about you guys, but I can't hold my hand up straight and have my thumb push out forward, away from my palm, to mimic beaker's mouth, and especially with the speed Beaker's mouth "Meemee"s. I take it, it's all four fingers...

You should enjoy this then- early rehearsal footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aYLq96lY0M Shows how it's operated. Does anyone have favourited the raw footage version, without the music and stuff? I don't seem to have it, or the 'stay puft marshmallow man' head- test footage in my favourites.

You're a braver man than I am. I prob'ly wouldn't be making such bold claims of her maliciously and intentionally scamming, for fear of being sued for slander. [but I guess that'd at least get contact there in some way] ..Nah, who am I kidding, I'd be frothing at the mouth and say far worse. I...

You wouldn't happen to be involved with it, would you? What with taking my views really personally, and the patronizing and snide defenssiveness. Otherwise, why would you care? Learn something from deliberately bad puppetry, as you say? I make silly little puppet vids on youtube, but this...

I thought the puppets and puppetry was the worst thing about it. Mildly amusing, but yeah, the bad puppetry and kinda scary lookin puppets were rather distracting.