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I find the whole 'arguing on behalf of a corporation' thing rather laughable. If you're going to be so hardcore about copyright infringements, you wouldn't watch and fav things on youtube that clearly aren't the account holders copyright, ie; muppet show videos.

..and muppet replicas. :rolleyes:

I'm only aware of Lucasfilm actually getting nasty toward one replica stormtrooper maker. It was a guy who was claiming copyright ownership of the designs because he was contracted for the first movie, I think, and that's when the lawyers attacked. Generally they turn a blind eye to small...

Yeah that's taken from the series of Levis ads for 'STA-PREST'. There's about ten of them. Mr Oizo, aka Quentin Dupieux, created flat eric and prevously appeared in his short films, where he was known as Stephane and had ears. He was rebuilt by the henson folk for the ads, and renamed flat...

Look forward to seeing an update on your Big Bird. If you ever need a hand, I'm in the area.

There's the plush kermit pattern you could use/modify. Have at thee.

You got the arm length spot on.

My high school music teacher would say "everybody can sing.. Absolutely everybody can sing. Some are terrible, and some are better than others, but everyone can sing." Just because ya can do something, doesn't mean ya should.

Keen eye, well spotted.

I knew about the head movement but remember reading his mouth movement was a ring and it would slip off during scenes when Bill's hand sweated up inside and they'd use another pepe. But anyway apologies for using the word 'just'. I meant the mouth was just a ring on string, not that, that was...

I remember reading somewhere on here someone got to operate pepe and said it was just string with a ring on it. I was kinda dissapointed when I read that, cause I always figured muppets had really clever mechanisms. Anyway, reading this I just came up with an idea so I dunno how well it'd work...

If you haven't already, you should check out Rob Schrab's stuff. In particular, his 'Robot B@stard' short film. I'm a big fan of his Ringwald and Molly shorts.

This is excellent stuff so far. I'm really diggin it. It'd be awesome if you had a red light come on over the blue, behind the mouth when you talked, like robbie the robot. Not sure how hard it'd be to make a voice activated light though. This is inspiring me to finish my little soda can...

It's here because people really wanting to get into this line of work might want to just do an artisan gig for a puppetry company, the same way film students might want to get work just being a grip on a movie set. It's experience with an already established company. As for everything else...

Bike cables are probly too short and adapting the ends are too finicky. But you could also try a manual choke cable older cars need. I made a simple cable operated puppet using this sink unclogger thing I stumbled upon at a hardware store. It's like a mini version of the big electric eel...

And is also famous for being the man who got fired from disney on his first day after the execs heard him in the cafeteria describing what disney porn would be like, with the character voices and all.

Well, of course all blink mechs are gonna be based on the same principles, but those diagrams people keep referring to means you have to stop the mouth, move your finger/s back to the lever and then push it up to make the eye close. If that's practical for you, then fair enough. I tip my hat...

I still don't like those references that always get handed out to anyone who asks about blink mechs. I don't see them as very practical. What I did is here in this thread. Just scroll down to the pics. I'm not saying do what I did, but it might give you some ideas. Play around with it, and see...

Yeah, I posted about this earlier. http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=33699

..Features puppetry. I hadn't seen it till everyone started talking about it on the net, and I'm always up for some Bandwagon riding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZjpWs1h7pU Looks really good toward the end when the Blacklighting kicks in. Especially the Witch Doctor-bones- lookin one.