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For anyone interesting sculpting/casting puppets, a puppet builder friend of mine sent me this link with some great tutorials on sculpting and casting techniques. Not written with puppets in mind, but still great information. There is more puppet-specific sculpting and casting info available in...

I thought this would be a good time to remind everybody that there is a Frappr Map of puppeteers around the world available...its goal is to build the most comprehensive map of puppeteers worldwide possible. At the moment it has almost 160 people on it, but I know there are more puppet people...

Since the question always gets asked, I thought I would start a thread listing all of the suppliers for reticulated "Scott" foam worldwide and maybe other people can add to it suppliers I have missed: Asia S D Industrial 21-227 Busan Industrial Supplies Market 578 Gwaebeop-dong, Sasang-gu...

I think a few links to Vaccuform table "how-tos" have been posted here over the years, but I really like this tutorial - http://www.studiocreations.com/howto/vacuumtable/index.html It's from the people behind the DH2 Costume & Prop site that has lots of great tutorials worth checking out.

Thought this might be of interest to people in PA: Renaissance Artist Puppet Company will be offering Puppet Manipulationand Building classes from July 31 ? August 11, 2006. Location: The Montgomery County Cultural Center, 208 DeKalb Street, Norristown, PA 19403. These classes are excellent...

Channel 102 held it's May screenings Monday night and both Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space and Puppet Rapist screened their final episodes. Both shows were "self-cancelled" by their creators because they had reached the end of their pre-determined story arcs. You can find both shows via...

...unfortunately these weren't regular shirts. They were filled with all kinds of gang imagery. Kind of a weird story - http://www.local6.com/news/9263741/detail.html

I've been hearing from a few people that they've gotten pre-ordered copies of John Kennedy's new book Puppet Planet. I won't be back in Canada until the summer so I probably won't see this for another month or two, but I was wondering if anyone here gotten one yet?

Check out this YouTube video of a stone Golem costume someone made for a live-action RPG. Apparently it was constructed from 5 foam mattresses, with over 50 sticks of hot melt glue (yeesh!) and 8 cans of grey and black spray paint. The foam was glued in large thick sheets to a fabric...

There's a new Muppet exhibit opening at the Smithsonian. It includes some of the original "Sam and Friends" puppets as well as the Kermit from `69 they've had in their collection for several years. I've posted more details in my blog -...

I know the now-famous eye mech drawings and photos that were originally done by Terry Angus are much-requested and lately hard to find on the web, but I just noticed Michele (PuppetPlanet) has reposted them to her website: Drawings - http://www.puppet-planet.com/images/blinkeye2.jpg Puppet...

The new Superman Returns trailer is out and it looks fantastic. Check it out - http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/supermanreturns/trailer2/large.html

Hi everyone, I was contacted by UNIMA-USA because they are putting together some kind of printed tribute for Jerry Juhl (he was serving on the UNIMA board when he died) and they are looking for photos of Jerry to include in it. I wondered if anyone here who attended either Muppetfest or one...

Hi everyone, A made this up after the subject of pricing things came up in a thread at Puppets & Stuff...it's an excel spreadsheet that provides a method for pricing your work. Pricing is really tricky - as I'm sure most of the people who sell puppets here know - and a lot of artists don't...

Hi everyone, A made this up after the subject of pricing things came up in a thread at Puppets & Stuff...it's an excel spreadsheet that provides a method for pricing your work. Pricing is really tricky - as I'm sure most of the people who sell puppets here know - and a lot of artists don't know...

This is a link to some really basic video tutorials in podcast form by a weekend videographer in Arizona. They illustrate simple techniques for shooting better digital video. If anyone here is new to shooting video and doesn't know much about focus, lighting and cutting they will probably be...

I recently posted this in my blog and wanted to add it here...12 helpful questions puppeteers should ask themselves before performing a puppet in a scene: Is the puppet doing what the director wants? Is the puppet doing only one thing at a time? Is the puppet putting over the story point in...

Jose Bolorino who runs the main Spanish-language puppetry site Titerenet has created a puppetry search engine. I tested it for a few minutes this morning and the results it delivers are really good so far. You can try it out in my blog -...

Someone has posted Timepiece - Jim Henson's Oscar-nominated experimental film from the 1960s - on YouTube. Pretty cool if you haven't seen it. Check it out - http://natepacheco.blogspot.com/2006/03/switch-it-up.html

Hi everyone, I know a few people have been asking for it, so I've finally put The Tumbles P. Bear Project back online. It's a multi-part article I wrote a few years ago about how I built one of the puppets for my Bear Town web series. It explains the wedge method of foam puppet construction as...