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There's been discussion about using that software for pattern making over at the PuppetsandStuff forum off and on for a year or two now. You might want to try a search there for information and ideas.

Take a look at the Animatronics section on PuppetBuilding.com. Especially helpful might be this animatronic hand tutorial.

Who are the other puppeteers who worked on this?

You could also carve the puppet (or parts of it) out of a hard closed-cell foam. There are some pics of a marionette that was made this way here.

The subject of how to build a Sesame Street "Yip Yip" Martian comes up a lot here so I thought everybody might enjoy a tutorial explaining how to make a Sesame Street Martian costume (not written by me, I just found it on BoingBoing).

Most people are surprised when the find out a lot of stuff they just assume is CG like the Terminator robots, or the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park or even that cool little mini-Transformer in Transformers last year weren't computer generated, they were Stan Winston puppets.

I just spotted these today and thought they were cool (sorry if they've already been posted here)...pictures of Swazzle's new stage that Sean mentioned on here awhile back I believe.

Here is the working link. Very nice puppet, especially for a first attempt!

Fimo or some kind of polymer clay might work well.

No, but if you join you usually get a discount on your registration fee.

I've heard several CG animators say that they find it's more like stop-motion than traditional 2D animation for the reasons you mention.

One of the best ways is by taking workshops at puppet festivals. There are a couple festivals this summer on the East Coast. See http://www.puppeteers.org/festivals.html for more information.

I might be splitting a hair here, but technically speaking difference between puppetry and animation is that puppetry is real-time manipulation of objects whereas animation movement/manipulation occurs on a frame-by-frame basis. Whoever wrote that for PofA was wrong about that. There is a lot of...

The Creature Shop is still open and doing reasonable amount of work , just consolidated in L.A. with a small New York shop (I believe). Or are you just referring to the London shop?

As in good or bad?

Are you talking about Jib & Crash?

I think it is very clearly puppetry (there are some exceptional puppeteers that worked on that show). The idea itself wasn't original to Oobi and I don't see how it could ever be consider "bad" for puppetry.

For the current project I am doing I am working with a Canon HG10, which is very similar to the HV-20, expect it's a hard drive camera and doesn't require tapes. It's a camera from work and not necessary the one I would have chosen to buy myself, but it's pretty ideal for web video. Under most...

A couple of old posts on my blog from a few years ago that you might find helpful (if you haven't already seen them) are: - Twelve questions for puppeteers - Six more things for puppeteers to think about I've also got a lot of stuff under Puppetry Theory that you might find useful.

There is instructions for a very cheap and easy to build DIY background stand here. You can buy a roll of seamless backdrop paper in any professional photography store in whatever colour you'd like.