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Where is Handmade Dreams screening in Rhode Island?

I like the texture. How was that nose made?

That's great, congratulations!

Just further to what Ravagefrackle said, Zack from Furry Puppet has said numerous times here on the forum that he's a fan of carved rather than patterned foam puppets. Carving also seems to be a signature feature of (Furry Puppet builder) Maria Gurevich's style.

Have a look at the animatronics and puppet mech section on PuppetBuilding.com. You should find some helpful resources there. A cheap and easy way to do a Pepe-like mouth mech is to use a fish hook remover, which you can buy at Wal-Mart usually. There are many old threads here on the forum...

...yet still better than that awful animatronic puppet in Episode I. ;)

Interestingly, ITV apparently wanted to use puppets on the new Spitting Image series, but couldn't because of a copyright dispute.

There has been a lot discussion in the puppetry forum about "walk around" puppets like Big Bird and Bear in the past. If anyone wants to look those up, just do some searching in the puppetry section.

I don't think you could call any of Pixar's work "pretty dead" and Gollum was a very convincing, beautiful effect that would not have worked nearly as well with animatronics I think. Puppetry and computer graphics both have strengths and weaknesses. The problem with bad CG or CGI is the same as...

I was just reading about Headcases. Thanks for the link Skekayuk!

I'd heard of this video, but never seen it until now (thanks for sharing that Wes). Whatever people think of this material, Clampett was a real pioneer of puppetry on TV. In the 1930s he worked at his "day job" as an animator at Warner Bros. and spent his evenings and weekends doing puppetry.

Maybe try avoiding "uppets" altogether? The only variation on "puppets" (other than Muppets) I have ever really heard that I thought worked was The Wippets. That's not to say it can't be done, just that good names are hard to come up with.

Google is your friend. ;)

I don't know if there is another accurate term for puppets (animated sculpture?), but I am thinking more about positioning and how you present Hoggworks as a "brand". When I worked for a black light theatre company years ago they always referred to themselves as a theatre company rather than a...

Has anybody seen the new Björk music video Wanderlust? It just debuted on Yahoo yesterday and is really cool blend of live action, puppets and animation. I've got both the video and a "making-of" embedded on this page.

It does seem like in business as soon as you say "puppets" either you loose people or they have no understanding of what you do. Just the other day my girlfriend - who's a puppeteer and teaches part-time - was telling me about how she gets annoyed when she mentions to people that she's a...

I did most of the work with my ex-wife and the first job was a total fluke; we were out of work and saw an ad online for a company in South Africa that needed help with a black light show. I had spent about 4 years doing black light and she had 10 years experience as a builder so we got hired...

I'm building the mouth plate for a large alligator right now and using Coroplast (corrugated plastic, the stuff they make lawn signs out of). It's a really big mouth and it has to be light and sturdy with a bit of bend in it.

A "professional puppet" is just one you're paid to perform with. I think that the term is almost meaningless. I don't know if my personal story will be helpful in terms of this discussion or not, but about eight years ago I started a puppetry company and in the beginning it went very well. This...

Ha ha. "Home Despot". I like that. :p