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D'Snowth, send me a Private Message with your email address and I will send you the pattern as .TIF file.

Usually the edge of the foam used to make the puppet's "skull" is glued on to the mouth plate, but it really depends on the design of the puppet.

Try Goo-Be-Gone. Home Depot usually sells it and it works quite well. Actually, most Home Depots have a few useful contact cement removing products in their adhesive aisle.

Have you looked at Swazzle's Ratchet puppet building tutorial? The mouth section of that is very good and this article on puppet mouths by Ron Binion is very helpful too.

It's rare that you'll find a tutorial for *exactly* what you need to do...you have to apply the general to the specific and experiment a bit. What you want to do is "drape" the head with fabric. Have a look at the tutorial Bezalel is doing and also part 5 of this one; they both do a very good...

No, but if you upload them somewhere like Flickr and post a link I am sure people will be happy to offer feedback. If you can't yet post links, PM them to me and I will be happy to post them for you.

Paper mache is very strong and light, but not a good choice if you want the puppet to be flexible. A sphere can be made by using eight wedges that are four times as long as they are wide. You can download a wedge pattern from here.

So I am curious, How many people here are members of PofA? If you are, what convinced you to join? If you're not, why aren't you? Same for UNIMA-USA. If you don't know what either organization is, please post that too.

Here's my method and also Sean Johnson's (scroll down to parts #10 and 11 of that tutorial).

I haven't really done any building work-for-hire for several years so my portfolio is not up to date, but I used to have an 8 1/2 x 11 inch book with each page having a 5x7 or larger photo of a puppet. For a few of my best pieces I would have shots taken from various angles and work-in-progress...

I think just simple, basic professional presentation in a portfolio case is fine. Nothing too fancy that distracts from your work, just let it speak for itself. The main thing I think is to just have as much killer work as possible. A portfolio filled with amazing work that is horribly...

Even if you want a round shape or beer belly it's pretty easy. Just use wedges. There is a tutorial here that may be helpful and you can download a free wedge pattern to work with.

There is a posting on the SFBAPG web site about a company looking to hire puppeteers in the L.A. area. Anyone interested can get all the details at http://www.sfbapg.org/archives/000806.html

Very, very, very nice as always!

Thanks for posting this information! I manage the Puppet Building Wiki project and it's really lacking in animatronics information. Any contributions you could make there would be most appreciated!

Check out Sean Johnson's ongoing "Lady Fromage" rod puppet tutorial in his Puppet 101 blog for a good idea of how these kinds of puppets work - http://swazzle.com/blogs/puppet101.html

My favourite line is "oooh, you mean that kind of omlet!" ;)

Not sure if this has already been reported elsewhere on the forum, but Puppet Up! premiered on TBS.com today! http://www.tbs.com/shows/puppetup/ There are two clips online now, and new clips will premiere each Wednesday. I got an email from Seth Miller at TBS asking to Digg the story to...

Don't be discouraged! There are videos on YouTube with thousands of views that have no comments. I haven't had time to watch these yet, but I will when I have a chance.

Good puppetry training is very, very hard to get. There is UCONN, but that is not an option for a lot of people and I would argue that even better than a University program is working hands-on with very talented, experienced puppetry artists. If you in or near NYC and looking to learn, Basil...