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It really depends. I have seen fantastic-looking human like heads done both ways. Some types of shapes are easier to do one way or the other, I think it depends on your preferences and what you feel comfortable doing. I could probably figure out how to pattern almost any shape out of sheet foam...

Just don't use real cookies, they can ruin the puppet...I think the cookie props on Sesame Street are actually painted rice cakes.

You can't post images here in the forum, but you can post a link to the image on another site. Flickr is great (and free) for photo sharing if you don't have web space somewhere else.

I suspect he was molded in foam latex, but I would have to see a video to be sure. Anyone else?

It really depends on the type of puppet you are interested in. John Kennedy has great "puppet craft" books (Puppet Mania! & Puppet Planet) Some of the best books on puppetry (mostly rod puppets) I have ever read are by Hansjürgen Fettig. The Art of the Puppet by Bill Baird is long out of...

Type of puppets?

There is a good system for wilting leaves described in "How To Audrey II" by Marty Robinson if you can get your hands on a copy.

John Kennedy's Puppet Planet book has some basic, but very useful tips on foam carving if you are just getting started.

Eyeglass screws would probably work well.

The eyes are just spheres and the pupil isn't fixed in one position. The pupils are attached to the eye using a single pin, or nail or something like that so that they can spin around freely to create the "Googly" eye effect.

Has anyone here heard about (or bought) the new Dremel Glue Gun? It's pretty cool - I recently wrote it up on PuppetBuilding.com - and has a bunch of good features like: Dual temperature settings (high/low) so you can use any type of glue stick Anti-drip tip On/off Switch Silicon Tip...

So are all the movements in those clips scripted, or do you control the avatars in real-time? BTW, here's a post from my Machin-X blog today that you might find interesting - http://machin-x.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-puppeteer-head-in-machinima.html

I did a really poor job of explaining McCloud's theory of visual abstraction in my last post and kind of over simplified it. I don't mean to suggest that realistic characters can't work, just that as the Uncanny Valley states people accept puppets/robots/etc. of varying degrees of abstraction up...

I can't remember now....but it will probably come to me. It was at a mini-workshop I did. The technical name for the material you were describing is corrugated plastic. It's often sold under the brand name Coroplast. Thanks for the info!

You can create a sort of "scruffy" bunched look by using a mixture of water and heavily diluted white glue (just be sure to test it on scraps first!). There are probably other, better methods but I have done that and it works quite nicely after a little practice.

Pat, if you don't mind me asking what is the plastic you use in your mouth plates? I had my hand in a puppet you had built a little over a year ago and the mouth plate was really well built.

Maybe a brass tube would work? One question though, how do you think the clip should be attached inside the arm? The smallest gator clips I have seen are still very bulky.

There's actually some kind of fancy clip the Muppet builders used to use in the arm of some of their puppets in the `80s but no one seems to know much about it. I think it may have been a proprietary thing someone in their workshop invented. There is also a clip method involving a bobby pin that...

One of the big factors that play in to how much people will identify with a character is a phenomenon called visual abstraction. Essentially, the idea is that the more iconic an image is the more people can relate to it. For example, a really iconic image is a smiley face. It's not very...

If you want round eyes that are embedded the posts really are the way to go. Easy to use, but your options in terms of size are limited. You can buy them online here.