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Here's another link with lots of pics of a nice full-bodied female puppet being made - http://www.geppettodreams.com/makin_a_mimi.htm

If you can go, you should. It's a great program. If you do make it, please file a report here and tell us all about it.

Hi all, This is kind of last minute, but Heather Henson's mini-festival of puppet film and video, Handmade Puppet Dreams is in Atlanta tonight (June 10) at the Centre for Puppetry Arts. A bunch of fantastic puppet films and videos will be shown, including two unaired Muppet pilots. I've...

You don't need to leave a 1/2 seam allowance when working with antron fleece and sewing by hand. Some people do leave a very tiny seam allowance when hand stitching, but I don't. Personally, I think hand sewing produces much, much better results than machine sewing. Hand sewing takes longer and...

Yeah, in my experience you can definately get away with the one rod (assuming your puppet has removable arm rods) if the mic will be in the puppet's hands the entire time.

The way I've done this in the past is to rig the mic so it has a rod of it's own. Then the puppet's hand gets attached to the mic and the puppeteer holds both the mic's rod and the puppet arm rod. You can use the same method to handle different kids of props.

Yeah, it's one of the exceptions. There are others. I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe someone here more well-versed in textiles can enlighten us?

Fabric store employees are often kind of knowledgable, Wal-Mart employees usually not so much. The absolute best way to figure out if something can be dyed or not is to check what it's made from. There are exceptions, but generally natural fibre = will take dye, manmade material = won't take dye.

Ah, so Richard Coombs did Flat Eric! I've always wondered who that was. Thanks for the great links!

I missed the "polar" part of the post too. Ooops. Just FYI Faze, anything that is 100% cotton or a natural fiber will usually take dye. Man-made materials like polyester, spandex, etc. usually don't. If you're not sure ask at the fabric store when you buy the material and they can usually help you.

Try contacting RIT and ask who carrys the die in Southern Ontario. Wal-Mart used to, but I don't think they do anymore.

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...

Have you checked the RIT color recipe page? That's probably a good place to start.

Not to be outdone, someone else recently made a costume of the Thing (from Fantastic Four) out of real rocks. Pics and info - http://ultthing.tripod.com/main.htm

ZNS, it's probably very unlikely they will give you puppet patterns, but if you're looking for the Women's Day pattern it can be downloaded from http://www.puppetminister.com/links/muppets-blatch.pdf As Foz mentioned, there are links to all kinds of puppet building resources available if you...

Earlier in this thread there's a link you should look at http://www.bear-town.com/backstage_pages/puppetbldg_resources_pg1.htm It lists lots of books, videos, patterns, web sites, etc.

You should always cut just inside the line. I find it's better to use a fine tipped permanent marker (a 0.5mm Uniball pen is what I use) so the lines are less visible.

It's a rod puppet with cable controls I believe. First-time builder too!

The link to the page you're talking about is http://www.bear-town.com/backstage/tumbles_pg2.htm. The method I describe there is a little less work than Sean's, but his method produces hands that look slightly more naturalistic. I think either works fine, it really just depends on how you want...

It's foam that's been patterned and sculpted apparently. The armature inside it is closely modelled on the human body so it can move in a very realistic manner.