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That's a good point...the spreadsheet is intended to calculate your sale price, irregardless of whether you sell wholesale or retail so you need to add an extra % if you are selling through wholesalers or distributors.

I was thinking more in terms of the fact that your arm actually needs to sweat to release heat and preventing it from doing that on a regular basis may not be healthy.

Is that a healthy thing to do on a regular basis? :confused:

Glad you guys like it. Foz, I accidently posted to two threads about this. :o Maybe you can merge this one with the other one if you get a chance?

You probably want Reticulated Foam. ProjectPuppet sells it online in small quantities. If you want larger quanities check for foam wholesalers in Ohio or if you click around the ProjectPuppet site they have the name of their supplier. I believe the eyes on the Avenue Q puppets are vacuformed...

Hi everyone, A made this up after the subject of pricing things came up in a thread at Puppets & Stuff...it's an excel spreadsheet that provides a method for pricing your work. Pricing is really tricky - as I'm sure most of the people who sell puppets here know - and a lot of artists don't...

Hi everyone, A made this up after the subject of pricing things came up in a thread at Puppets & Stuff...it's an excel spreadsheet that provides a method for pricing your work. Pricing is really tricky - as I'm sure most of the people who sell puppets here know - and a lot of artists don't know...

Personally, I prefer using non-stretch materials because I find that the puppet's neck will often stretch over time if you use spandex (although this is really only an issue if the neck is independent of the body). Also, I like breathable materials like polyester jackuard mesh (it's often used...

Are they stereo?

I really love it, but it strikes me as a book that was editorially compromised. It's seemed to me like Carroll started out writing a biography and then they tried to turn it in to some kind of "life lesson" book. I think it's worth picking up just for Carroll's illustrations alone.

These are awesome! I love Lou's work, he's one of my favourite designers. It's great that he's doing some puppetry related stuff.

This is a link to some really basic video tutorials in podcast form by a weekend videographer in Arizona. They illustrate simple techniques for shooting better digital video. If anyone here is new to shooting video and doesn't know much about focus, lighting and cutting they will probably be...

Try picking up "The Muppets Make Puppets" and "The Complete Book of How To Be A Puppeteer". They are both filled with great ideas for kids. Bezalel mentioned John Kennedy's fantastic book (Puppet Mania) and John has a new book coming in June called "Puppet Planet". He also has website with some...

I saw the actual Thog as a kid in Toronto. I don't know how many pieces it was actually constructed in, but if memory serves the body was in two pieces, a lower body and then upper body/head. The seam was concealed by the shaggier fur you mentioned. I assume that the legs and feet were separate...

A company called Studio One makes a product called the XLR-BP-PRO3 that's really good. It has three XLR mic inputs and also inputs for standard 1/4" and 1/8" plugs if I remember correctly. It retails for somewhere between $200 - $250 US I think. If you do some Googling you should be able to find...

I have a couple of static starfields I can send you if you email me privately. Also, there's also info about various non-computer methods of creating starfields here as well as the source code for a C program that generates starfields.

I just watched this online at http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=1706

Reading this I was wondering what size everyone here makes their puppets and why?

Watterson once joked that one of his biggest mistakes was underestimating the value of Calvin peeing on a Ford logo. :p

Although people come at it from different perspectives, I think that's what almost everyone agrees on. My previous post wasn't meant to be argumentative, I really don't think anyone here has ever been deliberately discouraging.