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Do you mean the design aspect (the look)? Or the personality aspect?

You have to be careful what types of materials you use when building puppets. For example, I remember many years ago foolishly using one of those water-based Crayola markers to draw patterns on foam for a puppet. After using a puppet a few times the sweat from my hand caused the marker to bleed...

Hi all, Sesame Workshop is doing a special workshop (for kids) at the Garden State Film Festival next weekend. From the festival web site: How To Get To Sesame Street !!! Saturday April 1st 2:15-4:00pm Join Sesame Street Associate Producer Benjamin Lehmann and Puppeteer Ryan Dillon as they take...

You can get info about Blender at www.blender.org. When you first start the program it looks very intimidating but there are some fantastic "quick start" tutorials to help you learn the interface and it's almost as full-featured as 3DS Max. It's much more complex than iClone, but pretty easy to...

There's actually quite a bit of controversy in childhood development circles about this project. It's drawing a lot of criticism from child psychologists at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere. They're taking the same line as The American Academy of Pediatrics which recommends that children...

The problem with the rods is that they could be prohibited as a carry on item. They might not be, it depends on the design of the rod and the security people who screen you. As I understand security protocols in most airports, if they decide the rods are prohibited they'll seize them and they'll...

You shouldn't have a problem with it. You'll have to pre-clear U.S. customs in Toronto before getting on the plane and as long as it's not remaining in the United States you shouldn't have to declare it. It's just a personal item. I find that the trick to going through U.S. customs without a...

I just saw this on MAKE and thought people here might find it interesting, it's a tutorial on how to make a hot wire foam cutter. Just remember that you have to be careful and take the proper safety precautions; foam gives off toxic fumes when it burns or melts...

It's about half done. I was hoping to get it finished up this spring, but it had to take a backseat to some other things I was doing.

I believe those puppets may have been up on the Puppet Heap site for awhile. I think they're from Paul Andrejco's work with the Muppet workshop. As I understand it, Paul and most of his associates are former Muppet builders so if they're doing the Muppets now then it's many of the same people...

Oh no worries, probably the confusion is that I've worked with KotB-affliated organizations in the past, just not Kids on the Block Toronto. There's several groups using KotB programs in Southern Ontario and I think in most people's minds they all get lumped in together. Irregardless, as you say...

The way achieve that is using match-moving the camera and the virtual sets in real-time. Basically, the camera picks up markers on the greenscreen and uses them to corresponding move a virtual camera in the computer that generates the virtual/digital set. I've only seen a few episodes of Big...

Really? I didn't realize Animation Master was still around. I've been learning Blender, which is even cheaper (free!) and the newest version is very impressive, although it's still kind of unintuitive.

Oooh, spiffy. What was he modelled in? Maya?