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Very cool, I'm a Gentile so I had no idea.

Anyone know who this guy is?

I posted two ads from the Israeli Electrical Company that feature two puppets named Sheka and Teka in my blog today. The ads are in Hebrew, but really funny all the same - http://puppetvision.blogspot.com/2005/11/sheka-teka.html I'll have a couple more of them to share in the next few days.

This will make you miss the Spice Girls oh so much... http://www.revver.com/video/4067/?__session_just_started__=1

Technically they could be, but it's pretty obvious that they're doing a parody. It's also a non-profit, social activist type of thing.

Doesn't One Way Street or someone in the Christian puppet world sell a live hands pattern? I think OWS sells patterns for making shirts for live hands puppets at least. I don't normally recommend OWS, but maybe that would be one way to solve this so try searching their site.

That pattern looks like it would more or less work for the type of thing you want to do. I made a few live hands puppets like this over the years and they were all done pretty much that way. My advice? Use the information you've gathered a just go build a puppet. If it works out well...

There are many, many threads on making simple blink mechs if you search the archives. The kits I posted (or something similar) are pretty much as good as you're going to get. Try browsing Chris Hillman's massive collection of animatronics links. There a few thousands links to just about...

There are some stadard kits you can buy, try looking at these. I believe their controllers are designed for playing back recorded movement, but can probably be modified so you can radio control them on the fly fairly easily. Animal Makers can provide custom-built, ready to go mechs, but they're...

I don't claim any specific knowledge of exactly how each Muppet is built beyond what's been revealed here and in various books and videos over the years, but I do think there's probably few mechs in the Muppets than most people think and not that many of the Muppets have moving eyes or other...

Just too funny - http://www.rockpapersaddam.com :)

Just for the record, black light won't photograph properly on video, unless you're using very specific (expensive) lights and camera techniques.

Ah, OK this is more of a filmmaking question than a puppet one. I don't understand the need to have the puppeteers in water if the puppets aren't, but my suggestion for this would be to shoot against green screen or blue screen and composite in a background. There are a lot of great tutorials on...

Trekkie, water is tough and potentially dangerous to work with (if you're using lights and electrical equipment). The A/V tech at the college I went to worked on Fraggle Rock and several Jim Henson specials doing safety and electrical work and talked about how difficult and dangerous these types...

What you may be thinking of is foam latex, which is used to make puppets like Miss Piggy and used quite extensively for make-up special effects and animatronic puppets. There's a good article about this stuff by Tom McLaughlin, who worked for the Muppets and contributed to some of the original...

Very nice

..and then there was part three. Personally, I like using black shrink wrap (which gets "shrunk" on to a rod with a heat gun) rather than tool tip, but to each his own.

I know, but at first glance on the site it looks like it is $50 for the Rotondo pattern and then an extra $25 for the fleece covering add-on. But as you say if you read carefully the two actually sell for $55. I think one thing to watch out for with this type of business is too many names...

That's a good deal, the package I mean. I think the patterns are a decent price at $55 but at $75 you might be past the upper limit of what people are willing to pay for a puppet pattern.

I saw this on the LA puppet guild web site and thought I would share: We are looking for a puppeteer for a one-puppet television pilot presentation filming in early December or mid-January. We have the puppet and character developed; we need someone who can flesh it out with their expertise...