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The felt circles that are meant for the legs of furniture that some else mentioned earlier in the thread work very, very well and are less work than cutting out small circles from felt (although you can certainly do that too). They're also thicker than felt which gives the pupil extra dimension...

A good place to start might be this reverse engineered pattern that was posted on the forum a year or two ago - http://www.innisanimation.com/puppets/kermit.htm BTW, I found this using the "Search this Forum" feature. I'm sure Kermit-like patterns have been discussed many, many times. Spend...

I just watched this and it has to be the best homemade music video ever...a couple of Chinese students singing "I Want it That Way". Check it out - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6739710473912337648

Just to correct/clarify this is "illegal" in the sense that it's copyright infringement and violating the rights of the owner (in this case Sesame Workshop). It doesn't matter if it's an exact replica or not, it resembles Elmo so it's considered a derivative work which is prohibited under...

Oops, this was accidently posted. Someone can erase it.

Kev, Muley totally needs his own web series. Do it. Now! :p

That's a good idea, but a lot of them went back and forth between me and another person (or two) and sometimes a client. When you have several people contributing different things at different stages I think determining "true" authorship is a bit tricky. Almost all of the post-2000 puppets were...

Hi all, I've been going through old pictures working on a new web site and decided to create a flickr gallery of puppets I've either built, designed or worked on from 1994-2002. Some of them are good, some not-so-good; they were built for a whole range of things - everything from high school...

Not sure if this answers your question or not Steve, but the way I attach a neck tube to the body is to safety pin (or sometimes sew) the neck to the opening at the bottom of the puppet for you arm. If you mean how does the neck attach to the bottom of the head, it's usually just sewn, usually...

I think it's pretty standard to go in relatively "cold" to auditions, although sometimes they will provide sides (the script pages you read in an audition) a day or two before but often not. At a minimum they should have given you a little time to prepare before you went in to the room with the...

The density of foam (how hard or soft it is) should vary depending on the effect you want. The best type of foam to use is actually reticulated foam or "Scott" foam. Project Puppet sells it.

While I'm happy to do the coordinating, it's worth noting that I'm not 100% sure I'll be back in Toronto at the beginning of November since things for me are kind of up in the air down here in Mexico. Once questions are answered and things arranged I might have to hand off the information to a...

The Toronto School of Puppetry has just announced that Noreen Young (creator of Under the Umbrella Tree, among other things) will be teaching a one week master class in television puppet construction in January. I've posted more details at...

...although stop motion is really animation not puppetry so I suppose this should probably be in the General area, techically. Puppetry = The manipulation of objects in real time to create the illusion of life. Animation = The manipulation of images or objects, frame by frame, to create the...

Did you try the hotels that I posted above?

Chad Kerychuk has posted more details about the Aardman fire on his personal blog...apparently it's not quite as bad as thought. The company's film negatives were not in the fire and some props - like the rocket Nick Park built himself for "A Grand Day Out" weren't in the warehouse...

Here are some resources to check out BJ: - http://www.stopmotionanimation.com - http://www.stopmotionworks.com - http://www.animateclay.com I'd also highly recommend this video and the book "Cracking Animation" from Aardman. The Making of Chicken Run is a good book too and you can find...

If anyone has Toronto questions just post them and I'm sure either myself or someone from the Toronto area can answer them. I'm in Mexico right now but I *think* I remember my way around the city. :p BTW, if you are American you could have problems entering Canada for an audition. I don't...

Several Wallace and Grommits are made anew for each project. The ones on tour are (I believe) from the new movie; the fire destroyed Aardman's archives which reportedly didn't include the puppets, props and sets from the new movie. It's a terrible shame, although as Nick Park told CNN in light...

Search the forum under "eye mech". The subject has been discussed many, many times and there's lots of good info in the archives. You may also want to check out this article which includes several good resources for animatronics.