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As always, there are a number of threads here discussing various types of mechs (moving eyes, eyebrows, blinking, etc.) but the best guide to making this kind of thing is "Figure Making Can Be Fun?!?!" by Michael Brose. It's actually written with Vent dolls in mind, but you can adapt the designs...

I can probably find you a cheap source. What type of material are the puppets they are for made out of?

In some good news on The Hobbit movie front it looks like Time Warner (owners of New Line Cinema) will likely buy MGM which puts all the rights for the Hobbit together under the same corporate umbrella. If this deal goes through and Peter Jackson is willing I think that making the Hobbit will be...

There wasn't supposed to be a second episode (yet). It was just a pilot.

Actually it's a very valid comparison. Not because of the size of the Starship Troopers fanbase (I completely agree that franchises like Gremlins, Ghostbusters, BTTF, etc probably do have bigger built-in audiences) but because the process they went through on ST 2 is exactly the same as what...

Actually, no they're not imho. I'm told that design does work to a certain extent though (I haven't tried it) but it's not nearly as durable. The mobility of arms actually has little to do with the rods and more to do with how the arm is actually constructed. The best thing to do is try...

I'm not the biggest Crank Yankers fan in the world but the Muppets are fair game for parody - they've been spoofing others for nearly 50 years after all. Jim Henson strikes me as the kind of person who had a sense of humour about things and was a good sport.

I think what Joe Dante is probably not saying is that the reason the studio wouldn't give him the money to do a Gremlins 3 (with a big enough budget to pay for animatronic effects) is that there's little evidence the movie would make back it's cost. Starship Troopers 2 ran in to the same...

I really need to learn to be more concise. :o

It depends on what you need to do with the puppet. If you'll always be using both arms a permanently attached rod might be OK. I personally prefer to have both rods removable. I explain one approach (the best I've found actually) to making removable arm rods in my tutorial "The Tumbles P...

Ebay will definately work but any decent camera shop - not a photomat, but a real photography store - carries these, often for $15 or less. Longer ones might be more expensive. I'd imagine there are several places you can get these in Philly. I'm curious Matt - how is the mech used to control...

CGI is NOT killing the art Don't believe the hype folks. Puppetry has been around in one form or another since the dawn of human civilization. It's mankind's oldest art form. At it's most basic CG is just another form of puppetry. I do completely agree that CG shouldn't be used just for the...

Something worth noting is that Io is in the Netherlands and the restrictions on copyright may be different there - I'm not sure but you always have to check the laws of whatever country you're in because they're all different. It's often surprisingly easy to get clearance for independent films...

Yup, once the first season is done (mid-2005) there will be a "remix" on DVD. The scripts for the first season of the series were culled from a feature length screenplay so for the DVD I'm basically going to be re-editing the season so it's one long movie (any episodes/footage from the series...

That didn't work for me, and it's not going to work for you either. :p BTW everyone, I'm running a little poll here to get some feedback for "Bear Town". As some of you know, while I always plan to have the most recent episode of Bear Town available for free I'm also going to use Bitpass to...

Looks like the Transformers Movie hasn't been picked up by a studio yet or had a director or screenwriter attached to it yet so it does seem to be in the early stages of development.

Is Transformers back on track to get made? They keep *saying* they are going to make it but there's been no serious movement on it in Hollywood unless something new happened recently.

Ask a ye shall recieve ;) http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/angrypuppets/detail?.dir=/f37d&.dnm=ac5b.jpg&.src=ph It was supposed to made entirely out of Lego, but it ended up being too heavy so the body was carved from a block of foam. Each piece of Lego had to be individually sanded and...

Hi all, File this under shameless self-promotion, but I forgot to post this over the weekend, but I got interviewed about Bear Town and puppetry in general recently for The Epiguide. I've never been interviewed about my own puppetry work so I was pretty excited about this! :D You can read...

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