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Here are the top-ten entries in the Design a Vader contest we're running over at AskPalpatine.com. One of these babies will get turned into a puppet: http://www.forum.askpalpatine.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=52 We got 22 submissions, which just blows my mind. I have a couple favorites, but I...

Can anyone think of any all-puppet productions (TV or Movies) that are sci-fi? I don't mean a Farscape, with puppet characters, but an entirely puppet-based production. The only one that comes to mind is "Brats of the Lost Nebula," but that's a very comedic show, and it can't be the only one...

The focus on this is less the Palpatine puppet and more my little brother, but it's pretty funny, so I thought I'd share. I hope you all can indulge me. :) http://www.askpalpatine.com/2008/08/22/ask-palpatine-30-good-times-with-weapons/

Hey all, Two questions: I'm trying to think of titles both for myself and Maddy for Hoggworks. I could list myself as a puppeteer, but there are a large number of other jobs I do in the course of making the videos, the puppets, doing the creative planning, etc. I think of a title like, say...

Hey all, I asked this before a long time ago, but I was hoping to get a heads up of puppeteers in the Toronto/GTA/surrounding area. I know a lot of you, but I'd love to know if there are more people who are in the area since the last time I asked. I'm in Kitchener, but will be in Guelph some...

Hey all, Are there any patterns out there, or sources of patterns, for simple/complex clothing for puppets? I realize that this is a bit of a tough question, considering that every puppet is fairly unique, but considering the general body shapes that get made, it seems like there ought to be...

Hey all, So over at Ask Palpatine, 26 episodes in, we've got new discussion forums, and two contests. One is to give Palpatine a new first name -- he's so old he forgets what his original name was -- and the other, where you can win a prize, is a design contest where you design a better looking...

Any Guelph-area puppeteers out there? We'll be moving in a couple months, and I'd love to meet any colleagues that might be there in the town. Raise your hand! Thanks, Brian

On the occasion of Canada Day, Brian the puppet shares why he's proud to be Canadian: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=mBBVbaaKZiY

Hey guys, Check it out, I finished my Bono puppet. I got it done in pretty good time, too: it only took me about a week to do, and it turned out pretty well. http://flickr.com/photos/inelegant/sets/72157605759679230/ What do you think?

Since it's been discussed on here before: http://www.spore.com/trial You can download the trial of the creature creator now, for both PC and Mac. Enjoy...

Hey all, So there's going to be a protest next Thursday, in front of the Colbert Report studios. It's a protest against their blatant disregard of the Colbert Puppet. What are they afraid of? Puppets? Do they have something against Puppet-Americans? If you're in the NYC area, and you want to...

Hey all, Someone sent me a great suggestion to try to get people to picket the Colbert Report filming, in order to get attention for the Stephen Colbert Puppet Challenge. I think it's a pretty neat idea, and the person who suggested it to me suggested I could get puppeteers interested, so I'm...

Hey all, I've finished my crazy pie-in-the-sky video using the Colbert puppet I made. Now I've but to sit back and wait for Comedy Central to call ... :) http://puppetchallenge.hoggworks.com/

Hey all, Since I'm nearly to the halfway point of designing the puppets for my outrageously overly-ambitious demo reel project (which will take a year and serve as something of a Master's course for me), I thought I'd share the sketches I've done of the first 19 puppets. Only 23 more to go...

Hey all, Does anybody have any opinion of this book? http://www.monstermakers.com/product/the-monster-makers-mask-makers-handbook-pdf.html It looks cool, but I'm wondering if it would be applicable to latex puppet making, or just to mask making. I assume they're not substantially different, of...

Super-rough of a design I'm doing for a pitch I can't, unfortunately, say anything about: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inelegant/2449466205/

Hey all, In my continuing attempts to make Hoggworks into a real studio, I am coming up against a need of a business plan. Now, I have lots of thoughts on the setup of the business, with the focus of getting advertising/tv/film clients, and producing our own shows in house, for distribution...

Hey all, I built the Gideon puppet for the FITC design festival in Toronto, which I blathered on about, and I got to use him! The festival was at the beginning of this week, and so I've begun the process of uploading some of the 11 video segments that were recorded. They'll be put up on the...

Hey all, I'm curious to know if any of you can recommend any foam that I can use for set-pieces. What I want to do is shape it for some background elements, then paint it to make it look shiny and metallic; what kind of foam works for that? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!