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Yeah, I think he's trying to get around that by saying "for at home use only" but it is a copyright violation. Still, a pretty good Grover.

I just noticed this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19233&item=3187805884

Wow, looks great. Well designed and filled with useful info. Well done.

Thanks Jinx and Buck. Any other ideas or experiences appreciated.

As mentioned in the eyebrow thread, i was recently poking around the thrift stores. While there I didn't see any puppets, but there was a nice Ernie plush toy with the mouth open. I could open and close the mouth easily from the outside, and thought, hey, how hard could it be to turn this into a...

As far as the wrinkling goes, I should note that this was only noticeable in the extreme close up of Bert. Even in the regular close up it was not noticeable, but in the XCU you could see the slight gathering/wrinkling of the fabric under the lower thread. Come to think of it, I think his...

Eyebrow update Well, as fate would have it, I was shopping in a thrift store (looking for puppet supplies) and Sesame Street was on one of the crappy TVs they were selling. And there was Bert singing to Ernie (?!?). They had a long closeup of Bert and you could definitely make out the thin...

I have an Animal puppet, and while I love the eyebrows on it, it combines eyebrow and eyelids, and also relies on a very strong shell inside the puppet so you can push hard against the lever that controls the eyebrows. I'm looking to do something simpler, more like Bert. I've taken a close look...

Wow, great links (although the eyes on those dolls are a little spooky). The second link in particular had some nice pictures of the mechanism he uses inside the head. I thought of another way I might do this that would be very simple. Each eyebrow could be attached at the ends and loose in the...

I've been pondering the easiest way to do eyebrows that I can move them up and down. I think Bert :( can do this trick. The easier the solution the better, they don't have to move much. I've come up with two ideas so far: 1) put the eyebrows on a stick that pokes through the forehead down to...

Just the info I was looking for Hey, I was just about to post a question on this very subject and then found this thread. Good info here. What I found is that cutting foam with a scissors doesn't work because it pinches the foam before cutting it and you end up with a concave instead of a flat...

Wow, that's very interesting. Do you recall where you heard or read that? If even Frank Oz has this problem I guess I don't feel so bad. Buck-Beaver, I know some singing warmups and do them from time to time. They do help, but it's kind of like doing stretching exercises before you go...

You know, I'd tend to think that since there are people who just naturally have gravelly voices, except that Jim Henson wasn't one of them. His speaking voice (and his Kermit voice) was pretty mellifluous, yet some of his characters like Rowlf or Dr. Teeth had a gravelly voice.

my 2 cents I used to work in traditional cel animation for several years, worked on a fairy tale series and even a Captain Crunch commercial, then got some (brief) experience with doing it on computer (using Flash, etc.). I have to second what ekuska says about story boarding. No matter what...

Hi, I just discovered this great forum and this is my first post. So hi! I'm fairly good at doing voices of many muppet characters, but if I do one of the more gravelly voiced characters (Animal, Grover, etc.) for too long, my throat gets sore. Are there any tricks anyone knows for dealing...