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Awesome, thanks. How expensive is that kind of foam? I don't think I've ever bought any.

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!

Hey, check it out: I'm finally starting to build the set framework I planned back in November: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inelegant/sets/72157604536830313/ I'll have fully half of the chunks built today, and the other half will get put in probably a couple/few weeks. The remarkable part of...

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Hey all, I finished this one a little while ago, but haven't mentioned his existence to anyone. He's Todd the Emo. The original intent was for him to appear on The Merlin Show, but that show became a different beast, and poor Todd was left homeless. Nevertheless, he is finished and will, after...

Thanks! The character design was provided by Ron Doucet of the Wippets, which I modified slightly. But the end result is pretty close to what the original concept was.

This puppet was built for the Wippets. He's something of a sleezy salesman. http://flickr.com/photos/inelegant/2398094434/ http://flickr.com/photos/inelegant/2398033280/ http://flickr.com/photos/inelegant/2398033320/ Check it out!

Hey guys, Related to the Finding Work thread, this is the program ad I've got in the upcoming FITC design festival. It speaks to awesome ways puppets can be incorporated into your creative, and will be seen, however furtively, by all sorts of people in large agencies...

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Hey Toasty, I appreciate your detailed, thoughtful post. I'm probably going to go longer than 60 seconds, and it'll end up being much more than just an assemblage of stuff I've already done. I can do better, now, and I want to sell people on that, rather than what's already happened (without...

Yeah, I suppose he does have a bit of a Zim style, though that's unintentional. :) His name is now Gideon, because even though Git is suitably descriptive, it is a straight-up derogatory term. Gideon will be interviewing some of the speakers of the festival, both before the festival and during...

A formal business plan probably does make a lot of sense. I need to make one of those.

That's a very good, very thoughtful reply, Andrew. Thanks. I get what you're saying about puppets, and I suppose it was unnecessary flippant of me to suggest that you were thinking solely of a new name, and not a new description for the puppet-related services you're providing. I think it's...

Andrew, what term other than puppets might you suggest? I agree that the first thought people have when you say puppets is that you're doing kid stuff, which can work to a person's advantage in the end product, as you're able to deftly subvert expectations, but getting to that point becomes...

I've seen the Muppet show pitch video, which I liked. The demo reel/pitch video wouldn't be just a collection of video I've done, it would need to be a showing of the best of what I can do, which is better than when I did dotBoom. I'm thinking of having some character walking through "the...

I do that as a freelancer, and I actually had that setup for a while (until the job stopped being workable, for a variety of reasons). The problem with that, for me personally, is that I tend to have the laser-like focus, obsessively so, and if I am right beside the fun stuff, and it's quiet for...

That's some high-quality stuff, right there. I'm digging that show.

No, I just mean in response to one of the earlier comments about taking every opportunity to push yourself as a video puppeteer. There's crossover for me, as agency folks will have a potential desire for those services, so it makes sense to make a point of mentioning them, but the far safer bet...

I'm actually a web developer/programmer/designer by day, for the rent payments, so I'm well familiar with the structure at the ad agencies. :) I need the killer package to send them to immediately get their attention, though. That's the time-intensive and tricky part. Thanks for the link for...

That was totally an accident, but I'm happy to take the credit for it. :)