Emptey headed...or eyed

[Super Scooter]

Originally posted by Fozzie Bear

It's like when someone is talking to my puppet, Muley, and they later explain the conversation and they're telling all about his different facial expressions he made while talking to them, about how his eyes got really wide, and..well...he isn't made to do that. His expression is always the same, it's just how they PERCEIVE his actions.

It's amazing what people think they see, when they really don't.

In how you postion your hand, the eyes on the puppets head, etc, you can make people believe almost anything! My one character, Don (really wish I'd come up with a better name than Don), his eyes are two ping-pong balls sitting on top of his head (I added eyebrows cut out of hard felt ontop of the ping-pong balls to give him a more distinct look, because everyone kept saying he looked like Cookie Monster). If you move your hand just right, without even moving his head, it looks like he's looking up, or looking down. I cna make him go bug-eyed, and I can make him look like he's about to cry. The face never changes, just how you perceive him, like you said.

I love fooling people into believeing something that isn't even real. If you can yank an emotional response out of someone with a puppet, you know you're good.