practicecactus
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I was thinking about how you operate a puppet and realised something about Kermit.
For some reason it hit me like a ton of bricks..Whenever I saw footage of Jim Henson holding his hand up in place of a puppet, he had his fingers curved, in a relaxed way.Not flat out like 'The Duck' ya tend to make, and I never realised..Kermit's head doesn't have the padding between his fingers and the top of his head, it's underneathe. Between his fingers and the mouth plate.
I feel like such an idiot.
I'm not sure if this has ever been brought up before.
I was bored one day and made a little puppet using that 'plush kermit pattern' and as soon as I put my hand in, realised it needed a peice of foam in the head or something cause the kermit face scrunch didn't look right, but now it makes so much sense.
It was obvious Kermit's head had something inside to give it shape, I just never thought the fingers were curved. It's so much more comfortable.
And if you even wanna get philosophical about it, you can say Jim was relaxed in his manner and the way he performed, which translates to Kermit and his character.
It's the simplist of things yet I never realised the subtlety of it.
For some reason it hit me like a ton of bricks..Whenever I saw footage of Jim Henson holding his hand up in place of a puppet, he had his fingers curved, in a relaxed way.Not flat out like 'The Duck' ya tend to make, and I never realised..Kermit's head doesn't have the padding between his fingers and the top of his head, it's underneathe. Between his fingers and the mouth plate.
I feel like such an idiot.
I'm not sure if this has ever been brought up before.
I was bored one day and made a little puppet using that 'plush kermit pattern' and as soon as I put my hand in, realised it needed a peice of foam in the head or something cause the kermit face scrunch didn't look right, but now it makes so much sense.
It was obvious Kermit's head had something inside to give it shape, I just never thought the fingers were curved. It's so much more comfortable.
And if you even wanna get philosophical about it, you can say Jim was relaxed in his manner and the way he performed, which translates to Kermit and his character.
It's the simplist of things yet I never realised the subtlety of it.