Police Puppets: The Fuzz

If you haven’t seen it, you need to. “It’s Sesame Street meets The Wire” – Tagline from IMDB The Fuzz is a series combining puppets as puppets living in a real world with real people like the muppets. Its a cop show with puppets like Rodger Rabbit is a hard boiled detective story with animation. […]

Flat Eric

Remember those Levi’s commercials with a car driving down the street with a yellow puppet rocking out to electronic music? That little guy was Flat Eric. “Flat Eric is a low-tech, yellow puppet character from Levi’s commercials for Sta-Prest One Crease Denim Clothing, built by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. His name comes from an idea for […]

Getting Felt up Podcast

Ever desired some puppet stuff to listen to? Try Getting Felt Up! Getting Felt Up! is a podcast run by Daniel Becker and Nate Begle. Two puppeteers that met and bonded on an ImaginOcean tour. Both are puppet builders and performers in the New York and Pennsylvania area that bring on their fellow puppeteers and their new friends in […]

Wormwood

Three months back, I took BJ Guyer’s Foam carving class at Stan Winston.  At the same time they release on-demand his How to build an Arm-Rod Puppet class.  This is a quick result based on this class. Using BJ’s class he provides patterns for hand, skull, body, and mouth plate. He walks through putting all this […]

Puppet Productions

My first throwback Thursday is Puppet Productions (1970-2009), but that company is no longer with us. The good news is their designs live on with Frontier Creations™ aka Puppets Inc. This was the creator of my first “professional” puppet. I loved puppets as a kid, loved Sesame Street and the Muppets, and the small independent toy store down […]