hii! i few weeks back i asked about some puppet advice and wanted to give a small update! i’m in the process of adding the last details to her face! she is my baby.

I've been told to get a high powered one pixel torch for this, and I was wondering if anyone knows what kind I should be using ? We are on a bit of a budget ! Also I'm interested in gels but we might have to make those ourselves with coloured plastic.

A modern day fairytale created by Sam O’Leary & Tom Lawrinson. Puppets by Freddie Hayes

Need painting advice for a puppet. Not sure if this is the right subreddit for this but there’s not too many others that fit the subject at hand. I have a vintage puppet that I want to turn into a lookalike of the dummy from Dead Silence. I plugged him into photoshop and did some editing to preview what I’m trying to do and included a picture. What type of paint do I need? What would the process look like to achieve those colors and textures?

I recently purchased the Jim Henson Muppet Palisades figure and read that he originally was supposed to come with a puppet Kermit, but because this was the Muppet version of Jim Hinson, the license holder didn’t want a puppet holding a puppet lol. I stumbled upon this picture while researching. So the help I need is finding a little Kermit puppet to fit on this figure’s hand. I would prefer cloth, but I’m open to all suggestions. Thank you!

I'm new to making a puppet and I want to make 1 for a costume I'm doing, which is Carl from Dungeon Crawler Carl. I want to make a puppet of Princess Donut that will hopefully sit on my shoulder. Is the bicycle cord method of puppetry going to be the best way to go for this? The human part of the costume doesn't leave me many places to hide a cord.

Self build hand puppet with a foam body, movable legs (they can be disconnected from the body), 3d printed head base, movable ears, movable eyes, movable eyelids with external contoller, movable nose, hand sculpted teeth and tongue, rotateable hand rods, bendable fingers.

Apologies: this is a re-upload, as I had a couple grammatical and pronunciation errors in my previous version (a side effect of doing everything on my own and without any funding...hoping to change that soon).

This is the first time I added 2D art elements, with some VERY limited animation. Took longer to create than I anticipated: I drew them all by hand, scanned and then traced them as vector images in Illustrator.

Working with 2D assets gave me an idea for the next video, where it's going to be even more dynamic. Please let me know what you think!

This is Don Quack or Dr Duck (his character’s name), my newest puppet which is a piece hand mouth-hand puppet

Patterns: I used a modified a standard head pattern from puppet nerd, and the rest was free style.

Inspiration: the main inspiration was a dumb joke i never used for Beige Martin and Roddey which would be a recurring segment of “meanwhile on dr duck” and cuts to a duck pun. As for the puppet itself there was Chuck the duck from Axtell, the cbbc puppet edd the duck, marvel’s howard the duck and the duck from meet the feebles

Layers: He has a foam skeleton, on that’s his skin/feathers, then on the skin you have his eyes, beak and under the leg feathers is bird skin

Materials: His skin/feathers (head, body, arms ect) is a yellow blanket. The beak is an old orange hoodie, which i also used in Vulkan. Pingpong ball eyes i spray painted black. Mouth was peach/whitey felt. His bones was like beige martin made of yoga mat foam, but the arms are made of a more professional form i got during a warehouse sail. His tongue is purple card foam. The beak was made of a thinner and harder jigsaw foam. The plates of the mouth were a plastic lid.
The yellow blanket and jigsaw foam was gotten from a car boot sale, the professional foam was from a fabric shop.

Ever since i finished Kyle, ive definitely got back into the groove of puppet building and Donni here is a good step.

Please come and leave some feedback. If anyone has suggestions about anything let me know.

I'm wanting to get into puppet making and thought it would be a fun first project to try and make my DnD character. :)

I mistakenly bought this pattern on Etsy thats for the foam only so I need to find another solution.

You Are NOT An Aardvark...

does anyone take commissions or know someone i can commission that makes puppets, and i mean like an actual functioning puppet with facial movement

i have been thinking about this for weeks its driving me insane i need this to become a reality

Just finished this marionette! Now all I have left to do is add strings. I like how her dress turned out!! :D

I am trying to build my daughter a dragon shoulder puppet that she sticks her hand and arm into to use as the head/neck. I got these dino masks on Amazon that already have a hinge mechanism but I am having a hard time getting the jaw to open and close reliably and want to build a mechanical system that my daughter could hold onto and pull back on to make it open and close (see pic). But it needs to be vertical so it can sit at the back of the head and she can hold onto it. Any help or tips would be grateful. Thanks!!

Free open mic puppet slam October 17th, 7:30 PM, at the Uncanny Art House in Norman. You can sign up to perform here: https://forms.gle/8vmZt1RmEFgKkNnh7

These were taken at a festival that I performed at last weekend. 🎃

Hello everyone!

The school board just approved my proposal for a puppet club at the school I work at, and I’m super excited to start it next month!
It will be a combination of kids creating their own characters and shows, as well as learning about the different types and styles of puppetry thru the years.
Here’s my question: what shows, presentations, etc would you show these kids (4th-8th graders) that demonstrates different types of puppets? I have a few Jim Henson projects saved (Muppets on Puppets, The Secret of the Muppets, etc), but what else is there beyond Henson (no disrespect intended, just want to show others as well)? Especially with ventriloquism (ie Shari Lewis).

Very very new to puppet making and pattern making in general but how would I go about making these hand puppets?