Hello,

Recently worked on this video with a friend and want to share it around. Hope it's enjoyed!

https://youtu.be/23sxbMiNcsA?si=DBSlEdrh1K93ubwK

Crossposting this from r/puppets!
Here’s a scene from a traditional Japanese Ningyo Joruri production.

The oni grows huge, steps on a samurai, and then gets scolded by his mother and starts crying. 😂
The tear mechanism didn’t quite cooperate during this take, so he ended up crying with just one eye!

Ningyo Joruri combines puppetry with live Jōruri narration, shamisen music, and traditional Japanese theater musicians.

I thought this community might enjoy seeing a little bit of Japanese string puppetry and the occasional backstage mishap! 🎭

Sharing our story of a true legend in the field of puppetry, John Bell! The University of Connecticut, which offers the country’s only degree-granting program in puppetry of its kind, is saying goodbye to Bell, who has spent nearly 20 years teaching students and leading the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry on campus.

How do I start? I kinda wanna do a hand puppet thing to start in my local park. Like actually just use my hands as a puppet. I can make a duck with my hands and I want to use just my hands as a impromptu type of unique duck hand puppet type of thing and entertain people in the park in such a way for extra money if I put a tip bucket out

hey guys uhh new to this sub reddit so hi but I need to know for any muppet people anyone have access to a live hand sack puppet pattern I lost the pattern pieces from mine and I can’t find the file anywhere so please if you guys could please share a file and help me out please and thank you

(Screencaps come from a few BTS reels posted by the crew when the film was originally cancelled: first is from the one that went viral and got taken down by Warner Bros, the rest of the images are from a video Ivan Puentes posted on his Instagram)

I was at a screening of Coyote vs Acme last night and was pleasantly surprised to spot Dave Barclay credited as "Puppeteer"! Apparently this was information that Barclay has been open about for years and the director has been talking about it in recent interviews, but it kind of flew under my radar. According to Will Forte during the Q&A after the screening, Barclay built the Looney Tunes puppets himself and would rehearse with the actors for reference and even perform them for a few takes before he'd be swapped out with a tennis ball.

Some of you might remember David Barclay played a similar role with B Lanoil on Looney Tunes: Back in Action. In that case, the puppets were originally built by the Creature Shop, but when they turned out to be too large Barclay rebuilt them himself.

Here's hoping you'll enjoy this week's newsletter. Included is some news about when the sequel to "Street Gang" will be available for preorder.

Super excited for this, it's janky and I need to filter out the stuttering but soon I'll be able to rig up anything I want in blender and puppeteer it. This is all in a personal custom blender script because the one I was using wasn't quite what I needed

Green man-eater Puppet, it supposed to be released soon in mid August.

Ask me for the whole story 😁

I’m posting a few more clips from this years parade. https://puppetsup.com/

The last time I made a puppet, it was over 30 years ago, so there were no online tutorials to work from. I’ve learned a lot since then. If I were to make this one, I’m thinking they’d have rod arms… the mouth would be made wider, the neck would end up thicker… there are melon head and Jerry templates that have the width, but the mouth always seems to be halfway on the head… I’m curious if there are any similar where the cranium is taller than the jaw, but is still wider than taller… I may have to modify an existing template… blinking eyes would be nice, but I may want to start easier…

Thoughts? Advice?

Hey, r/puppetry! We're on a dedicated mission to produce the most charming and believable "puppetronic" (yes, you read that right!) robot the world has ever seen. Our current build shares attributes of both a puppet and a robot. We'd love to get your feedback as we continue to build. 😄

Please don't hesitate to drop your thoughts or questions in the comments! If you'd like to see more progress clips like this, please let me know that as well!

I want to be a able to get full eyeball movement using one finger controlling a 3D printed joystick mechanism that connects to two bike cables, each controlling either the X or Y axis. Basically an analog version of animatronic eyes.

Has anyone tried this before?

Any recommendations of festivals subscriptions around the world? I run a puppet theater company and was wondering if here i could expand our contacts.

Made this for Oregon country fair just for fun to up my whimsy! It’s leg fell off and definitely have a lot of practice to do but still love it