Puppets

The thing I love about puppets is how we give them personality and life. There is literally nothing there, but we endow them with being – both the puppeteer and the audience.

Here is a video with a sampling of my puppets. The infinitely talented Matthew Reinheimer composed the music.

And be sure to watch the “Behind the Scenes” below, showing how the intro video was created. It’s old-school puppetry; everything except for the firefly was captured in-camera. A lot of talented people, as always, brought it to life. Music again by Matthew Reinheimer.

The puppet building process usually starts with a sketch, then sculpting a scale model maquette to work out the personality and proportions. Here are couple examples of that, followed by a variety of different puppets I’ve built.

JACK IN THE BOX