How To Make Puppets and Costumes

How to Hide Seams When Sewing Puppet Fabric

By on April 26, 2011 / Comments Off

Video on how to hide puppet stitch with polyester fleece. This is a tutorial about how to hide the seams on a puppet. I’ve made a video using polyester fabric and I’ve done some illustration on how to do it with antron fleece. Antron Fleece is 100% cotton fleece that stretchy and holds pigments very ...

Making Blinking Puppet Eyes

By on January 23, 2011 / Leave a comment

How to Make Blinking Puppet Eyes For this tutorial I’m writing about how to make blinking puppet eyes. Making your puppet’s eyes blink is a very easy task and I’ve tried to illustrate the job step by step in the PDF . (Blink Puppet Eye Schematic PDF.) Another great resource is the tutorial located at ...

Making Puppet Teeth with a Block Mold

By on November 27, 2010 / 8 Comments

So I wanted to make some foam latex teeth for a puppet that I could later use for other characters. This post is an example of teeth made with Sculpey that are made to be molded with silicone rubber and later cast with flex it foam or maybe even just silicone rubber. I’ve started using ...

How to Make Puppet Videos

By on November 05, 2010 / Leave a comment

Making puppet videos is easy once you have the basic necessities in order. I suggest videoing puppets over a green screen, also known as chroma keying. I also suggest using an external microphone and headphones to monitor your voice. Below is an outline of these two major puppet videoing techniques. Green Screen for Puppet Videos ...

Making Mr. Billy Business

By on October 14, 2010 / 3 Comments

Mr. Business is the boss everyone can relate to. He's the manager I had when doing design work for a banking company that kept track of how often you used the bathroom. He's the HR guy who know you were exactly 30 seconds late.

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