Mathieu Rene© is an amazing artist/mask maker and puppet builder from Montreal, Quebec. I ran in to him at a puppetry festival last summer and we exchanged praises. I will continue that by talking a bit about his new puppets. He has created a wondeful dragon and an excellent teddy bear puppet. These are amazing [...]
The long awaited second PlaySoup video on puppet building featuring Dave Privett is now available. Both videos are available for a package price or owners of the first video can get a discount. The first one was a great investment.
Get yours today.
This little nugget of puppety goodness, though its been in circulation on the web for a while, recently resurfaced over at PuppetBuilding.com. The article was originally published in a 1969 issue of Women’s Day Magazine and includes a play, The Purple-Necked, Black Bearded Blatch, written by Jerry Juhl, and patterns and instructions for four puppets, [...]
As I gear up to make my own online puppet show, I have been running across a bunch of indiviuals who I have gained inspiration from. One of these people is puppet builder/puppeteer and all around amazing artist Michael Paraskevas. Michael is perhaps best know for the book series turned kids’ show Maggie and The Ferocious [...]
I have mentioned one of my favourite builders before named Matt Ficner (visit his flash site here). He is also a very talented puppeteer. Well Matt has been recently working with a company overseas on a few projects and one of the projects is called Planet Bizzaro.
This video clip is from that project and features [...]
For those of you who do not already know, Swazzle is a California based puppetry company that specializes in quality live puppet shows. The members are accomplished puppeteers, puppet builders and artists. They have collectively a wealth of information that could impress anyone.
Well Swazzle has decided to put out a casting call and started looking [...]
(Warning: Some of the language may be considered PG-13)
I had the opportunity to meet Ryan Dillon last summer briefy in New York. I was fortunate enough to see his improv skills with puppets and I was very impressed. Well it would seem that Ryan has posted some of his improv and puppet test on You [...]
Sorry for the slip in postings, all contributors have been very busy with their “real lives”. Anyways, here is some more news regarding Avenue Q coming to Toronto.
For their season launch, the creators of the Avenue Q puppets made an Aubrey Dan puppet. Here is a shot of the puppet with CAP Agent Julie Ugar. Dancap [...]
