(photo credit: Bryan Woltjen)
The Esperance Festival of the Wind was held on 22 March this year. The festival began as an art-themed celebration of the positive energy wind brings to the town of Esperance, Western Australia, but it has now evolved into a celebration of ‘community, art, culture and shared fun’. Puppet designer and [...]
There has been a great deal of buzz about the tutorial that Project Puppet has just recently been offering on their blog. I am a huge fan of Project Puppet and a great admirer of the amazing talents of puppet builder and designer Pasha Romanowski.
This tutorial is an excellent resource for beginners and experienced builders [...]
The Wippets just introduced a new character to join their cast of puppets. The new character was built by the very talented Jarrod Boutcher! I think this new character is a perfect example of excellent character/puppet design by Ron and, of course, a beautiful follow through by Jarrod. Take a look at the Wippets Blog [...]
I have been debating over the last little while about if I should or should not be posting about the things that our own contibutors to Puppet Buzz are doing in the puppetry world. I have come to the realization that some of the stuff they are doing is too great to not post [...]
It’s a bit crazy, even scary, to imagine a million puppets of all sorts in one place, but that’s the objective of the Million Puppet Project which was launched yesterday (on World Puppetry Day) by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre in Western Australia. Under the project, people from around the world are invited to make [...]
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted last, but now I’m back and starting anew with this video I’ve found on YouTube. I haven’t been able to get any info on it, but it looks amazing! Enjoy for now, and I’ll post here again soon.
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Something that I have been thinking a lot about recently is the idea of creating a “name for yourself” (reputation) as a builder. I know I have worked very hard to do so and it is always a thrill when someone says they know my work or that I built a puppet that inspired [...]
When starting a new puppet it’s good to make a drawing of your ideas before you begin to build. Perhaps you’d like to try out some charachter designs, changing hair, placement of eyes, nose etc. Why not use your computer for this. You can get great results using photoshop and illustrator. Here’s
a link i found [...]
Ben Jones, one of the contributors here at Puppet Buzz, has added a puppet supplies section to his site, PuppetMinister.com. What is the first item available you ask? The ever elusive half dome eyes that typically are very hard to find or can only be purchased in bulk. Thanks Ben!
Paul Louis from Puppetsnstuff.com has a free puppet-making video tutorial on ExpertVillage.com. It’s actually a series of videos that starts at a list of materials and ends with adding arm rods. Check the videos out here!
