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ynwtf
09-14-19, 09:55 PM
lol random, I know, but any of you have real experience building puppets? Particularly hand puppets with arms. Think Crank Yankers or Dr. Bunsen of The Muppet Show.

Bonus round:
Any experience with animatronics or Arduino and rotors like for controlling eyes and more complex facial gestures?
Captain Steel
09-14-19, 10:41 PM
All I know is that Yoda insists on puppetry! ;)
Chypmunk
09-15-19, 04:43 AM
This might not count but I did once knit a sock puppet when I was a very small child and yes, to a fashion, it did have arms. I can't remember what it was actually supposed to be (probably a scarf or wooly hat, definitely not a jumpsuit or condom) and it only ended up being a sock puppet because my knitting was so horrendously bad that was the only thing it could feasibly be sewn as.

Didn't have no animatronics in it though.

I've not even held a knitting needle for nigh on five decades but reckon I could still probably guide you on how to knit one yerself if you like (iirc the secret lies in dropping stitches in a rather haphazard fashion even though the pattern might not call for any to be dropped).
Citizen Rules
09-15-19, 01:23 PM
I use to hunt sock puppets, that's all I got:p
SeeingisBelieving
09-15-19, 01:30 PM
lol random, I know, but any of you have real experience building puppets? Particularly hand puppets with arms. Think Crank Yankers or Dr. Bunsen of The Muppet Show.

Bonus round:
Any experience with animatronics or Arduino and rotors like for controlling eyes and more complex facial gestures?

Sadly not.
ynwtf
09-15-19, 02:06 PM
lol.
SeeingisBelieving
09-15-19, 02:14 PM
Although Yoda will tell you I insist on puppetry.
ynwtf
10-16-19, 07:05 PM
I use to hunt sock puppets, that's all I got:p



waaaaaaait.
you hunted? puppets??
please elaborate!

I imagine an angry Orson Welles, drunk from 9 bottles of '78 vintage Paul Masson, stumbling along the Serengeti throwing wooden spears at sock puppets that are in search of water and seasonal mating grounds. All while he's in a dried grass skirt and a coconut bra for support.

Please tell me I'm right!?

:D
Chypmunk
10-16-19, 07:07 PM
I imagine an angry Orson Welles, drunk from 9 bottles of '78 vintage Paul Masson, stumbling along the Serengeti throwing wooden spears at sock puppets that are in search of water and seasonal mating grounds. All while he's in a dried grass skirt and a coconut bra for support.
Why, oh why, oh why, is this not a movie already?????
ynwtf
10-16-19, 07:09 PM
Why, oh why, oh why, is this not a movie already?????

Welles' he's dead, Jim.





:D
Chypmunk
10-16-19, 07:26 PM
Welles' he's dead, Jim.





:D
Welles that's no reason not to make the movie, could always dig him up. Sure, some might remark that his acting's a bit stiff and that he does have a tendency to corpse but hey, what performer hasn't had that accusation levelled at them at some point or another.
ynwtf
10-17-19, 01:53 PM
I still want a puppet. Custom puppets are EXPENSIVE. gosh.

=/
ynwtf
02-07-22, 06:27 PM
Bump for great justice and the relatively new(ish) user base. I need puppets!!! still.
Captain Steel
02-07-22, 06:51 PM
"Puppet experience" - can I use that for the title of my autobiography?
John Dumbear
02-07-22, 08:10 PM
Too late to suggest an Orson Welles sock puppet?
MovieGal
02-07-22, 09:54 PM
I have bought some from

http://www.thepuppetforge.com/

They come to Planet Comicon almost every year.

I have a red one with horns and flames on his body named Luc and a purple dragon named Drac.
doubledenim
02-07-22, 11:40 PM
My worst nightmares featured puppets in the starring role.
CringeFest
02-08-22, 03:37 PM
can any of you "throw your voice"?
ynwtf
02-08-22, 05:50 PM
can any of you "throw your voice"?


I practiced ventriloquism back in highschool years ago just using a handkerchief folded up like a rabbit head. Mostly for goofs and party tricks. Our parties were the church youth group type, so.


Now, I just want a proper puppet just cuz.
Rockatansky
02-08-22, 06:19 PM
https://www.top10films.co.uk/img/magic_anthony-hopkins.jpg
You want one like this?
ynwtf
02-08-22, 06:30 PM
https://www.top10films.co.uk/img/magic_anthony-hopkins.jpg
You want one like this?

Uuuuuuuh. I had apparently finally gotten that terror out of my memories. Thanks, yo.




lol
Captain Steel
02-08-22, 07:11 PM
I practiced ventriloquism back in highschool years ago just using a handkerchief folded up like a rabbit head. Mostly for goofs and party tricks. Our parties were the church youth group type, so.


Now, I just want a proper puppet just cuz.

Being a ventriloquist was one of my childhood aspirations (in addition to being a scientist, magician, stand-up comedian, singer, writer, paleontologist, cartoonist, comic book artist, etc.)

I never could "throw my voice" but I got pretty good at learning how to speak without moving my lips (much).

I still have a puppet I had from when I was younger - I remember asking my mom to buy it for me and she thought I was much too old for it. That's because at first she thought it was a plush animal doll, but it was a puppet - a yellow duck with an orange bill and cotton ball-like eyes. He looks similar to a Sesame Street style muppet. Strange thing is we bought it at a drug store in town that is still the drug store I use today! Problem is; a hole wore on the inside of his bill (mouth), but you can stick a finger through and it looks like he has a tooth!