Recent content by Melonpool

I’m still chugging along. I just fignished Henrietta and am working on King Friday.

Still chugging along. Finally posted a tutorial

I just realized that I never actually posted any pictures of my X the Owl prototype. My plan is to do a series of tutorials in the next few weeks as I make the final puppet at www.xtheowlfiles.com.

So, I know this is a really old thread, but this last week, I got a fire under me to finally start building the Neighborhood of Make Believe puppets. I finished the first prototype for X the Owl puppet last night. I’ve been a professional puppet builder for the last 15 ywars or so, but there’s...

It's not really a replica, but I decided to build a Lady Elaine-like puppet that looked like Dr. Smith from "Lost in Space." I've been a puppet designer and builder for the last 20 years but had never built a glove-style puppet before (I mainly build hand and rod puppets like Muppets). Anyway...

Thanks! It's been really fun! Last year, Ron Shusett came and gave us a glowing review. We couldn't be happier with the response so far!

So, we returned to the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival with a bigger and better version of Alien vs. Musical. After five sold out performances, we got extended for four more shows in June/July. If you're in the Hollywood area, I wanted to extend a discount code to RPF members: AVM16RPF...

The response has been amazing. We sold out our first performance and tickets are going crazy fast to our shows. We just got added as one of the "Picks of the Fringe" yesterday and will be performing part of our show in a showcase tomorrow night. We kind of feel like the little engine that could...

Here's another shot from our first performance.

Hi all! My buddy and I are doing a show as oart of the Hollywood Fringe Festival called "Alien vs. Musical." For the last several years, I've been building hand puppets for TV and film in the "glove and rod" style popularized by the Muppets. In addition to co-writing the book for this musical...

So, I watched all of the videos that you posted links to today -- I had only seen some raw low-quality footage of some of these panels, so they were treasure trove of information for me. Of particular interest was this photo of Marion's mech (as seen from below -- your middle finger would rest...

Those were some great videos! That screen capture of Marion's innards cleared up a lot of things for me about Nelson's eye mech. Will probably start patterning something in the next week or so -- at least a prototype!

I tell you, I have a pretty good idea on how to build the foam, mouthplate and how to pattern the fur (even if I end up using off-the-shelf synthetic fur and boil it to make it look less synthetic). But the mechs for the eyes and ears are a bit of a stumbling block for me. The ears are on...

I know this is a super old thread, but did you ever do any work on this project? I'm a puppet builder and have a little bit of free time and was thinking about trying to build a Nelson. I know that I can pattern him out, but the blink mech and ear mech still kind of baffle me. I do know that the...

So, I realize that I'm coming to this thread about two years too late, but I'm in the process of putting together my own Barney Fife uniform (recently put together a pretty good facsimile of the "ol' salt and pepper" suit, and thought I'd do the whole deputy outfit for Halloween. I'm having...