You have found the puppet pages! Welcome! Its fun here. Or it will be when there's more added! Please feel free to add and edit pages on this site. If you want credit, just create an account and sign in before making changes. You can find out about puppets, and how to make them. There are many kinds of puppet and they are usually sculpted or modelled, from the simple to the complex.

A puppet may be operated directly by a puppeteer, or indirectly - by the use of strings or by other mechanical contrivance - even remotely by electronics. Puppets can even be worn in costume. Puppets may also be animated with stop motion animation. Possibly all of these techniques were employed in Frank Oz's Little Shop Of Horrors (1986).

Mechanics of Movement

You can control a puppet in many ways, and combine the methods to good effect. for example, it was common on the muppet show to use one hand to control the mouth and head movements directly, while the other hand of the puppeteer could move the rods to control the arms. Eyes may be opened and closed by pulling strings in the inside of the head.

Hand	Rods
Strings	Remote Control