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Book review: The Foam Book
Limited time only: I have
10one copy of this book available to purchase. More info here.If you’ve ever wanted to make a puppet that looks as good as Kermit, but is your own design, then you will want to buy The Foam Book.
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Book Review: Puppets and Puppet Theatre
This book touches on the basics of a variety of puppet types, building techniques, materials and tools, manipulation, staging, lighting, sound and performance. Because it covers a range of puppet types, it’s perfect starting ground for learning about puppetry.
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Book review: Let There Be Blacklight
The book offers a small explanation of what blacklight puppetry is, the benefits of using it, plus some info on lighting, choosing puppets, materials and tools, and includes a pattern and instructions on making a blacklight puppet sun (pictured on the front of the book).
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Book Review: Make Money With Puppets
Every forum post that was ever asked by a new puppeteer about making money in the craft is often told in reply: you can’t. Puppet makers regularly report that they do not cover their costs, are reliant on other forms of income (many are in web design actually), and implement several puppetry-related money makers in order to earn anything from their work. So it’s refreshing to see that actually, these comments are not entirely correct. Paul Louis, of Youtube/Ehow/etc. puppet-building fame, has just released an ebook on making money with puppets. Not only is it something that every puppeteer would want to read, but it’s also from someone everyone would want to hear from given his success in the business.
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You Can Make Puppet Costumes: A Free Ebook
There is a free ebook on the web entitled You can make puppet costumes. I have used this book for everything from muppet-type puppet costumes, to designing and making clothes for rod puppets. But you can use it to make clothes for every type of puppet, including marionettes, sock puppets, glove puppets… the whole magila.
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Book Review: Vietnamese Water Puppetry
One thing I love doing is learning about all the different types of puppetry, whether it be traditional or modern. Several years ago, I came across the Vietnamese water puppets, and was instantly fascinated. Never before had I seen puppetry done on water, and ever since, I’ve wanted to learn more about the style. So when I found a book on eBay about it, I immediately had to have it.
please, please! i want to make big mouth puppets to do ministrywork in Madagascar! can u help me with it?
... Francien Broodryk on Free muppet-type puppet patterns: A list