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What materials do you use for blacklight puppets?
As mentioned in my short post about what materials to use when making a puppet, there’s no hard and fast rules as to what to use when building a puppet. However, blacklight puppets are slightly different. Before continuing you may want to read the intro on blacklight, which discusses certain concepts in more detail, like how it works and what colours to use.
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What is blacklight puppetry?
One of the the best things about puppetry is that you can create images, scenes or performances, which allow the imagination to soar. As discussed in the post on using puppetry for performance [link to be added], puppets can do a range of things that human actors can’t - and blacklight puppetry is just one of those things. Video example at the bottom of this post.
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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).
First of all, I want to thank you for all of this information, it is very helpful. I am a fan of the muppets and Jim Henson's work is very inspirational. I just wanted to clear up something about your post. I am working on a project for school. It is a video and I had the idea of having Oscar the Grouch host it. If I were to make a puppet of him (lol not very accurate because I have no experience in puppet building) but it would hopefully be recognizable, would that be legal? I don't want to cause any trouble, I just want to make sure before I end up making a mistake. I would not be making any money off the video, as it's just a class project for my high school, and I would certainly not be selling it or making any more. Please let me know what you think. Thank you!
... Alec on Why are there no Sesame St/Muppet patterns?