Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by Rootrage2 on Apr 22, 2008
I'm going to start with the head
Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by MRHIP on Apr 22, 2008
That's great.  You can get the foam and contact adhesive pretty easily at a craft store.

Have fun and get back with us when you've made some progress.

MR
Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by MRHIP on Apr 22, 2008
You should be able to get 2 foam puppet heads from a 1" by 22" by 22" piece of upholstery foam.  I picked one up the other day for less than $5.  If you can get some Scott reticulated foam it will cost you more, but it's not really necessary.

Try the pattern from puppetbuilding.com.  The one in Puppet Planet by John Kennedy is simpler, but then you need access to the book.

MR
Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by Na on Apr 22, 2008
Seems to be a theme today. Didn't want to comment on this thread since everyone else was handling it so well; and then I headed over to Yahoo! Answers where I give some advice on puppets. Every few days it seems someone wants to buy an Avenue Q puppet. So in honour of all of the questions, I've added a new post to my site with a little bit of info:

http://puppetsinmelbourne.com.au/index.php/faq/2008/04/23/where_can_i_buy_puppets_from_avenue_q

Hopefully people will find it via google, and learn a little about the subject.
Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by MRHIP on Apr 22, 2008
Re: The comments on your page above.  I highly agree!  Setting a goal of knocking off the work of another puppeteer, company or show is like doing your own version of the Mona Lisa, Michangelos David, The Magic Flute or any other well known/classic work of art.  The masters and art students of today do copy work to study the copied work and learn how various aspects of art are employed, but the goal of any artist shouldn't be to merely do copy work.  Copying is only a means to an end...original work.

Marty 
Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by Na on Apr 22, 2008
Totally - I think people get so excited over what they see in shows or on TV, that they forget that they can make something just as brilliant all on their own.

I started a similar way. I have been for the past several years, learning a bit about each type of puppet and copying (in the sense that I haven't been doing replicas, by more being inspired by other people's designs) things that I've seen. Now I know a bit more about how to build and design, I can come up with ideas that are more my own.
Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by MRHIP on Apr 22, 2008
Also, using a technique is kind of like using a tool you didn't make yourself.  No sense in reinventing the wheel, but you should strive to incorporate the wheel you borrow into your own concept.  Here we're using patterns, foam and other construction techniques, for example, that is unique to make a puppet.  Who really needs another Kermit duplicate except somebody working on an official Henson production?

Marty
Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by Na on Apr 22, 2008
So true!
Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by Rootrage2 on Apr 22, 2008
ok well I'm sorta copying I guess but I'm not because I'm doing. Mix not just a kate or lucy puppet I'm doing a mix so I guess it is original because I've never seen anyone combine it
Re: Avenue q help!!! Posted by Rootrage2 on Apr 23, 2008
also if you have never seen avenue q on google videos they have the whole thing but the quality is kinds bad but its still the whole thing it is 1:40 whatever mins one
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