Hello, I'm Skand a French hobbyist and professional to-be puppeteer.
Puppetry is a passion that imposed upon me like a growing plant, without me noticing it. I left that aside for the last 10 years when I was in the IT domain, creating web sites. Now as a home father of two, and soon three children, the urge to dream and make dreams returned and honestly I'm very glad of this!
I discovered this site through gompie who introduced herself in Andrew's online training session and here I'm to know what I can learn, and share what I can.

I created a site some weeks ago to share my projects and what I found on the net : www.worldofpuppet.com where I post in english and french. Don't be fooled by the name, it's not supposed to be any encyclopaedia on the subject but my own personal world around puppetry. You're most welcome to comment, my blog feeds on it and weight does not frighten him!

hello and welcome to puppets and stuff

Hey    to P&S

Hey    to P&S

Hello Miguel,
did you manage to assemble the ears and head pieces on Andrew's tutorial?

Hello Miguel,
did you manage to assemble the ears and head pieces on Andrew's tutorial?

I'm still figuring it out (I used to glue the ears, eyes, and nose). I'm not pretty sure how to sew them (That's what I want to learn). Every time I try to stitch, don't stay well. But I'm trying

Miguel!

Stephane,

Welcome to Puppets and Stuff.  So glad that Gompie sent you our way. 

It sounds like you are learning quite a bit from Andrew's course from the comments you and Miguel have stated.  Andrew is a good teacher and I know you will come away from his tutorial with a wealth of knowledge.  It looks like from the photo you posted on your blog that you are coming along very well with your puppet!  I like hearing the alternate materials you use since in France you don't have available what we have here.

Make yourself at home and enjoy!

Welcome to Puppets and Stuff! I love the international flavor here, and hope that you will post often, and show us what you're doing.

Welcome to Puppets and Stuff !

Billy D.

Every time I try to stitch, don't stay well. But I'm trying

How is your machine sew level ? Personally, I added 5mm to the pieces of the pattern and sew them on the reverse. First, the hears, then I used a baseball stitch to sew the dart with the ears inside. What remains is machine sew.

Thank you for the welcome!

It sounds like you are learning quite a bit from Andrew's course from the comments you and Miguel have stated.  Andrew is a good teacher and I know you will come away from his tutorial with a wealth of knowledge.

Yes it is already the case, but due to Andrew's third party video encoding problems we (at least, I) feel quite frustrated, having to wait for the next lesson.

It looks like from the photo you posted on your blog that you are coming along very well with your puppet!

Thank you! I enjoyed the result very much! It is my first muppet but not my first puppet. I used to create marionnettes and rod puppets before. I will post my portfolio as soon as I can.

  I like hearing the alternate materials you use since in France you don't have available what we have here.

Well, France is not that exotic that we have special fabric or techniques. I made rod puppet with any materials I found. I often use plastered strips* (quite the same used in hospital when you broke your leg for exemple) sometimes on a plastic ball, sometimes on a wire (the kind you found to protect your tomatoes in your garden, or to make a henhouse), sometimes on polystyrene. I use electricity or plumbery tubes and so on. Well I DO use anything to achieve what I want. That's not typically french I guess, it's much more a way to create.
Can you be more specific in what you want to know ?

Make yourself at home and enjoy!

You're welcome!



*english name ?