Newbie... Posted by Scarecrow on Aug 10, 2009
So, I just joined obviously :D 
I just found this site searching for puppetry information and considering what I was actually finding, I figured a live forum was more useful than 99% of what I found (albeit, I wasn't searching long :D)
Anyway, a little about myself. My name is Christopher. Ever since I was very little I've been a huge fan of puppets. Fraggle Rock was a favorite of mine (though Jim Henson's Storyteller was the greatest thing Jim Henson ever did and sits as the highlight of my video collection... though the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth are up there too). When I was about 9/10 years old I made my first puppet show. I adapted Jurassic Park into a puppet show using a puppet stage my mom had built for me. I drew the back drops and all the characters and dinosaurs and glued them to popsicle sticks. For how old I was, while it was pretty goofy, I must admit I was pretty impressed with the way it came out as far as the art and all. The script was probably crap as I hadn't seen the movie yet... anyway, it was like 25 cents for the show or something like that. I still have all the stick characters in a basket somewhere and the stage up until a few years ago. The stage I used many times with actual puppets. I had all the Lamb Chop puppets and then about 10-15 other puppets I had bought over the years when I was little. I would film music videos with the puppets singing or whatever on my little Tyco Video Cam :P
Oh and I did some puppetry in Church for pre schoolers.
I've found I STILL love puppets and I've become slightly better than average at the ventriloquism deal (talking without moving the lips anyway... finding good voices is a little more difficult). I have thought about investing in a real ventriloquist dummy because I've always wanted one when I was young but... I'm not very good at scripting such things and usually people expect those to be funny and I'm really not that witty.
ANYWAY... like I said my love of puppets I found has reemerged over the last few years so I was kind of looking for information and such and try some of this for fun again... building puppets and all that. Most puppets out there are not stylized or have enough character in them for my taste and I would love to just make my own. And just out of curiosity sake... do schools actually have puppetry programs anymore or something like that? I know puppetry is a disappearing art form but just curious...
I just found this site searching for puppetry information and considering what I was actually finding, I figured a live forum was more useful than 99% of what I found (albeit, I wasn't searching long :D)Anyway, a little about myself. My name is Christopher. Ever since I was very little I've been a huge fan of puppets. Fraggle Rock was a favorite of mine (though Jim Henson's Storyteller was the greatest thing Jim Henson ever did and sits as the highlight of my video collection... though the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth are up there too). When I was about 9/10 years old I made my first puppet show. I adapted Jurassic Park into a puppet show using a puppet stage my mom had built for me. I drew the back drops and all the characters and dinosaurs and glued them to popsicle sticks. For how old I was, while it was pretty goofy, I must admit I was pretty impressed with the way it came out as far as the art and all. The script was probably crap as I hadn't seen the movie yet... anyway, it was like 25 cents for the show or something like that. I still have all the stick characters in a basket somewhere and the stage up until a few years ago. The stage I used many times with actual puppets. I had all the Lamb Chop puppets and then about 10-15 other puppets I had bought over the years when I was little. I would film music videos with the puppets singing or whatever on my little Tyco Video Cam :P
Oh and I did some puppetry in Church for pre schoolers.
I've found I STILL love puppets and I've become slightly better than average at the ventriloquism deal (talking without moving the lips anyway... finding good voices is a little more difficult). I have thought about investing in a real ventriloquist dummy because I've always wanted one when I was young but... I'm not very good at scripting such things and usually people expect those to be funny and I'm really not that witty.
ANYWAY... like I said my love of puppets I found has reemerged over the last few years so I was kind of looking for information and such and try some of this for fun again... building puppets and all that. Most puppets out there are not stylized or have enough character in them for my taste and I would love to just make my own. And just out of curiosity sake... do schools actually have puppetry programs anymore or something like that? I know puppetry is a disappearing art form but just curious...
Re: Newbie... Posted by miguel on Aug 10, 2009
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