My name is Markus but most of my friends call me Tioh. I build puppets and animatronic costumes in my spare time - only for fun, I do not sell them. I attended a very interesting lecture by Dave Barclay in 2008 that gave me the inspiration for build my first hand puppet - a scaled down version of one of my animatronic costumes:

All the joints in the body are flexible and the head can be played thru the back of the neck. The eyes can move in all directions, the eyelids and eyebrows are moveable, the ears can fold backwards and the tongue can extend. There are no electronic components inside the puppet - everything is controlled by pulling on strings.

Last year I made two rat puppets:

Oh my goodness!  Those are amazing creations!  ;-)
I can't believe you haven't begun to sell them...unless you don't have time to keep up with the sales you would have! 
Welcome to Puppets and Stuff!
Sara

Welcome to Puppets and Stuff............. I'm very impressed with your style of puppet building. Can't wait to hear more and Thank You for the pictures.

Ah, hallo Nachbar! Nice having you here! Great stuff you build, I am especially taken by your avatar. By the way- what town are you from- if I may ask? Ich bin ein Fischkopp...

Hello Tioh, its great to see some of your brilliant creations, they are simply fantastic and im quite jelous!!! show us more, i especially love the rat with the red nose sat on the table!!

Wow!  Incredible work!  I would love to see a video of your fox in action.  He is a fox right?

Welcome and I also say incredible!  I also would love to see video!!

@Rikka: I live in Meckenheim near Bonn. The avatar picture shows one of my fursuits (I am inside the costume) holding a Folkmanis hand puppet.

@Shawn Sorrell: I can only say: don't call her "Foxy" ;-)

I did a quick translation of my german tutorial, that explains how I made my first rat-puppet:
http://tioh.dyndns.org/mediawiki/index.php/En:Puppets

The first test of the movable eyelids:
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https://youtu.be/NS349VmceI4

Louis:


I don't have any videos of my puppets at the moment - I'm a builder, not a puppeteer.

Okay, so the "wild west" of Germany...
Your stuff is great. The fox does look a bit foxy, though...

Fantastic stuff, thanks for the little tutorial on the rat puppet, id love to see the puppets in action at some point!!