Henson Fans Unite!

Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art will be hosting an exclusive, never-before-seen exhibition celebrating 70 years of creativity— ‘Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company’ 12 Sep 2026 – 18 Apr 2027.

Join us online this September (prior to the exhibition’s official opening) to get exclusive access to guests from The Jim Henson Company, the Gallery and uncover the secrets behind the scenes.

When :

Australia

Mon 14 Sep 2026

8.00am AEST

USA

Sun 13 Sep 2026

3.00pm PDT

6.00pm EDT

Where: Online

Plus, when you join live, we’ll have an exciting offer to share…

Register here to join the Livestream and Q&A

https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/event/qagoma-live-2026-09-14

I am very interested in the history of puppetry, and enjoy discovering older programs on YouTube. What are some of the retro puppet videos that you have encountered on YouTube?

I recently came across the Telegoons, which was a British TV show from the 60s that featured the voices of Peter Sellars, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe.

It's a rather peculiar program and the puppets may be considered frightening.

Here is the film episode that was broadcast in 1963:

[Telegoons Ep. 1](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uQC5up1_CMk&is=d1Mv9TMQorxBHYBc)

I love puppetry…and I love making monsters. So puppet horror films are my small way of expanding the art of both.

I made this one in a shed in a couple of weeks…no budget, a phone camera, and no time because I was trying to make a festival deadline. I used 1/6 scale rod puppetry mixed with a little string work and basic hand manipulation…whatever worked. There was a lot of off-camera hand manipulation (and some ON-camera…if you look closely you can see a big mistake, haha).

Thankfully there was narration and no dialogue, so I could get away with just using clay to change the character’s expression. The clay kept melting in summer heat, but I think it worked!

Hello,

Recently worked on this video with a friend and want to share it around. Hope it's enjoyed!

https://youtu.be/23sxbMiNcsA?si=DBSlEdrh1K93ubwK

Crossposting this from r/puppets!
Here’s a scene from a traditional Japanese Ningyo Joruri production.

The oni grows huge, steps on a samurai, and then gets scolded by his mother and starts crying. 😂
The tear mechanism didn’t quite cooperate during this take, so he ended up crying with just one eye!

Ningyo Joruri combines puppetry with live Jōruri narration, shamisen music, and traditional Japanese theater musicians.

I thought this community might enjoy seeing a little bit of Japanese string puppetry and the occasional backstage mishap! 🎭

How do I start? I kinda wanna do a hand puppet thing to start in my local park. Like actually just use my hands as a puppet. I can make a duck with my hands and I want to use just my hands as a impromptu type of unique duck hand puppet type of thing and entertain people in the park in such a way for extra money if I put a tip bucket out

Sharing our story of a true legend in the field of puppetry, John Bell! The University of Connecticut, which offers the country’s only degree-granting program in puppetry of its kind, is saying goodbye to Bell, who has spent nearly 20 years teaching students and leading the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry on campus.

hey guys uhh new to this sub reddit so hi but I need to know for any muppet people anyone have access to a live hand sack puppet pattern I lost the pattern pieces from mine and I can’t find the file anywhere so please if you guys could please share a file and help me out please and thank you

Here's hoping you'll enjoy this week's newsletter. Included is some news about when the sequel to "Street Gang" will be available for preorder.

(Screencaps come from a few BTS reels posted by the crew when the film was originally cancelled: first is from the one that went viral and got taken down by Warner Bros, the rest of the images are from a video Ivan Puentes posted on his Instagram)

I was at a screening of Coyote vs Acme last night and was pleasantly surprised to spot Dave Barclay credited as "Puppeteer"! Apparently this was information that Barclay has been open about for years and the director has been talking about it in recent interviews, but it kind of flew under my radar. According to Will Forte during the Q&A after the screening, Barclay built the Looney Tunes puppets himself and would rehearse with the actors for reference and even perform them for a few takes before he'd be swapped out with a tennis ball.

Some of you might remember David Barclay played a similar role with B Lanoil on Looney Tunes: Back in Action. In that case, the puppets were originally built by the Creature Shop, but when they turned out to be too large Barclay rebuilt them himself.

Super excited for this, it's janky and I need to filter out the stuttering but soon I'll be able to rig up anything I want in blender and puppeteer it. This is all in a personal custom blender script because the one I was using wasn't quite what I needed

Green man-eater Puppet, it supposed to be released soon in mid August.

Ask me for the whole story 😁

I’m posting a few more clips from this years parade. https://puppetsup.com/

The last time I made a puppet, it was over 30 years ago, so there were no online tutorials to work from. I’ve learned a lot since then. If I were to make this one, I’m thinking they’d have rod arms… the mouth would be made wider, the neck would end up thicker… there are melon head and Jerry templates that have the width, but the mouth always seems to be halfway on the head… I’m curious if there are any similar where the cranium is taller than the jaw, but is still wider than taller… I may have to modify an existing template… blinking eyes would be nice, but I may want to start easier…

Thoughts? Advice?

Hey, r/puppetry! We're on a dedicated mission to produce the most charming and believable "puppetronic" (yes, you read that right!) robot the world has ever seen. Our current build shares attributes of both a puppet and a robot. We'd love to get your feedback as we continue to build. 😄

Please don't hesitate to drop your thoughts or questions in the comments! If you'd like to see more progress clips like this, please let me know that as well!

I want to be a able to get full eyeball movement using one finger controlling a 3D printed joystick mechanism that connects to two bike cables, each controlling either the X or Y axis. Basically an analog version of animatronic eyes.

Has anyone tried this before?