#hand rod puppet

[cyanwyrmy]

(FAN ART! Please do not repost!)

WAHHH! The update has me in shambles over here! I haven’t had time to draw something new, so I’m sharing this again but now you can actually see the puppeteers haha!

I’m so interested in the puppeteering aspect of this story, and I think it’s even more deep when you consider how many people are working these silly guys. For reference, I looked at images of Jim and the gang puppeteering Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street. I love learning how this stuff works!

Anyway, the art itself isn’t a spoiler, but I’ll tag this as such just in case.

Happy Homewarming! 💌

#welcome home #welcome home fanwork #welcome home fan art #welcome home puppet show #welcome home update #welcome home speculation #welcome home spoilers #frank frankly #eddie dear #welcome home belongs to partycoffin! #hand rod puppet #live hand puppet #frank x eddie #eddie x frank #welcome home frank #welcome home eddie

[cool-frog-hours]

This bad boy is doing numbers on tik tok, so I figured I’d post him here too

Audio: [“Welcome…babies…to The Fruity Pebbles Castle of Torment, a scary castle with one hundred rats.” *laugher*]

#frogs art #dnd #curse of strahd #white balancing a white puppet in a dark room is a skill i do not possess #strahd von zarovich #dnd5e #dungeons and dragons #puppetry #puppets #hand rod puppet #tik tok #mcelroys #dnd shenanigans #dnd party #dnd campaign

[dracaspina]

Most of the Muppets are left-handed because most puppeteers are right-handed. They usually gesture with their left hands, but this is most obvious when playing instruments. (If you don't know, on guitar-like instruments you strum with your dominant hand.)

Kermit? Plays banjo left-handed.

The Electric Mayhem? Left-handed guitar and bass.

All the Muppets are lefties!

#muppets #left handedness #left handed #lefties #musician #instruments #rod puppets #I was binging #the muppet show #instead of sleeping

[queenofthursday6599-blog]

I am sad that Back to the Rock decided to just give Mokey rod-hands full time

In the original puppet show, Mokey had two sets of hand that would be used depending on what was needed for a scene.

A set of rod-hands like the rest of the main Fraggle characters, and a set of live-hands (which are like a pair of gloves that a puppeteer wears to act as the character's hands).

Something easily facilitated by her large billowing robe. Though there's various Muppets who do a similar thing even with tight clothing such as Ernie.

Anyways the live-hands is how it was so easy to do scenes of Mokey doing stuff like painting, writing, throwing things, and other stuff in the original series.

If there's an object that either can't be easily attached to a rod-hand, or that needs to be immediately thrown, there's a pretty good chance Mokey is going to be the one to pick it up.

Such as the "hideous round thing" that she picks up and throws to distract Sprocket in episode 1 of the original series. It's too large and smooth to easily (and realistically) have a rod-handed puppet hold, but a live-handed puppet could pick it up and throw it quiet easily.

It could just be because rod-hands have advanced since the original series, and the hands now have greater pose ability than the kind in the 80s, so live-handed puppets have become redundant when not necessary.

Like Mokey doesn't play the piano or anything super intricate that requires extreme finger dexterity that couldn't just be added in post or something.

Though I do think Mokey's live-hands gave her an expressiveness and groundedness in her movements that the rod-handed puppets didn't have in the original series.

Live-hands are more fluid, dynamic and nimble compared to rod-hands just by default.

When she did something, like paint, or touch something, or even touch her friends, with her live-hands it was always more grounded and believable than when any of the characters with rod-hands did something similar.

Like when Mokey pulls out a poem and is holding it, she's literally holding it with real hands, but if Gobo pulls out a postcard from Uncle Matt that same episode it can look kind of funny, because it just doesn't look as realistic. Sometimes they didn't manage to get the fingers on his rod-hand to close all the way, so the letter is just awkwardly stuck to his hand.

Same with the other rod-hand Fraggles whenever they hold a piece of paper.

Human hand in a glove will always be more 'realistic' (believable) feeling in movement and action compared to a fake hand being controlled by a stick.

And I think that is something missing from the new version of Mokey.

Original Mokey was always an artistic dreamer who could sometimes feel like she had her head in the clouds, but also had these moments of being very grounded and insightful, and was very down to earth in general.

Mokey was the most physically affectionate of her friends in the original, and I feel like that was due to, at least in part, her being a live-hand puppet a lot of the time.

Like there are just scenes where she'll just be holding one of her friends hands while she guides them along, or she'll cradle their heads when she hugs them, and there's just an extra layer of depth that comes with it being done by live-hand puppetry.

There were actions that Mokey as a live-handed puppet could do that the rest of the main cast couldn't do due to her status as a live-handed puppet, and the old show took advantage of that, and I feel like that's where at least a bit of her characterization came from.

Because for a lot of those scenes weren't of Mokey doing something complicated that made live-hands neccessary, no, in a lot of them she's just talking with her friends and gesturing with her hands, or being physically affectionate, and what she's doing with her hands aren't even the focus of what's going on in the scene.

In the episode where Wembley is looking for his job, when Mokey is walking him up to the Gorg's garden to get radishes. She's holding hands with him as she leads him up there, but that's barely in frame at all.

To the point that their hands are bobbing in and out of frame as they walk, and it only lasts a few seconds.

The hand holding was completely unnecessary, it barely makes it into the scene at all, but it was still something the puppeteers decided to do, because Mokey holding her friends hand while leading them somewhere was a Mokey kind of thing to do.

And it's the tiny moments like that, that I think is missing from Mokey in Back to the Rock.

#Fraggle Rock #Mokey fraggle #live-handed puppets vs rod-hands #Mokey was changed on a technical puppetry level rather than just a visual level for Back to the Rock #if you guys didn't know that #anyways I think BTTB Mokey feeling different from OG Mokey is more than just her no longer being a flower child kind of character #a lot of what makes a character when it comes to puppets is style of puppetry and they changed the type of puppet Mokey is #so stuff like Mokey's body language especially with her hands and arms between the shows are going to be different #anyways if you thought something was off with Mokey's hands in Back to the Rock it's because they changed hand types for Mokey's character #it's not just her not wearing the robe anymore

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

it sucks when you have something veerrrryy Specific you want to draw but it hinges one one equally Specific thing you have no way of including

#its so funny in my mind but it would never translate without irl images #yknow it probably Wouldnt be funny out of my mind. its probably only amusing to me. but i guess we'll never know #absolutely unprompted #basically it was frank getting high with wally and barnaby. yknow trying it for the first time bc why not #and he takes a hit #and for a moment everything is fine. he says 'is it supposed to do something' and then he looks down at his hands #which are an irl photo of his real puppet hands. gray felt and rods and everything #and then - visibly distressed - he looks over at wally #who is a photo of irl puppet wally #and wally says something like 'dont worry about it' #zoom out to show an irl photo of the three of them on set and frank says idk like 'ohhhhhh no' or 'holy shit' or somethn #is this anything. is it. #its funny To Me and thats what matters in the end #probably....

[world-of-puppets]

Puppetry by Desmond Mac Namara (1965)

#puppetry #puppets #glove puppets #hand and rod puppets #1960s #books #Desmond Mac Namara

[shellsy]

lil shelda interview image redraw while I work on finishing my designs

#bugsnax #shelda woolbag #shellsy woolbag #what tag does she go in</3 #anyways shes my beloved #YES she has puppet hand rods 👍 very important to me #buggyart

[illegalmuppets]

I don't go here but the way the puppets in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared are built and operated gets henson puppets better than anything that tries to parody the muppets/sesame street and it all comes down to the fact that they are all different to each other

#theyre not all rod puppets with a primary colour skin tone and circle noses and whole pinpong eyes #the duck guy is a bird and has the glove hands. the red guy is a whole guy in a costume #its good puppetry and i may be too much of a wimp to watch it but fuck do i respect the puppets

[crunchworldsupreme]

Wah! Look what I just found! Thee very first proto crunch! This wasn't intended as anything even remotely "crunch" related, I wouldn't have the idea for like, another 2 years lmao. But the design is there!

#this is. obviously. a puppet #I submitted it as a self portrait lmao #circle head. Tee shirt. big round eyes #even the 3 hairs!!! (although they went back instead of across) #fun fact. the three hairs are actually a puppet design thing #wispy elements like that add a lot of movement and make them more visually interesting and lively #they translated very well to a 2D character though! the hairs are one of the ways I convey mood and movement with crunchy #these were the thumbs where I was messing around with different colors. I ended up going with the orange and blue one #in the final painting I think the collar of the shirt actually did pop out a little more and I added a shirt tag sticking out lmao #I'm sure I've still got it around somewhere #CrunchWorld #the eyes are googly eyes. yes 😂 I wanted it to be constructed out of real materials. that's why there's visible stitching and the hand rod #another fun puppet fact #to get that slouchy arm you'd use beads so it's fluid but weighted #also the thumb is on the wrong side and I can't remember if I fixed that in the final or not 😂😂

[pinkdinkydoon]

OUG do you have like. A favorite type of puppet???? I can't remember what most of them are called but you probably know what I'm talking abt as far as how different puppets are made and handled and stuff gsjdhdjdhdjs

YES I DO!!!!!!!! TY FOR ASKING.

So Live-Hand (or Sackbodies) puppets are my favorite, and what those are... are basically rhe ones where one big hand goes into the mouth and the other two hands are manned by the mouth-ers other and another person OR a seperate person entirely while the one hand in the head is another. Either way it's a two person job.

Examples would be Rowlf, Fozzie, Cookie Monster, Oscar, Marvin Fraggle, the big wide ones that aren't full body costumes but do require a lot of body put into.

They're SO COOL??????? LIKE... Arm Rodded puppets are great. They're the classics but it's so fascinating that using the human hands helps adds to the life-likeness they have. It helps add character.

Kermit as a Rodded puppet relys on his puppeteer being able to make fluid movements with the rod in his hand, as well as moving the body with also the same amount of fluidity.

Live-Handed, have a bit of a one up. Like with plastic puppets, since their hand is a LITERAL human hand just in felt it helps add to the realism they have.

It's why Fozzie is so animated, he moves around like a neurodivergent kid after seeing to many danganronpa sprites. We love realism put into puppets it's my favorite....

#pinkspacewanderer #rambles #puppet tag #TYSM FOR ASKING #I hope one day to be able to make a live handed puppet #as right now i only have a single rodded puppet finger puppets armed puppets (ones that go on one hand... like a sock puppet kinda) #not enough :((( #ive also been trying to make more felted items for my puppets #and also make a more professional looking one of my puppet sona (i dont have the funds to buy serious anything rn) #so its mostly been trips to hobby lobby to get cheap felt and mess around :D #since most live handed ones are furry and fur is also expensive.... #thats not happening any time soon

[the-acid-pear]

Fought with my dad again 👍 Hopeless ass situation. This is like being in the city except I don't even have a bed or a radiator. He's being such a monumental cunt tho I'm so tired of his refusal to get his shit together. Imma do some jigsaw shit to this man see if that makes a change somehow.

#luly talks #[heavily distorted voice] hello Father. For the last past months you've been getting increasingly selfish and distant; refusing to reach a #helping hand to your supposed loved ones even when they needed the most. today this will change. before you is etc etc #i actually own a puppet though she's a hand puppet w rods. like a muppet! #i love her her name is Roxy #oh btw this all started because i told him both family and friends need to reach out when trying to form an intervention for an addict #in this case his supposed friend. the man he literally called his best friend multiple times. so i literally called him out in that his whol #e ''oh he can die for all i care'' behavior is just bullshit. that's not a friend. #just sent him a testament on the phone ahaaa and im crying bc i brought up my grandma 👍👍👍👍 #if i could simply go back to her home and stay with her and just god and just talk about everything again im gonna throw up #i actually avoided talking about her w him in a mourning manner because i didnt want to use that card FOR MY FUCKING SAKE #but it's the last thing on my deck #the fact that i lost onw of the only two people i had closest to me that i could somehow rely on #I'm so tired of this shit of the fact because of his shit i ned to verbalize this rip the handmade stitches of my wound #my jaw hurts

[cool-frog-hours]

Strahd Von Zarovich has never looked better 😉

Puppet structure was made by me and was skinned + clothed by @thepageofheart and @townhulls

Surprised the whole party for our last session until December by whipping up this bad boy in three days (again, massive thanks to my co conspirators)! They’d bought the Strahd ventriloquist dummy from Blinsky the previous session, so I thought it would be funny if Strahd pranked them with it. The party, of course, roasted the fuck out of him.

He’s made out of 1/2 inch foam for his body, various colors of felt, white fleece for the ‘skin’, googly eyes, yarn i’d had for a hot minute for his hair, white fabric from my stash for his shirt, clearance jewelry (also from Joann’s) for the necklace and earrings, and a shit load of hot glue. His head pattern was one I found for free online that I modified slightly. I made up a pattern for his ears and nose which were attached separately to his face. The inside of his head is padded with more foam and given structure via cardboard supports so that the puppeteer’s hand (mine) doesn’t slide around too much and so it doesn’t lose its shape. His left hand has a simple armature inside it so that the fingers are posable. His head and body foam are separate, but connected by felt so that his head can turn freely.

All in all, for our first ever try at making a puppet, id say we did pretty good 😊

#frogs art #dnd #curse of strahd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #puppet #puppets #puppetry #hand rod puppet #strahd von zarovich #strahd puppet

[amphibifish]

i have a resting sad face and it's funny cause i zone out a decent amount and my friends r always like "r u okay u look sad" and i'm like "yeah" and i was thinking about puppets the whole time

#i REALLY REALLY wanna get into puppet making it looks so fun n i wanna bring my puppet ocs out of paper and on my hand rn #fish.txt #puppet tag #half the time it's about rod specifically but um. we ball.

[krawdad]

I should build a mechanical hand

Give child me a treat

Give current me's brain something to fucking do

#wouldnt really serve any purpose #but that's one of those 'why wouldn't you want to own that if you had the option to' kind of thing #at least as far as I'm concerned #like the cable mechanisms are pretty straightforward #I'm curious if i could pull off an actual opposable thumb that does some kind of natural movement #hell i guess figuring out how to do that would be its own reward #if i figure out a simple and effective way of pulling it off I'm making a shitload of rod puppets with hands that actually work #I'll make like. maybe thousands of dollars #i hope my meat hands hold out long enough to do this #not like im planning on building replacements or anything #i would probably want to go with some kind of claw anyway from a practical perspective #fewer degrees of movement but you can finesse the ones you've still got

[giuliettagaltieri]

Breath of Spring

Pairing: Young!Gojō x Young!Reader

Chapter Synopsis: Emotional constipation was Gojō Satoru's congenital defect.

Warning: angst, unrequited love, suggested misogyny, arranged marriage, age gap

Word Count: 1060

1 of 9

Gojō Satoru has known you even before you knew how to walk.  He attended your naming day, he was already five years old then.  The memory is vague and blurred but he was certain of the strong feeling of dislike he had for you.  How is it that everybody was congratulating him, telling him that he is so lucky to be betrothed to you.  The well anticipated daughter of your family, one long awaited after having birthed with boys alone for nearly a decade.  But that does not have anything to do with him.  All you did was drool and suckle on your tiny fingers.

There was nothing particularly special about you, he comes to realize after you attended his 12th birthday.  It was a day he received many gifts, the wrapped packages piled so neatly in the corner by the handmaidens of the estate house.  He is not to touch any of them, lest some were sent by malevolent individuals who seek to bring harm to him and his family.  Not that he can’t see cursed material from a mile away but the elders of his house insisted.  He cannot complain either, it saved him from wearing fake smiles and throwing away forced gratitude.

It was why he was upset that his annual hunt had to come to a pause just so you could hand him your gift.  He eyed you with his much aggravation.  You are never without your nannies and personal guards, being sheltered from the world like a fragile little flower.  You were nearly half his age but you already act like an adult.  Like you were better than him.  It was as if your back had a rod with how straight it always appears to be, your chin always tilted upwards, and eyeing everyone as beneath you, how haughty.  It brought him great satisfaction to see you shy away from him though, your eyes always finding your dainty shoes whenever he is nearby.

Your handmaiden had to usher you forward so you would have the courage to hand him your gift.  The elders looked at his actions carefully, almost awaiting him to make a mistake just to have something to criticize him over.  He mutters a small “thanks”. And you nod at him and retreat back to the arms of your mother who was watching you with much fondness.

As he previously thought, you’re nothing different.  Just another puppet.

Gojō wasn’t in the mood for hunting afterwards.  Simply kicking rocks by the pond as his servitor accompanied him, standing a few meters behind him, still like a statue.

“The young master appears to be upset.”  The servitor says calmly, his voice even and unprovocative.  But young Gojō Satoru whips at him with so much fervor that the servitor nearly breaks into a smile.

“Upset?  For what reason?”  He scowls as he steps closer to the tall man.  He looks about ready to fight anything that moves, his face contorted to a wild scowl.  “Because of her?  That spoiled shrimp?  You think that pipsqueak is relevant enough to upset me?”

The servitor clears his throat to hide the smile as he closes his eyes.  “Perhaps the young master should be kinder to the young lady.” 

Gojō scoffs and looks at the tiny gift that he had in his clutches, never letting go of it ever since you handed it to him.  “Kinder?  She has done nothing but be a nuisance!”  In a fit of anger, he throws the carefully wrapped item to the ground.  A loud shatter of ceramics startles him, and the servitor flinches upon hearing the sound.  They both stare at the still wrapped gift, its shape no longer preserved and it looks nothing more than a heap of oddly shaped objects covered with the intricate fabric.

“Oh my.”  His servitor sighs, disappointed.  “What a shame, the lady was very excited to know how you liked her gift.”

Upon hearing this, Gojō raises his defenses, his teeth gritting as his cheeks flushed.  “You don’t have to do her biddings!”  Yet despite the outburst, the little boy’s eyes cannot leave the heap of your broken gift on the ground.  They have many talented craftsmen in the estate, it can be fixed, he is certain of it.  But then again, why does he need it fixed?  You’re insignificant, your gift is no different.

Or so he tries to convince himself.

His mood has not been better for the next few days.  He was cranky, snapping at anyone who looked his way for too long.  His father, ever so perceptive, asked young Satoru’s servitor about his dramatic, or at least worse than usual, turn of emotions. 

A day later, Satoru finds another wrapped gift atop his nightstand the moment he opens his eyes.  It was familiar, the shape of it.  When he reached for it, the weight of it was something his hand had known.  A small tag was attached and he read it, his still pouting lips moving as he read the words one by one.

To Gojō-sama.  Wishing you a fine day.

He knew the curve of your handwriting too well.  The frown in his brows deepened and deepened as he pulled the ribbon.  And the wrapping came undone and the ceramics figure of him and you, hands intertwined, stared back at him.

It was beautiful, smooth, and greatly detailed.  Even the clothes were made of the finest material.

But it was useless.  It was good to look at but there was no purpose to it. 

A knock in the door startles him, and he nearly drops the figure but he manages to grab hold of your foot, well the sculpture, he did not expect the dress to flip, showing him your bloomers.

Gojō twists the doll right-side up and pulls your dress down until it covers your ankles.  His face is bright red and warm.  It was simply too much for young Satoru.

“Young master, is everything alright?”  The door slid open a fraction but Gojō yelled for them to close it at once!

“Yes!  Everything is alright.”  His face was still aflamed as he clutched the dress tightly around your tiny body.

By the next day, you receive a bouquet of blue roses littered with baby’s breath accompanied by a poorly scribbled note of ‘Thanks’ from the young master of the Gojō estate.

Where the Blue Roses Grow

#gojo satoru x y/n #satoru gojō x reader #gojo fluff #gojō satoru #jujutsu kaisen #gojō x reader arranged marriage #arranged marriage

[world-of-puppets]

Some fun 1990s/2000s puppetry book covers found on archive.org

I want to be a Puppeteer (1995) Ivan Bulloch

Puppet Power (1998) by Nancy M. Laughlin

Puppets (2004) by Meryl Doney

How Do They Work? Puppets (2005) by Nancy Sadler

#1990s #2000s #books #puppets #puppetry #book covers #90s nostalgia #2000s nostalgia #00s nostalgia #sock puppets #hand puppets #rod puppets #marionettes