Building Puppets and Sets

        

We build many different types of puppets, and we use many different techniques.
Follow these links to learn about

        
Casting and Molding Large Heads
Casting Smaller Puppet Heads
Video and Foam Puppets
Giant Walk-Around Puppets
Puppet Video Sets
        
 
Snap the Dragon, Drosselmouser and Hannibal the Elephant are all from Snapdragon live performances and are all flexible, molded puppets.
  
Click here to learn how we build molded large puppets
  
 
Click here to see how smaller heads are cast
  
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox from The Tall Tales of Paul Bunyan
Toontoon from the Portuguese televison show Batatoon.

Here are some examples of puppets made for video productions and live performances.

Click here to see how we make foam puppets of this type

        
 
Max and friend. Max was made for the television show Batatoon.
Click here to see how we build big walk-around puppets like these
Sunny and Drizzle from our video What's What Kid Dog?
The Moon Maiden was made for the Fremont Solstice Festival.
             

Wonder how miniature sets are made for videos?
Click here to find out.

    
       
The mouse village from our Emmy-winning video of The Mousecracker.
        
 
The giant Dragon walk-round puppet was made for the Fremont Trolloween Festival.