Puppetry and practical effects have been used to create some of the most iconic characters in the history of sci-fi cinema.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For one: Deet, a Gelfling. The heart and soul of the series, so sweet, so cute. One of the series’ writers revealed recently that ...

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Did you have a favourite puppet as a child? It's not a puppet, but I remember seeing Lost in Space, you know, "Danger, danger, Will Robinson." [I liked] that character, the robot. That's the ...

In a workshop tucked away near a theatre on Brisbane's southside, a team of creatives is bringing creatures to life through their love of puppets. The Dead Puppet Society is widely considered one of ...

Fate helped bring back the Fraggles. On the day the Jim Henson Co.’s offices closed during the coronavirus crisis, puppeteer John Tartaglia took the Fraggle character puppets with him. “Something ...

Luigi Pirandello's iconic play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is being reimagined at La MaMa this month. Thomas Walker as Pirandello in ‘SIX CHARACTERS (a family album)’ (2015) (photo by ...

Jim Henson modernized the age-old art of puppetry by using foam rubber to coat the puppets’ limbs. Previously, most TV puppets were made of carved wood. But Henson believed that foam rubber and cloth ...

Tired of the slow pace of animation production? A new tool is on hand — literally — to help speed things up. Mr. Puppet Animation System is the brainchild of Thinko, a young New York studio with a ...