Puppets, Pawpets, Rod-puppets, Handpuppen made by Tioh

fox and chicken hand-puppets

Site content:

My blog-posts about puppets

How to build a puppet
by hand:

Fox-puppet (english)
Rat-puppet (english)

Rat-puppet (german)
Serval-puppet (german)
Snow Leopard-puppet (Sina Stillwater) (english)
Hare-puppet (Alice Hollyberry) (english)

Video-tutorial - basics (german)

Video-tutorial - Schnittmuster für das Fell am Kopf (pattern making with painters tape) (german)

Video-tutorial (part 1) - foam body (english)
Video-tutorial (part 2) - foam body (english)
Video-tutorial (part 3) - paws (english)
Video-tutorial (part 4) - making a pattern to cut the fur (english)
Video-tutorial (part 5) - attaching the fur (english)
Video-tutorial - making teeth with Plaast and a hot air gun (english)
Video-tutorial - how to assemble 3d-printed movable eyelids (english)

Video movable rabbit nose-test
Video eyelid-test lion puppet
Video eyelid-test wolf puppet
Video eyelid-test rat puppet
Video eyelid-test fox puppet
Video eyelid-test snow leopard puppet

Video screen-test for Aurelia the arctic vixen
Video Marcus Fox

How to build a puppet
with a 3d-printer:

Creating a 3d-model (english)

Video: 3d-printed puppet head base for little Ortha (english)

Video: 3d-printed puppet head base - how the animatronic parts work explained (english)

Video: 3d-printed puppet head base - animatronics test (Bowden cable controlled eyelids, eyebrows, and ears) (english)

Video: My panel from EurofurenceOnline 2020: Puppet Crafting with Tioh (english)

Video: How to make the pegs to attach the lower jaw to the head base (english)

Video: How I prepare my fursuit head 3d-models for 3d-printing (english)

Video: How to cut 3d models for 3d-printing with NetFabb Basic (if your printers build volume is too small) (english)

My workflow for modelling puppet-heads and some frequently asked questions about 3d-printing:
My 3d-printing panel at Eurofurence 2015 (english)
My 3d-printing panel at Eurofurence 2015 (german)

3D-printed puppet parts

How Ortha was built

Video: 3d-printed heads
Video: 3d-printed heads

Video: skunk-puppet
Video: animatronic puppet-hand
Video: animatronic eyelid
Video: animatronic tail
Video: bird head (screen test)
Video: bird head (animatronics test)
Video: bird puppet (screen test)
Video: animatronic eyelid

Video: 3d-printed puppet head base with movable eyes and eyelids

Video: 3d-printed puppet head base - teeth added

Video: Cooper puppet (lion)

Video: Flexible 3d-printed ears for half-scale Ortha

My 3d-models:
Thingiverse
PrusaPrinters
Shapeways

Pictures of my puppets:

Flickr
Photobucket
Weasyl


© Tioh, 2021