Begin your puppet-building journey with BJ Guyer, starting with design and then building the understructure, mouth plates, arm rods, and foam hands. Click to learn more. | Stan Winston School of Character Arts

How To Build A Hand & Rod Puppet Part 1 - Understructure In PART ONE of his 3-Part “How to Build a Hand & Rod Puppet” course series, BJ Guyer teaches you how to create the “foundation” for your puppets. From design & planning to mouth plates & arm rods, Guyer shows you everything you need to know to get your hand puppet projects off to a great start. | Stan Winston School of Character Arts

Long live Rod Puppetry! 🦖 In this Behind the Scenes footage, you can see a 1/5 scale forced perspective T-rex rod puppet test that Stan Winston Studio members did, mainly to see if they could prove a concept that would work in a live situation. It was early in the making of Jurassic Park III. #puppet #rodpuppet #stanwinstonstudio #trex #teamwork #practicaleffect #jurassicjune | Stan Winston School of Character Arts