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How to Build a Hand Armature for Hand and Rod Puppets
Learn how to make a wire hand armature for your puppets with world-renowned puppeteer and puppet builder BJ Guyer (The Muppets, Crank Yankers, Team America: World Police).
Puppet Making at Montezuma-Cortez High School
Students from Cortez, Colorado created fantastic hand & rod puppets using BJ Guyer's Stan Winston School’s courses.
THE TERMINATOR was my Film School - with FX Wiz Shane Mahan - SWSCA Cyborg Celebration
The Terminator FX veteran Shane Mahan on starting his career with Stan Winston & James Cameron on the world's most iconic killer cyborg film.
Animatronic Head Foam Latex Skin Test
Learn how to finish, test, and program an animatronic head with master creature effects mechanic Craig Caton-Largent (Jurassic Park, Terminator)
How to Make Hand Puppets: Building an Eyebrow Mechanism
Learn how to build an easy-to-operate eyebrow mechanism for your hand puppet with master character fabricator and puppeteer BJ Guyer (MUPPET'S WIZARD OF OZ, GLEE, CRANK YANKERS)!
Terminator 2 Disaster: James Cameron bashes "Arnold" T-800 Puppet to Bits
Terminator 2 Set Disasters Behind-the-Scenes: James Cameron bashes the hero T-800 "Arnold" puppet and Stan Winston Studio crew fix it overnight.
How to Add Hair to Foam Puppets
Learn to add hair to foam hand puppets with master puppet builder BJ Guyer (The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Glee, Crank Yankers).
How to Make a Tail Mechanism: ZATHURA's Zorgons
Learn how to make cable mechanism tentacles with Creature FX mechanic Richard Landon (Pacific Rim, Jurassic Park, Aliens)
How to Perform on Camera with a Hand Puppet
Learn on-camera hand puppet performance techniques with master puppeteer Bill Diamond (SESAME STREET, THE DARK CRYSTAL, MONSTER TV NETWORK).
Puppet Facial Hair - How to Pattern & Cut a Mustache
Learn how to pattern and cut out fur facial hair for hand puppets. with master puppet artist BJ Guyer (Muppet's Wizard of Oz, Glee, Crank Yankers).
Using Tentacle Mechanisms for Francis Lawrence's Constantine (2005)
Learn how Stan Winston Studio used tentacle mechanisms to bring demons to life in Francis Lawrence's Constantine with special character effects designer Richard Landon.
How to Drape a Sock Over Your Chicken Form
Learn how to create a custom body sock to drape over your chicken form with master fabricator and hair specialist Deborah Galvez (LIFE OF PI, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, DR. DOLITTLE 2).
Making 'Madison' Ghost Puppets for What Lies Beneath (2000) at Stan Winston Studio
Go behind the scenes of Robert Zemeckis' What Lies Beneath, and learn how innovative early-2000s tech and puppetry brought the film’s haunting underwater ghost to life.
How to Build an Animatronic Head: Fusing the Mechanical Underskull
Learn how to build an animatronic head with master creature effects mechanic Craig Caton-Largent (Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, Predator 2)
How to Build Mechanisms for Hand Puppets: Eyebrow Mech Installation
Learn to build mechanisms for hand puppets with master puppet builder BJ Guyer (MUPPETS’ WIZARD OF OZ, GLEE, CRANK YANKERS).
How to Make a Stop Motion Animation: The First Increment in Your Puppet Animation
Learn how to animate your stop motion puppet for the camera with legendary stop motion animation and creature effects wizard, Stephen Chiodo of the Chiodo Bros (TEAM AMERICA, KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE, ELF).
