Karrat: My first puppet

Say hello to my very first puppet, Karrat! Let me tell you a little bit about Karrat and his origins. I made Karrat because I was Jim Henson for my school's biography project, and really wanted to go all out. And also i was just very interested in puppets and wanted my own. Karrat is a very fun character, with a very high voice quite similair to Elmo. In the picture he has no hair, but i did give him a fluffy red doo. His name is Karrat because he is color blind and believes that his body is orange, and his hair is green.

Below is a picture of Karrat in progress. I just traced out a pattern of the shape i wanted him to be, head, body, and arms all together, cut them out on two pieces of fleece, and sewed them together. It was very badly traced, he is very assymetrical, one side of head rounder than the other, one arm longer than the other, the fingers just totally messed up. So in all, he was a very faulty design. Although, for a first attempt I'm very proud of him.

New Blog!

Hi! Pretty much my whole life I have been a huge Muppet fan, whether it be Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and so on. In the last few months, I have become fascinated with puppets, how they are made, and how they are performed. Sort of for a school project and sort of for fun, I built my first puppet, who i will post about next. Ever since that I have been hooked and cannot get enough knowledge of puppetry and puppet building. I hope you all enjoy my blog and all the cool stuff I will post in it.