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

Ladies and Gentlemen, the QUACKASTIC Aflac Duck is back! 🦆 In case you missed the full story: The Stan Winston Studio crew was given a very short time to build a duck puppet that would appear as the belligerent, flustered star of an ad campaign for a little-known company, Aflac Insurance. “Initially,” recalled Paul Mejias, who served as effects supervisor on the project, “I got called in to build a duck for this little spot that was just going to be a one-off thing. I worked with Jason B Matthe