Puppeteering

REEL

“… precise and nuanced. That short scene demonstrates just about the most perfect manipulation  I’ve ever seen.“

Alan Semok, Film & Television FX Master

“He’s got something that audiences welcome. Charm & talent.”

ARTHUR NOVELL, PR Exec. – Markham/Novell & Dir. of The Jim Henson Foundation

“Funny, easy to work with and well versed. He did a great, great job.”

CHUCK FAWCETT, President – Animax Designs

“I’ve never laughed so hard or so much from a single word. So funny and skilled.”

JAY RINSKY, Founder – Little Cinema Digital (for Cartoon Network)

“Detailed, nuanced, beautiful manipulation.”

ALLAN COOK, Designer/Puppeteer/Animator

Gumby & Pokey, Sid & Marty Krofft

“A great puppeteer with huge, stonking talent and very funny.”

MIKE QUINN, Puppeteer – Star Wars/Disney/Muppets

“… a puppeteer that is smart and hilarious. That’s rare. I loved your workshop.”

TOM McLAUGHLIN, Groundbreaking FX Designer

LucasFilms/Jim Henson Creature Shop

 

INTERVIEW

GUEST SPEAKER & WORKSHOPS AT

The National Puppetry Festival         Puppetpalooza       Eugene O’Neil Conference       NYU        UCLA

CLIENTS

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ALBUM

For those who love the artistry, please enjoy this album of photos from co-workers, public domain & my own personal archives from numerous productions.

THE CONTEXT AND USAGE OF THESE PERSONAL & ARCHIVE IMAGES HAVE BEEN GRACIOUSLY APPROVED IN WRITING BY THE JIM HENSON COMPANY, PIXAR, GBP INC., VIACOM, SESAME WORKSHOP, THE BATCAVE OF OZ, THE SMITHSONIAN, DISNEY MUPPET HOLDING COMPANY, DISNEY THEATRICAL, TRIGGER STREET PRODS., WARNER MEDIA, PARAMOUNT+ and INDIVIDUAL PROVIDERS.

Teaching at The O'Neil in the Rufus & Margo Rose Barn
Mech Genuis, Jim Kroupa
Performing Animax's Virtual Puppet
Snook from Big Big World
Stacey Gordon, Lisa Henson, Ken Martinson
Muppet's Bill Barretta
Muppeteers, Kevin Carlson, Bruce Lanoil, Tyler Bunch
Je-Ghetto
Puppet Life Magazine
Puppet Fest - teaching
muppet auditions
zig-grandpa1-web
creature workshop
wences tribute and induction
robert townsend
Times Square shoot: GNA
TELLY monster and Marty
the stoop and the can!
FX for Dana Brunetti's Trigger Street Prods
On break for Trigger Street Prods with Kevin Spacey

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“The first time I met Jim Henson, I was in my teens. I leaped off the Disney Tour Tram when they announced the Hensons were renting the production offices on the lot. I sneaked through security and asked for Jim. I was told I had just missed him and when I turned around, he walked in, finished his conversation, turned to me and that’s when I told him I was going to work for him. He said he’d look forward to that day.”   – Michael Paul