#henson's place

[gifs-of-puppets]

Henson's Place: The Man Behind the Muppets (1984)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

VINCENT PRICE guest stars on THE MUPPET SHOW (1977)

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1329

In 2020, Sesame Place sold eight exclusive Squishmallows. The twelve inch plushies were of Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, Telly Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Super Grover, and Mr. Snuffleupagus.

Source:

Muppet Wiki. "Sesame Street Squishmallows." https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Sesame_Street_Squishmallows.

[putting-eddie-munson-in-places]

This page makes me so happy. Can you please put him in Labyrinth? I think he’d like checking out all of the creatures in there

i think he would too, if he could ever find his way outta these damn MC Escher stairs

[world-of-puppets]

I have conflicted feelings about the FNAF series in general, but seeing a movie where practical animatronic puppets are the primary focus of the film becoming not only financially successful but also well received by general audiences is pretty damn neat.

[hensonshell]

crazy harry its such a shame that in a post 9/11 world your explosion-based humour was not appreciated. you brought back memories of a horrendous event crazy harry but it wasnt your fault, your explosive obsession was meant to assuage our terror, mollify our mortification. i will remember you crazy harry, though this sick world may not.

[sushicatz]

Painting with friends can help you see things in a brand new way!

Been thinking abt and trying to draw this for monthssss. I like to think Wally Darling and Mokey Fraggle would get along well, what with them both being artists and totally sweeties.

[thequeerbodyofchrist]

Why am I so emotional about those three rascals together again 🥹

[ariesxcove]

georgia trip was so much fun 💞

[whenweallvote]

Don’t be like Tim. 🤣

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[wewerebornsextuplets]

why the fuck is that embed so big on pc. anyways this is pb&j

[celestialgloaming]

Okay so like tbh the fnaf movie looking like it'll actually be really good is honestly a good thing because if it's a genuinely good horror movie it'll make news for being too scary/mature for kids and then finally parents will pay attention to Scrimbly or whatever being probably not appropriate for their 5 year olds.

[avaloniaofficial]

little bit of a self report but like muppet vision cant go </3

its also funny bc i could never stand rock n roller coaster as a kid and even now because it felt like sensory asscrack so id always go to muppet vision alone instead while everyone else went on it and now here we are

[spookyweaselbones]

Waldo 1.0 basically came together in a single shot. Design, laser cut, assemble, flap mouth. It only allowed me to move my thumb and wrist, and it wasn’t very good at letting me isolate motion, but functioned basically immediately.

Getting the Waldo to this stage, on the other hand, where I can articulate more than just the thumb, and minimize unwanted secondary motion (aka move my fingers without the whole head jerking around) required a complete rebuild of the gimbal frame just to start. I then had to learn 3D printing and surface modeling in CAD, and do maybe 40 prints producing about a hundred parts. I had to radically re-evaluate the entire approach to the hand control design, including the basic premise that a Waldo hand control should be shaped like the interior of a puppet head.

The Henson approach is undoubtedly superior but much much more difficult to pull off. It basically involves placing all the rotary sensors at the exact axis of rotation for all the digits of the hand. Pulling this off has benefits in terms of one-to-one control, but I discovered that it requires incredibly precise placement or else tons of secondary motion is created.

Frustrated, I thought about trackball mice and game controllers and musical instruments. All of these things let you isolate motion by enabling the hand to move the way it wants to. The sensor doesn’t have to care where your joints are and how they move, you just have to be able to reach them.

I re-designed the hand controls to be shaped more like an ergonomic mouse instead of like a puppet mouth, and although it has created a new learning curve for controlling the character, it’s immediately obvious that this approach is worth pursuing and may very well be the winning form.

Edit: the character model is a wip by an artist named Cramble who is a genius

[synthsays]

<30

Back in November of 2021, I started writing all about Fraggle Rock. This book is filled with art, a couple of my favorite Fraggle Rock quotes, and a lot of writing. I have finally finished it tonight, after almost two years. I dedicated this book to Jim Henson, his performers and all who have worked on his numerous projects. They made my childhood truly remarkable.

Fraggle Rock will always be my favorite Jim Henson production. Like Madame Trash Heap said, “You can’t leave the magic.”

[beardedmrbean]

Happy Birthday Jim Henson, the world is a brighter place because it had you in it.