Mackinnon and Saunders visit

I visited Mackinnon and Saunders with Anna, Amy, and a few others. We got to see and hold a lot of puppets that were in shows and movies I watched as a kid, which was super nostalgic. It was really interesting to learn about the technology behind all the puppets. There's so much involved in it, from little magnets to hold the eyes in place, to large rigs to keep everything standing up on spindly little legs.

Though I love character design and stop motion, I feel like puppets aren’t really something I’m very interested in making, though I don’t want to brush it off entirely. I think I like the creativity and freedom of prop making more, and I feel like puppets are a highly technical feat that I’m not quite capable of. 

I'd love to put some photos here but I was asked not to share any images online. These are some of the puppets I met in the flesh, though!