Come discover how puppetry can enhance your tabletop RPGs through immersive storytelling, engaging NPCs, and hilarious interactions with you and your gaming group, & even help you game with kids!
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Puppetry can make most things better: grocery shopping, funerals...but have you ever considered adding puppets to your tabletop gaming?? If you were a fan of Smile Time and want to live out your “wee little puppet man” tabletop fantasy, or you're tired of being limited to 3-inch miniatures, come discover how adding puppets to your gaming group can be a super fun, hilarious, and entertaining way to enhance your game play! Whether you're NPCs to life, or just taunting your DM, puppetry is definitely going to get people in your group to make room in their calendars so everyone can FINALLY continue that quest!
The quality of a character should go far beyond a their looks & voice. Learn how to give your characters depth, how to make them emote, and how to connect in a way that deepens your performances!
Having puppets dance involves far more than the "kermit flail" --come find out what it takes to organize the puppeteers to make the puppets look amazing!
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Choreography is very important in puppetry, especially when it comes to musical numbers and group scenes. But how do you make your puppets dance without flailing them around? Learn the tricks and tips for choreography on or off screen with Sesame Street performers who know how to get it done!
Everyone's obsessed with those little sticks on puppet hands & wants to know if there's a trick to use them. We're here to reveal those tricks and send you on your way with some brand new skills!
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Excuse me, madam! Control your puppet's hands!....is what you won't hear after this workshop! Bring a puppet with arm rods if you've got one, and if you don't, you can wait in line to see what you can borrow from us. Sesame Street performer and avid arm-rod utilist, Brandon Smith, is going to be teaching you some wonderful, new skills!
Join Jennifer Barnhart for an engaging, practical, hands-on puppetry workshop. You'll learn the essential skills that make puppets feel believable and alive. Oh, and it's going to be a hoot, to boot!
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Start your Gen Con puppetry journey off right by learning the most important parts of puppetry first! There’s no better way than through tabletop puppetry--one of the most accessible and least intimidating forms of puppetry there is. And trust us when we say that our puppetry program guest, Jennifer Barnhart, is one of the kindest teachers we know! Whether you want to perform in living rooms or libraries, on stage or television, the elements of connecting with your audience never change--and Jennifer can’t wait to help you on your way to mastering them!
Puppet builder, Gordon Smuder, shows you how to make adorable, posable puppet hands for arm-rod style puppets. Participants will leave with two working puppet hands, one arm rod, and two thumbs up!
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Gordon Smuder of The Puppet Forge teaches his method for making pose-able arm-rod-style puppet hands similar to those seen on some of your favorite television puppet characters. Participants will construct a set of two hands that are posable and can accept an arm rod (provided) for performance. These hands can be stitched to the arms of a participant’s own puppet creation or kept as examples for future reference. Participants must be capable of responsibly using sharp tools and hot glue.
Would you like to get a start making puppets or other crafty things, but don't quite have a grasp on sewing by hand? Good news! This sewing for beginners workshop is perfect for you!
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You'll learn 4-6 of different hand-stitches, & of course you'll get to practice them. We'll get through as many stitches as we can in our 2 hours. You'll even learn a couple of tricks for threading needles & tying knots. The instructor, Stacey Gordon, has been sewing by hand since she was much shorter than she currently stands, & she stopped growing a long, long, long time ago.
If you're hoping to bring puppetry into your videos, career, gaming, library, or classroom, this seminar is for you! Get inspired by our panelists & learn how to incorporate puppetry into your life.
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How do you start in puppetry? How do you get your first show? Do you have to do puppet shows to be a puppeteer? How can you convince people that puppets aren't just for kids? What kinds of puppets are acceptable to use? What age group is too old for puppets? You've got so many questions, and we've got the answers!