About Weight in Small Puppets

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Summary: Learn techniques for adding weight to the presence of small puppets to make your puppet come alive with expert puppeteering tips in this free online performance video clip.

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About Weight in Small Puppets

In this clip, we're going to look at weight in small puppets. We just looked at the center of weight in your own body. Replicating that in puppets, they're small. It's something different because there's not really gravity. They can go like this. They can go like this. They don't have the same trouble as we do with our weight to the floor. Work on slow to create heavy. With lightness, allow with to have a sense of gliding. Weight, heavy and light, in your small puppets is really an important thing to think about because it's very difficult.

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