Tips From a Sesame Street Puppeteer! 

Puppet Pie: puppetpie.com/ Animal Eye practice puppets: puppetpie.com/products/peepers Meet Julia from Sesame Street: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dKCdV20zLMs.html Adam Savage Attempts Puppeteering with The Henson Company! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sf-i8kn9sJE.html Michael Schupbach (puppet wrangler on this day!): instagram.com/mrschupbach James Wojtal: instagram.com/puppetdungeon/ Gordon Smuder/Puppet Forge: www.thepuppetforge.com/ Blank Puppets: blankpuppets.bigcartel.com/

The most puppeteer knowledge in 37min ever. Please bring her back sooner than later please. Her love of teaching her craft shines through

Not even a puppet guy but seeing people so excited for their interests is so contagious and cheerful. Love this kind of content!

This woman is a wizard. She made a bottle of water come to life.

I grew up playing with puppets and I’ve always loved them. I had one named sir Lancelot (he was a knight, if you could guess 😂) and I took him EVERYWHERE with me. I’d even sleep with him at night. I once took him to show and tell at school, and everyone thought he was so cool and I felt so proud. I’m so glad to find other puppet nerds at long last! 💕

" with this ring I thee puppet"... best line ever

The magic of this channel is that I don't think I want to watch tips from a Sesame Street puppeteer, but 40 minutes later I've watched the entire thing and enjoyed the hell out of it. Stacey is fantastically enthusiastic and it's amazing to see an expert in such a niche field that still does an artistic job that's anything but easy. Loved this.

Watching Stacy instruct Adam was such a delight, her enthrusiasm and postivity were lovely.

Please don’t stop the puppet content! I LOVE learning how this stuff works ❤

I am so Happy to see this, Stacy is a great family friend and was also my baby sitter when i was young, yes she was an amazing sitter. To see her not only fulfilling her dreams as a puppeteer on sesame street and then of all things to show up on my you tube feed this morning blew me away. I am so proud of her and happy that she was able to meet Adam and share this passion of hers. the was Adam has full fledged interest always amazes me. they say never meet your idols but Adam is a safe bet.

I looked up infectious enthusiasm in the dictionary and this is what I found. Nothing is more interesting than hearing someone talk about something they're passionate about and this is a prime example! 😊

As a Henson trained puppeteer, I could not love this more! 💗 #GoldenRectangle

I am so excited that others love the puppet content as much as I do!!

After an extremely bad night involving multiple breakdowns, this was very much appreciated. Thanks adam and Stacey! You have a lovely method of teaching

I'm only getting started in blending my puppetry and filmmaking. But these few techniques and lessons have already given me so much to consider moving into my next project. Thank you for collaborating, sharing her knowledge, and most importantly, your iteration. It assures me I'm not alone in my feeling of ineptitude against such pros!

'Ello! I'm a puppeteer and puppet maker in the UK and seeing you and Stacey working together brought me so much joy, thank you so much!!! 🙂

just the enthusiasm in the room between these two. it is addictive and healing.

I _LOVED_ this episode! I grew up watching Sesame Street and always enjoyed it so much. It's so fantastic seeing Adam genuinely excited about something to begin with, but when he brings someone else on that is genuinely excited about something as well, ::chefs kiss:: Thank you, Stacey for joining Adam on this episode and sharing your craft with us!

At this rate, Adam Savage is gonna become a pro TV puppeteer in no time! Also GO STACEY WE LOVE YOU WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hey Adam, loved this episode! I'm a former classically trained 2D animation professor, and whenever I taught lip-synch I always began having the students try their hand (pardon the pun) at puppetry, since many of the tips and subtleties mentioned in this video also apply to dialogue animation!

Now we have a master class on puppeteering that we can watch over and over for future reference; wonderful!

PLEASE keep doing this kind of stuff. It makes me smile so much!

She's cool. Absolute passion for what she does. Awesome. Exactly the same reason I like Adam and this channel so much.

Thank you adam and stacy for doing this video. As a long time fan of both, i was super happy to see stacy come on for a video colab. Most recently my 7 year old daughter also became a fan of adam and the myth busters team after letting her watch one my dvds, it was the one Mega Movie myths. After that she has been a very big fan and enjoys watching tested with me. Sometimes its hard to hold her attention to all the videos, this She enjoys this from start to finish.

Videos like this are truly what I’m here for at Tested. People genuinely excited to learn and people genuinely excited to teach. Love this channel ❤

As a puppeteer and puppet maker this brought me so much joy, thank you so much team!

I honestly had the funnest time watching this video. I felt like I was watching Sesame Street again, also 2 comedic shows between you and your lovely friend Julia as well as the 2 puppets. Truly happy to watch this and so so much respect to the people that made and still make my childhood possible whether it be Star Wars or Alf or Sesame Street, eureka castle mister Roger’s you name it. So much joy and emotion and storytelling. Can’t thank you enough for making and sharing this video. Had me laughing in bed and smiling nonstop. Thank you Adam and Julia. I used to have peepers when I was younger also, and as a kid with not a lot of friends it was an outlet to talk to someone. Truly wonderful. Please do more.

Yay! Great to see more puppets and to see an amazing puppeteer on the show.

Oh my god this is so exciting, i love these videos! And clearly Adam does too!

Thank you Adam and Stacey for this delightful puppetry lesson. I was smiling the whole time, trying out the the movements with my hand. I'm thinking about getting or building a puppet now. I fell encouraged to do so. Stacey is wonderful. Please bring her back, soon. ❤

Wow, Stacey is amazon! Her entusiasm and friendlyness really comes avrops the internet. I love the passion for puppetry and I love to ser all the skills that goes into it! Thank you!

Wow Adam. This is an awesome video. Thank you so much. She is such a good teacher and we can all learn from her. So much fun. Excellent!!

Oh, this was totally delightful! More! We need more, sir! Please.❤❤

Wow such contagious joy and energy!

Super fun video to watch with so much enthusiasm and great interaction between you two. Hreetings from Sweden

This was SO PERFECT -- my Monkey Boys puppet kit arrived today; assembly of my very first puppet begins tomorrow. I was wondering how to begin learning puppetry, and blam! Here's this video to point me in the right direction. Many thanks to Stacey and Adam for doing this video! So many subtleties to begin practicing once my puppet is made. 😀

So cool! Thanks for sharing this adam!

I am just starting to learn puppetry for my new project. so much to try, thank you for the help

When she showed her favourite puppet it just reminded me of Button Moon from when I was a small child. Perfect. I actually cried happy tears.

This is exactly the sort of thing that inspired me to really dig into what makes puppetry work and all the skill and craftsmanship that goes into it, more than just appreciating it on a surface level. I remember making my first puppet in middle school just to bring to Maker Faire to show to Adam, and his pure enthusiasm for my basic little fluffy hand puppet has been in the back of my head all these years. And I say thank you because I’m a proffesional puppet maker and puppeteer now! I would not be where I am without Adam and Tested’s videos, his excitement for the medium and willingness to learn new things. I’m a lead puppeteer on a little show pilot called Fogtown, and it’s been so exciting to watch the team learn this new style of performance together. So I really encourage anyone watching videos like this to just get out there and start practicing!

Oh my goodness, Stacey is the best. I love how generous puppeteers are with their craft too. I could watch this for hours.

I loved every second of this, the excitement, fun and passion is so contagious, (and learned a lot!) didn't even noticed the video was 37 mins long :)

I spent weeks making a puppet that blinks because of the first few puppet videos on Tested. Love this stuff so much! Thanks Adam and Tested!

Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for puppetry, Adam ☺️ This was a joy to watch

Awesome episode. She's amazing!

I absolutely love her enthusiasm and love for the art that she is clearly so talented at.

This is AWESOME! Thanks so much!! Very helpful tips!

I love this The man I became was because of Sesame Street, electric company, 321 contact, and of course Mr. Rodgers.

In an onld children tv show in Norway from 1982-1984 kalled Labbetuss. There were two characters called Smitt and Smule. They where a pair of gloves with a wig and eyes. Labbetuss it self was a man in a dog costume (Geir Børresen), it was an old english sheepdog.

Wow, gives you so much respect for what puppeteer’s can do!! Eye focus seems so difficult to master! Awesome video

26:23 it's so wonderful seeing how much of the character a puppet has just out of necessity. Like looking at a Muppet has this imbedded quirkiness that is unlike a drawn animation, and the "cheating to camera" thing is such a solid example of it.

Wow this was so fascinating!! I knew it was hard but dang!! Good job Adam! 🧡🖤🧡

At 27:30, I had to pause the video because I was seeing a Niven Puppeteer. 😂😂😂😂

This was awesome! Very informative too!

I found myself copying and practicing as you did this. I never knew I'd be interested in puppeteering, but it somehow revealed a part of me I didn't consciously know was there. A also was delighted that I seemed to have a knack for it. I'm sure I'd have to learn a lot to really do it well, but I felt very comfortable and capable as I tried out some of the things you were doing for myself. I then thought to myself, well this isn't actually too surprising, as I'm a dancer and pianist. I'm fairly nimble with my hands and I have a experience thinking about poise, presence, and intricacies of movement. Actually, I realized then how much more deep it goes. The main kind of dance that I do seriously is the Japanese artform known as butoh. Not only are careful hand movements a common part of butoh, but I also remembered the time I saw Ōno Yoshito do a performance celebrating the life and work of his father Ōno Kazuo, one of the founders of Butoh. At the end of this performance Ōno Yoshito used a puppet of his father, and danced through the puppet. I think this might have been a performance his father had originally done, but I don't remember for sure. In the background was playing "Can't Help Falling in Love" by the Elvis Presley. "like a river flows, surely to the sea, darling so it goes, some things, are meant to be." I was speechless. I was literally speechless, unable to speak for an hour after I saw the performance, unable to wretch myself from the haunting power of what I had seen. I could only nod to coordinate with my friend about where we should go eat as we left. Now when I hear that song, it takes me right back to that dark theater, to those things I saw and felt that I still cannot fully understand, that dark dimension that courses through each of our minds and binds us each to the void. Ōno Yoshito has since passed away. I am very luck to have seen his performance then. There is something very butoh about puppetry, that is hard to explain unless you know the intricacies of how we do butoh. On the surface, this weird avant-garde artform full of dark imagery and disturbing movements would seem to have little to do with that artform full of color and laughter and childlike play, but when I started doing butoh, I realized that it was a childlike play, permission to be the me I truly wanted to be. When I see the techniques used for puppetry, I realize that it is based on the careful observation of movement and the subtleties it can express, just like butoh. People with a surface understanding see butoh as a kind of modern or contemporary dance, but there is a big difference between butoh and any kind of other dance I've ever seen, especially modern. Those dances are "show show show," make your message loud and clear and obvious, show your emotions, show your skills, show show show. As Hal Tanaka taught me, butoh is not 見せる "to show," it is 見られる "to be seen." In butoh we become, we transform, and I think I see the exact same thing underlying puppetry. So fascinating.

I started making puppets a good while back. It's awesome to see you do more puppet stuff.

It's such a simple thing that you'd want to move the lower jaw more than the upper jaw like a human for talking, but I feel it's such an inherent thing that the upper fingers do move and animals open the lower and upper jaw some. It's like your combining both as you anthropomorphize the puppet.

Some of us have found a way to eek out a living without really having to grow up...we are puppeteers. 😊❤ I am so grateful that Adam has been shining a light on our craft, and showing how it's all fun...but, still a lot of hard work.

Her passion and enthusiasm is so infectious I started considering a career change within the first 10 minutes of the video. It’s addicting being around people so full of happiness about what they do.

Loved this video, so much knowledge in puppetry, more than I could have ever fathomed. I’m going to make myself a pair of eyes on a ring to entertain my daughter and apply what I learned here.

Wonderful. More please, thank you for sharing 🥰

She is as much of a delight as Julia is and a wonderful teacher too!

Glad Hobey Ford got a shout out. He's a wonderful NC puppeteer that I have seen perform live.

I have found my people. I got so excited!!!

She is such an amazing teacher!

I love always learning something new on this channel that i never realized existed before ❤️

That was not long enough. Thank you for sharing this with us!

Obsessed with these muppets videos!!! ❤

Ugh I love Stacy she is adorable and so talented.

One of the best videos i have seen ever in RU-vid!

what a joy to watch thanks tested.

Thank you for sharing!

When she got excited when you saif you love and didnt know the specific terms used for puppets and way she got so excited cUse ypu loved learning them was amazing and i just knew this was a great episode in the making i was foxing to experience. You are right she has this beautiful glow about her thats jist so awesome

Awesome video, Stacey is amazing! I also love that in the background of the puppet shots are the containers of warthog and grizzly poo from Mythbusters. 😂

Awesome video. Thanks for share.

WOW i love these puppets!!!!

As a Randy Feltface fan, I'm also a growing Heath McIvor fand and want to see more of how he's moving underneath and out of sight. I loved the work he did in Sammy J's Forest of Dreams, but also as his character Randy has developed. As Adam meets more puppeteers, I'd love to see him talk to Heath.

This video opende a new world for me, thanks from Netherlands

This episode gave me the feels right in Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Loved it!!

Stacey is an absolute delight.

She is wonderful!

Thank you Adam!

I absolutely love this woman. Life coach material

This was very lovely 😊

This is awsome! Great teacher.

This episode made my day

Stacey is awesome! 😃 Love this ☺️

I learned stuff! She’s brilliant.

The most wholesome video.

Monitor tip: if you're used to working in a mirror and are transitioning to monitor, an easy way to train yourself to "fix" your "backwardness" on monitor is to simply follow the puppet on the screen. Meaning: look at the monitor. See which way your puppet is leaning? Then move your arm to follow the image. You'll automatically straighten up. Puppet on monitor leaning right? Move your arm to the right. Automatic correction. The image is telling you which way to move your arm to correct it.

Stacey comes to Gen Con every year to lead puppet workshops and they are so fun. Happy to see her on the channel!

Puppet obsessed for sure! Wonderful

I love this!

What a wonderful half hour learning about something I didn't know I wanted to learn about. 👀

Awesome guest

Now I want to know what is in the jar labeled Warthog :-).

This was oretty fun. Reminded me of the hand puppets I had as a kid.

I love these puppet videos 💕 Adam you should totally build a shoulder dragon puppet! It's the year of the dragon after all 🐉✨

She is such a sweet blessing what a wonderful person ❤

7:36 With this ring, I thee puppet. Funny and so beautiful because it is a relationship.❤