Jay Tyson has created a step-by-step tutorials demonstrating how he built a caricature puppet of David Tennant.

Jay Tyson built a great-looking puppet of David Tennant (the actor who pays The 10th Doctor in the long-running sci-fi series Dr. Who) for his puppet web series 99 Acre Wood. Jay is an incredibly talented puppet builder and what is especially cool about this is that he’s put together a detailed series of step-by-step video tutorials demonstrating how he built the David Tennant puppet and made them available online.

Each installment covers a different aspect of the process of building a hand and rod foam puppet. You can download each one for just $5 each, or order them as a complete set on DVD for $65.85 US (including shipping). Jay also offers other video tutorials on subjects like flocking and building eye mechanisms for puppets (the full list of video tutorials can be found here). He was kind enough to send me a bunch of them to review and I learned a couple of new puppet building tricks. At $5 each I really think these are an incredible bargain for anyone interested in learning about building puppets.

Cross-posted from PuppetBuilding.com.

14/5/09 Update: I originally linked to the wrong video. It’s better now.