Puppet Building 101: Nine Week Online Puppet Building Workshop

I’m really happy to announce today that I’m going to be offering a nine week, interactive online puppet building course, Puppet Building 101.

This is an intensive nine week course I’ll be offering via PuppetBuilding.com that is designed to take you step-by-step through the process of how you to build exactly the kinds of puppets you want to make. The course has a couple of components, including:

• Weekly video tutorials and handouts that take you step-by-step through the puppet building process.
  
• A personalized program that will be geared to the specific needs and interests of the participants.
• A weekly live video session with an interactive format for asking questions that will feature extra tutorials and demonstrations.
• A private “class discussion” message board where you can share, discuss, critique and trade notes with other participants.

Don’t let the “101″ fool you. The goal of the course isn’t just to teach you how to build a puppet and follow a bunch of instructions step-by-step, it’s designed to teach you how to think about building puppets and how you can design, pattern and build your own original characters from scratch. Over the course of nine weeks, everyone who participates will build three different puppets including a custom character they’ve designed from scratch.

The cost of the course is $89.95 US. That’s less than the cost of two really good puppet building patterns or DVDs and this has the added bonus of being interactive and with one-on-one help and feedback. I think that’s a great bargain, especially considering that really good offline workshops can often cost a couple hundred dollars.

Enrollment for the course is now available and it would be great to have some PuppetVision readers involved! The deadline to sign-up is June 6th, but because this is the first time I’m offering it I’m going to be limiting enrollment so the cut off may come before then if the course fills up quickly.

If you have any questions please read the Puppet Building 101 FAQ or drop me a line at puppetvision {at} gmail dot com (be sure to include “Puppet Building 101″ in the header so your message gets flagged and I can get back to you ASAP).