I haven't been keeping up with my diablo. How are you doing?

Sounds good. My style of playing is to take my time and destroy everything in a room that can be destroyed, but when I figure it out I'll throw over my whatsitcalled. Just not now as it just threw me offline. Kind of pissed off that they can't leave my single player alone.

But anyways, answer me honestly. Cut-scene between act1 and 2, did you tear up?

For patterns you should go to Project Puppet. It's kind of expensive for most of the patterns, but if you're starting off small I would suggest the Glorified Sock Puppet pattern they have. It's based on Kermit the frog so it has the least amount of foam.

The Puppeteers Unite blog has a video series using a Project Puppet pattern. It helps to see the whole process so you know if it's something you really wanna get into doing. He uses the Roly style puppet. Which is a simple puppet with a foam head.

Also Indymogul did a BFX episode about making a Muppet-style puppet.

Great title! I'll read it tonight when I'm done with work. Looks good though! :-)