Begin your puppet-building journey with BJ Guyer, starting with design and then building the understructure, mouth plates, arm rods, and foam hands. Click to learn more. | Stan Winston School of Character Arts

Go behind the scenes of Joe Dante’s #SmallSoldiers and see how Stan Winston Studio used real puppets and on-set performance to bring to life the militarized Action Figures. Stan Winston Studio designed and built two categories of characters for the film — Commando Elite soldiers, and alien Gorgonites, all of which were realized as articulated puppets. In total, Small Soldiers would feature fourteen distinct characters: six Commandos, seven Gorgonites, and a ‘Gwendy’ fashion doll. Although Gwendy

Turtle rod puppet by Stan Winston Studio for a Comcast commercial. #turtle #rodpuppet #stanwinstonstudio #comcast #commercial | Stan Winston School of Character Arts