![]() So what was Yonderland like? Challenging, exhausting, but most of all, fun. Even within TV puppetry, there are performers who floor me with their skill, so day-to-day I am constantly learning and that's one of the most rewarding aspects of the job. yet there are puppeteers who can take a puppet suspended on strings and move it in a way that will have you roaring with laughter one minute and weeping the next. Puppetry is a broad umbrella term for many disciplines, I wouldn't have the faintest clue what to do if I was asked to use a marionette. However I should state right now, I'm no expert. I normally work, day-to-day, as a voice artist and actor, providing characters for various cartoons and adverts, but I've been privileged to work on a number of amazing TV puppet shows over the last 20 years. A bit of hard work and a lot of luck later I spent time with Jim Henson's Creature Shop and being phenomenally jammy, then trained as a muppet puppeteer. I started to try and make my own characters, learning by my mistakes and reading or watching anything that could help me. I was incredibly lucky to grow up when I did, animatronics was a growing art form and movies like The Dark Crystal blew my mind, the extraordinary creatures on the screen both terrifying and enthralling me. I got into puppetry when I was quite young, inspired by the numerous trailblazing films of my childhood.
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