puppets in prague

Join our ONLINE series of 2-hour workshops! Topics: Toy Theatre Construction, Puppet Costume Design, Moving Eyes, Acrobat Marionette and Machinery in the Workshop. Sign up for all 5 and get a discount. more

Learn the specific technology of a four-legged friend. You send us your design, we cut puppet parts for you and send them - then you carve it! Class size is limited to 12 students and includes live online lectures and regular individual consultations. more

You send us your design, we cut puppet parts for you and send them - then you carve it! You learn all aspects of making a traditional, wooden Czech marionette. Class size is limited to 12 students and includes live online lectures and regular individual consultations. more

Learn to make a breakaway skeleton marionette. more

Our classic workshop in which students learn all aspects of making a traditional, wooden Czech marionette. The process includes designing puppets, making technical drawings, woodcarving, painting and puppet costume design. Plus basic aspects of manipulating different styles of marionettes. With the newly-made puppets students will make short puppet shows. more

Students experience the whole process of making the puppet: design, technical drawings, woodcarving, painting, stringing, costume, controller. Students also learn how to manipulate the marionettes and how to create an short show with an ensemble under a professional puppet director.more

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Professional puppet film artists teach students the methods of building a traditional Czech film animation puppet with a metal armature. Students meet specialists in all areas: designing puppet, joints, head making, polyuretan hands, welding armature, costume, wigs, eys, building stage, lights, fixing puppet, animation, editing... we also visit a professional film studio and go to the International Anifilm Festival in Liberec. Students will make test animation and everyone will leave with one wire puppet, which they can use for stop motion animation. more