Birthing Yoda
June 4, 2022 6:28 AM   Subscribe

A profile of Wendy Froud, puppeteer extraordinaire. Her short list includes The Muppet Show, Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. posted by a non mouse, a cow herd (11 comments total) 26 users marked this as a favorite
 
What a wonderful profile. As evidence by that last link, you can tell I'm a huge fan. I highly recommend the books she produced during the 1990's. Just a treasure trove of imaginative design.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 8:09 AM on June 4, 2022


Excellent article. Thanks a lot.
posted by SoberHighland at 8:31 AM on June 4, 2022


She certainly seems like a hoopy froud.
posted by Splunge at 10:47 AM on June 4, 2022 [6 favorites]




Also related: what the original Yoda puppet looks like now

I don't like you
posted by saturday_morning at 2:01 PM on June 4, 2022 [5 favorites]


I've been reading a lot of Stephen King lately. That belongs in a King book.
posted by Splunge at 2:24 PM on June 4, 2022


what the original Yoda puppet looks like now

About this, a bad feeling I have
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:09 PM on June 4, 2022 [1 favorite]


Also related: what the original Yoda puppet looks like now

It's actually kind of impressive how well the foam-rubber has lasted for... yikes, 40+ years.
posted by tclark at 6:40 PM on June 4, 2022 [1 favorite]


Said seagulls gonna come, poke him in the coconut — and they did. And they did.
posted by Countess Elena at 6:53 PM on June 4, 2022 [7 favorites]


Huh. I always figured the Froud family got involved by Jim tapping Brian for Dark Crystal designs and the rest coming along but it turns out it's because Wendy got a couple of gigs and was all "well if you like what I'm doing my parents are artists too". Neat.

Also this reminds me I keep wanting to do some stuff aimed at galleries so I can open up weird fortuitous chances like "part of the Muppet crew found Wendy's stuff in a gallery and showed it to Jim".
posted by egypturnash at 7:20 PM on June 4, 2022 [5 favorites]


The Yoda puppet does not spark joy

These articles do, though!
posted by The Adventure Begins at 6:20 PM on June 5, 2022


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