“Animating with puppet rigs in Flash is - shall we say - a sort of hybrid between traditional animation and animating with a 3D model in a program like Maya. You have a puppet broken into dozens of different parts - and you animate each part separately from one another. For example: You’ll animate the head for the entire shot - then the torso connected to the head - then the limbs - then the facial expressions - so on and so forth. Approaching the animation in steps is the way a skilled puppet animator will get a shot done.

If you’d like to learn more about the different ways to animate puppets - then we can send our "Smiley Face Demo” that we have all of our animators work through - to you.“

- Zach Rich (Director/Producer)