Something New
We are reintroducing something that we did away with several years ago. I believe that we were the first Soft Puppet makers to introduce moving eyes, but even though they did in fact work, JET was never happy with the way they functioned. So after much thought we discontinued them several years ago.
It has always bothered us that we did not have moving Left/Right eyes. The simple fact is that the eyes are the window to the soul. This is true with people and with puppets.
JET had continued to work on the mechanisms of moving eyes over the last couple of years and we are now bringing them back in a very functional way that work even better than they did before.
If you will notice “Marijo” from the “Something New” section, she comes with moving eyes. See the video below of the moving eyes in use.
We hope that this feature will be something that you will find useful in your next puppet.
We will talk again next week.
Steve and JET
are they hard to work, like stiff levers etc.
can people with short fingers work them?
Hi Nora,
They are not at all hard to work. There are no “levers” involved. The only thing is a small wire like control that your finger will move easily side to side. At this time we can not do both Left to Right moving eyes and moving eyebrows.
If you were to order Left to Right movers, make sure to let us know that you have short fingers so we can make the control wire just for you.
Thanks,
Steve