Gosh, this seems like forever ago already. You know how when your parents show your baby home movies, you cringe and want to go into the bathroom and vomit your guts out? Still, this was the first time I really felt like I knew what I was doing on the puppeteering, at least by the end of it.

This project was sort of my big baby for the first half of 1997. While it was a fair bit of work, I'm still amazed that it was possible to get this much material out this fast. If you add up all the episodes, you have a half hour TV show (65 episodes X 25 seconds = 27 minutes), mostly done by one person, in about 6 months. I'm kind of proud of that. And I like to think puppeteering-wise it's decent stuff. These skits are in VRML format, so hopefully you have a VRML compatible browser. Let me warn you though, there's some chance they'll crash your browser (they almost invariably crash mine, but I'm on an SGI.)

My favorite episodes were:

• #28 Fast Food
  
• #25 Out of Hand
  
• #31 Cats
  
• #43 Mealworm Dispenser
  
• #51 Underweight
  
• #22 Escape Plan
  
• #29 Piano
  
• #38 Duck Blastoff
  
• #26 The Performance
  
• #39 What Happened
  
• #36 Death Ray
  
• #65 Up and Away
  
• #64 Banner Day
  

We did the episodes in 3 groups:

• Season 1: 1-20
  Writing by Eric Goldberg and Steve Rein.
• Season 2: 21-40
  Writing by Steve Rein with some setup concepts from me. I worked really hard on the performance and puppeteering here.
• Season 3 (interactive): 41-65
  Writing by Steve Rein with some setup concepts from me; Terry Franguiadakis was VrmlScript expert. I'm not as happy with the character movement in a lot of these; we had to mess with the data a lot to achieve interactivity. However, some of it was a real kick to puppeteer, especially the last 10 (55-65.)

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