Puppeteer Barnaby Dixon designs highly detailed finger puppets like this one and the one above: a rather adorable raptor puppet. Watch as his fingers control the feet while other hinges, levers, and mechanisms help make the puppet’s movements more real.
Dixon posted this video to explain more about how the raptor works:
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