According to the puppeteers, Sesame Street has three types of puppets with different mechanics: hand-and-rod, live hand, and full-body. Hand-and-rod puppets, like Elmo and Abby Cadabby ...

The Lion King features co-puppet design by Julie Taymor and Michael ... The performer inside wears a full-body wicking suit, a carbon-fiber head mount, knee and elbow pads, biking gloves, and ...

“It freaks some people out.” Hand puppets, head puppets, head-and-body puppets, full-body puppets (like Bowie and Prince), rod puppets, table puppets, “cranky” puppets (a scroll used to ...

It helps sell that they are full-body characters ... “Donkey is known as a mouth and rod puppet, or hand and rod puppet,” says Schwabe. A mouth puppet is one that works with the hand ...

There’s the full-body puppet, like Big Bird and Snuffleupagus; “bag” puppets with two articulated hands, like Cookie Monster; and hand-and-rod puppets that have arms controlled by thin rods.