We made the trek there because the second season of the Emmy-winning series dropped on the streamer March 29th, which continues the slightly serialized adventures of the subterranean creatures known as Fraggles, their tiny industrious building neighbors, the Doozers, and the “Outer Space” explorations of Uncle Traveling Matt.
“Wranglers really are, for the puppeteers, our life source because if we need a puppet to hold something, or to do something with their hands, or to have their pupils stuck a certain way for a shot to work, they are the ones who do that,” Tartaglia details. “They’re masters on how to figure out very difficult situations. We have our production meetings right before we shoot the next day, and they really are the secret sauce to figuring out how we can actually get it done.
The revival also introduced waterfalls and a real water pond—not CG, as many viewers assume. “The pond in the Great Hall is about eight feet deep,” Tartaglia details. “It’s cool because you do get that sense that it goes down deep. But it’s also practical because this season, we really wanted to do more in the water. We actually got in wetsuits as puppeteers and got in there so that we could really puppeteer them, and they could frame us out to make it look like they really were swimming.
“We wanted to make sure that we stayed true to the original designs, but we wanted to update them,” Bennett details. “I designed them on a computer, digitally.” In the software, Bennett was also able to create and render all of the Doozer accessories like tool belts, boots, and gloves in the computer and then print them out.
For their movement, Bennett says they still puppet Doozers with radio controlled, hand operated devices to move their bodies and mouths. The work of gadget and mechanical genius Faz Fazakas established the animatronic systems, which allows them to use RC controls to make the Doozers to drive their vehicles or move their construction machinery, with hand puppeteering rarely needed.
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