Animating with Stop Motion ProTM Building a Collage Puppet There is no need to build an elaborate puppet to practice anima- tion. Blending together found materials to create a fanciful charac- ter can be just as effective. A good exercise for animation students is to create a puppet character using found objects. For this exercise, I built a robot designed around an electronic theme. Collage puppets can be made from a variety of materials connected with flexible wire. A short trip to the store and a bit of imagination are all that you need. Figure 5.4 Walton animates a stop motion dinosaur for the original Land of the Lost. Note the surface gauge. Courtesy of Harry Walton, vfxmasters.com.