To bring your puppet to life, Ziner said, it needs three things: breath, focus and weight. "Always paying attention to your breath and putting breath into your puppets," they said.

How do you feed a puppet? That was the first question that came to mind as I watched Waffles + Mochi, Netflix’s delightful new children’s series made by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher ...

The puppet's torso rests in slots over the legs so it easily slides up and down, making the horse appear to exhale and inhale as the heart puppeteer bends and straightens its knees.

Michelle Zamora, of Viva La Puppet, has worked as a puppeteer on titles including “Garfunkel & Oates,” “Comedy Central’s Adult Swim Fun House” and “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” to name ...