Special effects?

[Well Dressed Puppet]

Hey, everyone,

I currently have plans in the works for building a puppet that I'd like to have "breathe smoke" on demand, and I'm curious to know if anyone has a good technique for that?  I know about using baby powder/corn starch, but the puppet will be black fur, and I'd rather not have white powder get on that. Any suggestions?

[sspuppets]

Is dry ice,water in a jug and aquarium tubing a option?

Ss Puppets

[Puppets And Stuff]

If you have a magic store close to you, you might be able to find what is called "Smoke In A Can". You can find it other places the deal with security or fire protection often. Here is a web link for it: http://www.gesecurity.com/portal/site/GESecurity/menuitem.f76d98ccce4cabed5efa421766030730?selectedID=610&seriesyn=false&t=prod

Here are some other ideas for smoke: http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/using/smoke.html

[Well Dressed Puppet]

Thanks, everyone!    I appreciate the advice.

What I'm trying to do is re-build an almost-life-size horse puppet that I've used for various things over the years (the Headless-Horseman-on-a-horse, a Lord of the Rings Ringwraith-on-a-horse, etc.), and I'd love to figure out a way for it to breathe smoke out of its nose. So having tubing from its nose through the neck to some kind of mechanism I can access in one hand and operate would be the ideal situation. I wouldn't use it all the time--there are times when I'm wanting the horse to look friendly, and wouldn't need the smoke, but others when the smoke would be a neat additional effect...

[confused monkey]

  That sounds like one great puppet. I would love to see a picture of it when you are done. Steve

[Puppets And Stuff]

The smoke in a can should work well for what you are doing. You'll just need to devise a way of connecting the nozzle of the can to the tube you are inserting in the puppet.  I built a dragon that blew smoke out of it's mouth but we simply used talcum powder. We loaded up the tube with powder and then when we wanted the smoke the puppeteer blew into the tube. The residue was not too bad on the puppet as long as we kept it cleaned off between uses.

[Well Dressed Puppet]

Thanks for the advice on this, everyone!  I'm going to tinker around with some of these things and see what I come up with.   And I'll definitely post pics of the finished puppet!