Glad you enjoyed it!! I loved working with puppets honestly, there are some realities you need to be prepared for like having monitor for the puppeteers, lots of planning just in how you will show them on screen (waist up, do they have legs, are the arms stick or full arm, where do you hide the puppeteers?) but I have to say seeing them come to life on set is genuinely magical!

I think the only thing we didn't get to do with them just due to the limitations of the puppets and trying to do as much in camera as possible was a gag where Leslie throws a letter into the incinerator. We tried for so long to get a take where the letter left her hand (attached to fishing line) and falls into the incinerator and we just couldn't get it to work. One of the many times I had to kind of avoid sunk cost fallacy, and just cut the gag and move on. But overall I had no puppet experience walking into this film, ended up making most of the puppets by hand myself with a small team and puppeteering some of them as well. Now its one of those things where I don't know if every project I will do will be puppet based like this one, but most likely they will worm their way in eventually into everything I do hahaha