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Click the DESIGN GALLERY button to see Chip's own puppetry design work.

Chip's love of puppetry goes back to dreams of being a muppeteer, and creating a puppet troupe with his best friend, Rusty, called the J. D. Huppets. (Yes, we actually created a Colonel Sanders look-alike character with that name.)

He would return to this role for 4 years (1990-1993) while also performing the duties of creature wrangler, responsible for upkeep of the wide array of creatures.

Professionally, his puppetry career took off when he was invited to assist Brad Williams in creating the creatures for a adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman's Nutcracker, while also playing the role of the antagonist, Queen Mouserinks

Watch my puppetry reel below.

In 2005, on the set of Come On Over, Joel Schoon-Tanis' children's television program, Chip was invited, in addition to playing the antagonist role of Mr. Flabbinjaw, to live out the closest he would come to his childhood dream of performing puppetry on television, as the role of Joel's pet cat, Pooh Kitty.
He also got to assist Lisa Buckley, noted for being part of the design pair for Alf, the alien from the 80's sitcom, who, along with her husband, created all of the puppets being used in Come On Over.