I was lucky enough to have a small thing coming up in a new Smiling Friends episode. Until then, here's Allan (not the thing I made for the show, but still fun to play with!) 😊 #UnrealEngine #RealTime #SmilingFriends

T is for... 🌈 Gonk screamed so hard he phased into a whole new vibe. Honestly? Inspirational. ✨ Drop a 🌈 if your enlightenment also sounded like yelling. 👀 Join the movement. https://www.youtube.com/@GleefulBeasts #Animation #UnrealEngine #Puppets #Music #ComedyVideo

Finally dipping my toe into some RealTime #b3d Evee is so good! #RealTime #Blender

Some #VR doodles last night with #Substance3DModeler rendered with #MarmosetToolbag

Testing Allan's tie #UnrealEngine #SmilingFriends #DigitalPuppetry

Today’s alphabet lesson brought to you by the letter R… Zero rhythm with maximum screaming. Drop an 🔊 if your learning style is also “vibing loudly in confusion.” 👀 Join the party. Woohoo! https://www.youtube.com/@GleefulBeasts #Animation #UnrealEngine #Puppets #Music #ComedyVideo

When you finally meet God and still fail the vibes check. 😬👼 👀 Subscribe for weekly chaos, sanctioned by no known deity. https://www.youtube.com/@GleefulBeasts #Animation #UnrealEngine #Puppets #Music #ComedyVideo

🎙️ Episode 5 of Behind the Glee is LIVE. Meet the Refrigerated Gonk, a beast that’s somehow both frisky and now educated. 🥶 Watch now & Subscribe for weekly chaos. Woohoo! https://youtu.be/KB4niejiqzk #Animation #UnrealEngine #Puppets #Music #ComedyVideo

Breaking: The Gleeful Beasts Shop is ready for you.  You can finally wear the chaos and maybe even survive the alphabet. 👀 👕 Supersoft shirts. Questionable life choices. A Gonk or two. 🌀 https://gleeful-beasts-shop.fourthwall.com/  #Animation #UnrealEngine #Puppets #Music #ComedyVideo

The letter Q: peaceful, calm, serene. Gonk: absolutely none of the above. Drop your favorite “Q” word before everything starts shaking. 👀 👀 Subscribe for weekly chaos. Woohoo! . https://www.youtube.com/@GleefulBeasts #Animation #UnrealEngine #Puppets #Music #ComedyVideo

Spotted: Ryan Corniel's Jesse Ventura puppet saving the day on Adult Swim’s Smiling Friends. We’re lucky to have his brain leading Sans Strings by day, while his talents infiltrate adult animation by night. Never know where they'll show up next. Catch it on HBO Max!

Feeel the breeeze #UnrealEngine #RealTime

Before Gleeful Beasts hit 99K subs and 8.3M views... we were just making puppets jerk around in real-time. Then you joined our chaos ▶️ 7.3M video views 417K engagements 90+ episodes, 40+ characters (Testing confirms: the internet was ready for our puppet mockumentary. 👹)

"With puppets, there's so much weird stuff you can get away with.” CCO Ryan Corniel One pipeline ▶️ ✓ Gaming breakthrough @ Summer Game Fest ✓ Viral success globally ✓ Emmy + Netflix creator partnerships ✓ a16z speedrun Cross-platform isn't a feature—it's the foundation.

"Everything is real-time." – CEO Sébastien Deguy Our F.E.L.T. system ▶️ ✓ Cross-platform deployment ✓ Unprecedented speed ✓ End-to-end pipeline Our system doesn't replace creativity – it amplifies it. #DigitalPuppetry #Animation #UnrealEngine

Before Fuzz-E stepped into the ring... we were just making puppets punch each other in real-time. Then Summer Game Fest happened ▶️ 115K Steam wishlists 5M+ views 100+ press mentions 2.2K hours watched (Testing confirms: puppet boxing was exactly as unhinged as we thought it would be. 🥊)

Stuntman Stu = world's craziest stuntman who fails spectacularly. Challenge: Animate him driving and crashing motorcycles, rockets, cannons, cars... you get it. No match for Ryan + our real-time pipeline. 22 episodes of animated spectacular stunts! Thanks for the wild ride!

We animated 22 episodes for PlaymatesToys' new Stuntman Stu line. Toy designs → Real-time puppet pipeline → Action-packed episodes Ryan Corniel ( @dukegunston.bsky.social)  handled all animation through our real-time system. Animation as fast as the action.  #UnrealEngine

Silent but stylish. (Testing confirms: our tech captures tie physics perfectly. 💜) #DigitalPuppetry #Interactive #RealTimeAnimation #Animation #UnrealEngine

Couch potatoes leveling up. 🎮 (Testing confirms: our tech works on root vegetables. 🥔) #DigitalPuppetry #Interactive #RealTimeAnimation #Animation #UnrealEngine

String Theory – deranged puppets, shoestring budget, zero strings attached. Building with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (Robot Chicken, 9 Emmys). When you cut the strings, puppets get weird. Really weird. You'll see 👀 #StringTheory #DigitalPuppetry

Real-time puppeteering = every spontaneous choice captured instantly. Some sessions just hit different. (Yes, we're still geeking out over Sam Richardson‼️) #DigitalPuppetry #Animation

"It was pretty inspiring to see all these passionate entrepreneurs jumping full-on. The team at a16z is world class and the energy was golden." -Sebastien Deguy, CEO SR005 is off to a legendary start. Puppets incoming. No strings attached.

We're honored to be among the ~60 startups selected (out of 10,000+ applicants!) for a16z SR005. Week One brought lightning-round pitches and fireside chats with industry titans. Behind-the-scenes: https://speedrun.substack.com/p/scenes-from-sr-kickoff-week

Our Beasts have crossed into the physical realm Gleeful Gear & Goodies now live at gleefulbeasts.com/shop/ From character creation → community that demands floof products. Real-time puppeteering = audience-driven IP that scales. Grab your merch + join the puppet revolution!

Any puppet, any screen, anywhere. Balloof started as performance → now feeds fan communities, a YouTube series, and cross-platform content. Real-time puppeteering = content infrastructure that scales. Behind the Glee Ep 3 + cameraman incidents 👀 youtu.be/t7aC6QVfjY8

Fans are invested in how characters move and come alive through performance. 💬 "The way she squiggles as she floats away is kind of adorable!" "The texture on the hair and the movement" "The animations are beautiful."  Our system brings this authenticity to any IP we develop.

Balloof's growing wings promise nothing but doom, our system delivers. ZBrush → Substance 3D → Houdini → UE5 → movements are a live performance captured in real-time with Valve Index Controllers. Our system adapts – from shows to live events, games, and interactive spaces.

We’ve successfully flipped animation workflows! 6.2M+ views 92K+ fans 33K+ hours 395K+ interactions Gleeful Beasts is our sketch comedy mockumentary series with hilariously flawed beasts. We make puppets do stuff → Sparklegoose writes lines and adds music → gleeful chaos!

Johnson’s Mouth-Watering Bulge discovered its tragic destiny through movement first–meaning second. Last week, pure movement. Now it becomes lore for Gleeful Beasts' world. When tech eliminates barriers between performance and output–puppets tell their own stories.

Our digital puppeteering system transforms human movement into instant character animation – no strings attached. Anyone can bring characters to life using real-time control that's intuitive to learn and genuinely fun to use.   Get your puppet fix ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@SansStrings

We delivered this performance to our Gleeful Beasts partners – pure character movement captured with our real-time technology. No voices or narrative yet… just a character waiting to discover its story. From our pipeline to screen – we’ve started a puppet movement.

1️⃣month since #SummerGameFest 🎮 Still thinking about these ❤️ indies 💬 Out of Words - stunning stop-motion co-op 🦗 Infinitesimals - tiny aliens, big adventure 🎵 Mixtape - coming-of-age soundtrack Here's to devs who dare to make something different! Show em some love!💙

"Every shot in the trailer was performed with different controller types and every shot was captured in real-time with OBS," says Ryan Corniel, Sans Strings Studio COO.  It's a demo of puppets + real-time technology. Catch the trailer again ▶️ https://youtu.be/eSZCdxMQjxs

Real-time puppeteering =  ✨ No delay between input + output ⚡ Create content at ⚡ speed 🎭 Real-time feedback loop "With puppets, there's so much weird stuff you can get away with," says CCO Ryan Corniel. More at → https://speedrun.substack.com/p/how-game-engine-tech-powers-these

No pressure, Fuzz-E! Breaking: Animation studio becomes completely obsessed with their own puppet creations. More at 11. For your weekly Fuzz-E fix (because we know you need it too), check @FeltThatGame, Steam, and our YouTube Channel 🥊 We're all in this together now.

"Everything is real-time." Shares CEO Seb Deguy on our breakthrough pipeline in a new a16z speedrun article about Sans Strings Studio and Felt That: Boxing. Grateful to a16z for believing in our felt-covered chaos! 👉 speedrun.substack.com/p/how-game-e...

"THIS IS A GAME???" "Are you kidding me?" "Best looking game at Summer Game Fest." – watching you react to puppet boxing has been a blast. We’ve been swapping our fav reactions and had to compile them. Check out a few “wait, what?” moments. Thanks to every champion in our corner! 🥊Credits on YT!

📈 100,000 Steam wishlists ⏰ All in 7 days post-Summer Game Fest We built something weird but we knew y'all would get it! This is just round one. 🥊

This isn’t just a fighting game. It’s a full-contact puppet drama. 🎮 Narrative combat 💥 Furry Flurry + Poopet Blaster 🍞 Dodge toast + beat meat 🎶 Flying Lotus soundtrack Come for the puppet chaos. Stay for the emotional damage. Wishlist now → store.steampowered.com/app/3763840/...

🎮 Still buzzing from Summer Game Fest 2025! Huge thanks to #SummerGameFest and Geoff Keighley for letting us unleash fuzz-e mayhem in front of millions. To every dev who stepped into the spotlight swinging… you crushed it. The Tournament of a Million Punches is coming 🥊#Linkinbio

Let's goooo! Thank you Polygon!

Puppet-fronted comedy fighter Felt That: Boxing announced at Summer Game Fest www.eurogamer.net/puppet-front...

🔥 #SUMMERGAMEFEST 2025 JUST GOT FUZZ-E! Felt That: Boxing – a comedic, over-the-top boxing game set in a world where the charm of furry puppets collides with the fury of boxing. ⇢ This game is currently in development. 🥊 WISHLIST FOR UPDATES: link in bio! 🎮 FUR-FILL YOUR DESTINY