Hello Barry,
This has been such a useful website for my college course in the past few months, I'd like to show you what your helpful hints helped me on:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26355482/ You'll need to press 'download to desktop' to view.
We had to take a piece of dialogue from a film, design a character and build a puppet to animate to it.
I hope you like it!
Sam
p.s. I met you about a month ago at Cosgrove Hall when I was visiting with a couple of chums from college.