Frankie Cordero has built and performed puppet characters for Sesame Street, The Muppets, and projects with Fred Rogers Productions, often directing and storyboarding the work before it reaches the camera. His job lives in the physical construction of performance, where choices about movement, gaze, and limitation quietly determine whether a character feels real once it’s on screen.

Darrel Bowen has shaped the visual backbone of The Simpsons for almost twenty years, defining the production models that keep every character, prop, and object consistent across the series. We talked about the invisible rules that decide whether a design belongs in a world or quietly breaks it the moment it appears.