Another amazing thing about the spot is that it called for us to create forty alien puppet heads, and we also got to design the alien heads. It was a dream come true for the crew at Anatomorphex. Within a limited schedule, we designed and sculpted seven original alien head puppets, that we then created variations of to create the forty puppets. The hero alien puppet heads were cast in softened silicone rubber over hand shaped cores, so you could make them talk and give them general movement with one hand. That left the other puppeteer’s hand free to work a remote control radio for the eyes, eyelids, tentacles and other facial details. Seven puppeteers each performed with one of the seven hero heads, and the remaining background heads were set up on two long pivoting arm rigs that enabled one puppeteer to keep them in motion. To celebrate and pay tribute to the Taco Bell straws with weighted eyeballs in liquid, we gave one of the aliens -Eraserhead- animatronic eyes with he eyeballs also floated suspended in liquid. This gave a great effect when the eyes were moved, the eyeballs had a lag time in responding, and had a spooky, erratic movement as they turned. We also placed tubes in three nose orifices on Eraserhead, that we blew smoke through when he got excited. We responded to the challenge of the spot by bringing the kitchen sink and everything we could to it.