Sans Strings Studio

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

She's sassy!

Let's goooo! Thank you Polygon!

Felt That Boxing screenshot showing a puppet training in a boxing ring

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

Big love to #SummerGameFest for letting us unleash puppet chaos at this year's fest.

In collab with #StoopidBuddyStoodios and #FlyingLotus

🔥 #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.

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This game is currently in development.
🥊 WISHLIST FOR UPDATES: link in bio!
🎮 FUR-FILL YOUR DESTINY