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During the camera tests, Martin Robinson was originally going to play Oobi, with Tim Lagasse playing side characters. However, Tim was so expressive that Martin decided to give him the role of Oobi. Tim "pushed the envelope" of what a hand puppet character could do.
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Oobi was made by Little Airplane Productions, a studio co-founded by Josh Selig and Lori Shaer. Both co-founders started their careers working on Sesame Street. Selig was inspired to create Oobi after watching puppeteers perform with their bare hands on the set of Sesame Street.
These were short, simple games that Oobi played with the audience. In season three, the game segments were taken out completely. The writers wanted to make the main stories longer and felt that the games would have gotten too repetitive if they kept using them.
Josh Selig, the creator of Oobi, was inspired to make the show after watching puppeteers on the Polish version of Sesame Street perform with their bare hands. After Oobi finished production, Josh Selig created the cartoon Wonder Pets .
Tim Lagasse was chosen to play Oobi because of his previous bare-handed puppetry in A Show of Hands, a series of short films he created in the early 1990s. Many of the techniques he used to convey expressions through hand motions in the films were carried over to Oobi .
Oobi is an American children's television series created by Josh Selig for Nickelodeon and its sister channel Noggin. The show's concept is based on a training method used by puppeteers , in which they use their hands and a pair of glass eyes instead of a full puppet.
Oobi is an original series based on NOGGIN’s own Parents’ Choice Gold Award-winning short-form series. Oobi, a bare-hand puppet (with eyes and accessories) focuses on the stage in a young child’s life when everything in his or her world is new and incredible. Oobi is a show about wonder.
