During the process of making an object animated, puppets are a little more complicated to animate because they have many moving parts. A puppet must be flexible but able to hold any pose for an extended period of time. Inside are kinematic chains made of aluminum wire or specially engineered joints, called an armature. Even a puppet’s clothing usually has a wire in it, so it can hold gravity-defying poses. Most puppets can’t stand by themselves; they must be screwed to the set or supported by a rig that is digitally erased later.