It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
Take what you got and fly with it.
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it.
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.