Artist | Puppeteer | Filmmaker
Toby Froud
Around the world, countless movie fans remember Toby Froud for his role as “Baby Toby” in Jim Henson’s 1986 feature film Labyrinth. The son of the film’s conceptual designer Brian Froud and puppet builder Wendy Froud, Toby continues to create creature effects and puppets for film and television. Since 2009, Toby has worked in the stop-motion industry as a puppet sculptor and fabricator, working with several companies, including LAIKA. Toby’s work includes ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link. After spending almost two years supervising, sculpting, and fabricating on the live action TV series Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance for Netflix, he returned to stop-motion to work as lead sculptor and fabricator on Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio.