Tobias Matthew Froud (born 27 June 1984)[1] is an English-American artist, special effects designer, puppeteer, filmmaker, and performer.
[2][3] His parents met in 1978 while working on preproduction for the 1982 Jim Henson film The Dark Crystal, for which Brian was the conceptual designer and Wendy a puppet fabricator.
[17][19] In 2007 he built props and sets for the British children's television show What's Your News?, and created masks and puppets for the London theatre productions of Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella.
[17] In 2010 Froud worked for Legacy Effects in San Fernando, California as a fabricator on the film Cowboys & Aliens.
[5] He wrote and directed the 2014 fantasy short film Lessons Learned,[16] produced by Heather Henson's company IBEX Puppetry for its Handmade Puppet Dreams series.
[23][24] Froud spent two years serving as design supervisor on the 2019 streaming television series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a prequel to The Dark Crystal,[25][20] and in 2019 he began work as a puppet sculptor on the Guillermo del Toro film Pinocchio.