I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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European Buildings built out of paper by Megan Brain.
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Hand craved foam puppet head by Phil Fletcher.
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Simpsons couch gag animated by John K.
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This is a "finger puppet remix" of The Mysterious Ticking Noise, the most popular puppet video in YouTube's history that we produced over a year ago at Unraku. The audio is from Neil Cicierega's original video, but the puppet stage and hand crocheted finger puppets were made by the Unraku...
If you're familiar with the "Ugly Doll" plush toy phenomenon or a regular at any of the art or craft shows in Toronto, you may already know the work of Monster Factory. They're a company based here in Toronto that produce line of colourful Monster plush toys and have been doing a lot of puppetry...
Diggy the traffic cone stars in Hard Work Ahead, a demo for a TV show concept called Curbs. Curbs is a proposed puppet series from Mark Evestaff and Jonathan Baudoin that revolves around three characters – Lesley, B-Roll and Diggy – trying to make it in New York City. They’ve shot a promo for the...
Proposed puppet TV series Transylvania TV has a brand new web site. The pilot for Transylvania TV (see previous post) was completed and broadcast on local TV in the Minneapolis/St. Paul last year and creator Gordon Smuder has been shopping it around ever since. There’s no word yet on when we’ll be seeing more episodes,...
Mr. Furry Fur Fur and his friend Flutter learn about the environment together. Mr. Furry Fur Fur is an adorable pilot – with an adorable name – for an eco-friendly children’s television show from Ingaldson-Smith Productions. The puppet “star” of the show is an adorable raccoon built by Maria Gurevich of Furry Puppet who teaches...
The pilot episode of the local TV puppet show Transylvania Television has been put online. Gordon wrote in to say that someone has apparently put the pilot episode of his show Transylvania Television (see previous post) online. The pilot of “TVTV” recently aired in Minneapolis so if you’re not a local, but having been wanting...
Transylvania TV and a cast of ghoulish characters led by Count LeShoc are coming to TVs near Minnesota soon. One upcoming puppetry project I am really looking forward to is Transylvania TV or “TVTV” from Gordon Smuder (see previous post). TVTV looks great with nice puppets and amazingly detailed props and sets (not surprising since...
Jim Henson introduces a pioneering reality TV concept called Handmade Video. There’s a long list of things that Jim Henson developed, revolutionized and experimented with, everything from puppetry on television, to multimedia nightclubs, animatronics, fantasy film, digital puppetry and, apparently, reality TV too. Handmade Video was a demo/pilot shot in 1990 shortly before Jim’s death...
Laugh Pad is a concept for a proposed TV series that would utilize digital puppetry. Here’s some test footage for Laugh Pad, a new digital puppetry series developed by Jim Henson Company and The Dan Clark Company. I love the main character (is Lagoon his name?) and his infectious laugh. It looks like this show...
Puppet Rapist is sort of disturbing on several different levels, but really well done. It's a five minute pilot for a show about a convicted "puppet rapist" who has to return to life on the outside in world populated with...
