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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Still crazy with work on two film projects, but so I don’t completely fall behind here’s a quick round-up of recent news and interesting links from around the puppetry interwebs: I’m sad to hear that we’ve lost another great, well-known puppeteer…Van Snowden – who played characters like H.R. Pufnstuf, Chucky in the Child’s Play horror...
The Jim Henson Co. has launched a new blog called "Jim Henson's Red Book" based on the master puppeteer's person work diary, which he kept from the mid 1960s until just a few years before his...
ABC News pays a visit to The Puppet Kitchen in New York, home of Eric Wright, Emily Decola and Michael...
You don’t have to work for the Henson Company, perform on TV or have years of experience to have a good demo reel. For example, I think Lesley Raybon’s demo reel is excellent. I’m unfamiliar with her work, but her resume seems typical of most puppeteers. She seems to have mostly done local or regional...
This is Swazzle’s demo reel. Like the reel for Puppet Heap that I posted yesterday, Swazzle does the montage thing I advise against. And this is another example of an exception to that rule, because this isn’t just a puppeteer demo reel, it’s promoting their company and all of the services they provide. There are...
Puppet Heap's reel is a montage and includes some fancy editing, but this is one case where that's probably OK, despite what I said about montages in demo reels. They have almost 20 years of experience working on some of the most high profile projects in the...
My sincere apologies to Julio Robles, but please don’t make a demo reel like this one. Julio is actually a pretty good puppeteer and a very creative guy, but this reel doesn’t showcase his talents well at all. I kind of debated whether or not I should post this because I don’t usually like to...
Julianne Buescher has one of the best demo reels I've ever seen. Not just because she's a great puppeteer and works on a lot of fun projects with the Henson Company, but also because her reel is really well thought out and well...
I'm a little late posting this, but in case you haven't already listened to it, Steve Swanson had a great chat with Muppeteer Bill Baretta on The Muppetcast a few weeks...
I was very sad to hear today about the passing of Frank Ballard. Although perhaps not well known to the general public, in puppetry circles Frank was a renowned designer and puppeteer who built over 1,500 puppets and directed 100 puppet operas and musicals over the course of his career. Probably his greatest contribution to...
Puppeteer Dave Goelz as a Muppet. `Nuff...
I greatly enjoyed watching the demo reel of puppeteer Russ Walko this...
