A very interesting short documentary about puppetry featuring Raven Kaliana and Full House Theatre Company....
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I’m a filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppeteers and puppetry around the world.
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Traditional Taiwanese Puppetry - http://puppetvision.info/2013/06/traditional-taiwanese-puppetry.html
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Youkiza is a 380 (!) year old Japanese Puppet Company - http://puppetvision.info/2013/06/youkiza-a-380-year-old-japanese-puppet-company.html
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The Hampster Dance returns and is highly adorable (UK)
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Punch and Judy Sign
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Creepy Punch
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Punch and Judy Cone Puppets
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Giant puppet engineering
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Effective ad reminding hockey parents to calm down
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Great advice about how to write better characters that audiences actually care about from screenwriting teacher John...
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82-year-old Chinese puppet master Chen Xi Huang demonstrated traditional Chinese hand puppetry at the TEDxShanghai conference earlier this...
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Late last year Mark Mayerson posted a really interesting article on his blog about why audiences prefer films that present themselves in a way that closely resembles their world as they perceive it everyday. Lately I've been thinking about how that general idea might apply to...
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The quality of the footage in this YouTube playlist isn't great, but it features the highly regarded Stephen Mottram demonstrating some beautiful, remarkably life-like marionette manipulation...
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Over at my Machin-X: Digital Puppetry blog, I did a post today about "facial puppetry" a really interesting and quickly emerging computer vision technique....
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Several months ago I had the privilege of attending a great event in New York called Warhorse: The Puppeteers Speak. Hosted by The New School, it was one of the most interesting discussions about puppetry that I've ever...
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The more artists explore new frontiers in interactive art, the more I often mind myself wondering where exactly to draw the line between what is animation and what is puppetry, like this performance system by Chris...
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Back in November I wrote about those Kinect digital shadow puppets that went viral. Kinect hacking has come a long way in the few short months since then and the potential implications for digital puppetry is...
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Animator (and puppeteer) Pete Paquette recently gave a talk to fellow animators at Blue Sky Studios about how he uses puppetry to inspire his animation....
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I’ve been interested in the possibilities of digital puppetry for a long time. I started a blog called Machin-X devoted to the subject back in 2005 and I’ve even experimented with my own digital puppetry system. The idea of digital puppets isn’t new; Jim Henson created Waldo C. Graphic – the first true digital puppet...
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I have a unified theory of puppet performance that I’ve taken to calling “Six Principles of Great Puppetry”. It’s been slowly simmering in my brain for at least as long as I’ve been writing this blog. I’ve written some posts over the years that discuss various aspects of it, which was inspired by Disney’s famous...
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