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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About The Author
I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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