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20 Jan 2007
How Shadowmation Works

A drawing from the U.S. patent for the Shadowmation puppetry system. I’ve written before about Mitchell Kriegman’s patented Shadowmation system (see previous post) that combines Bunraku-style puppetry with digital sets in real-time. Google recently launched a new patent search feature and I decided to test drive it by looking up the U.S. patent for Shadowmation....

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17 Nov 2006 Puppet staging: Creating Emphasis
Puppet staging: Creating Emphasis

If you want to see some great examples of puppet staging, watch old Muppet segments from the `70s and early `80s. Almost all of the early Muppet segments on Sesame Street were shot in one long continuous take with only a couple quick cut-aways to close-up shots. That’s sometimes hard to do from a puppeteering...

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07 May 2006
Rules for puppet revolutionaries

It’s amazing to see the amount of puppetry work that’s emerging through the `net. I have no doubt that the artform’s next Jim Henson or Bill Baird is going to emerge right here on the world wide web. For those who are looking to be the next puppetry revolutionary, here’s some “rules” and food for...

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26 Nov 2005
HPCS and other digital puppetry systems

Today someone sent me a link to an old article at LinuxDevices.com about the Henson Performance Control System (HPCS), the computerized control system used by the Jim Henson Creature Shop to control both the company’s physical (animatronic) and virtual (3D animated) characters in real-time. The article is about three years old and written with a...

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