I’m a filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppeteers and puppetry around the world.
Piramide de los Nichos, El Tajin, Papantla, Mexico. Really fascinating and important Mesa-American archaeological site I visted several times in 2005-07.
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Animatronic Singing Beaker-bot
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Wooden handmade puppet
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Punch and Judy Theatre
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Printable Bird Finger Puppets
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Niki Ulehla
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Man Ray, 1920
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Vintage Guignol French puppet theater
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Rob Legato has created special effects for blockbuster movies like Apollo 13, Titanic and Hugo. In this talk at the TED Global Conference he explains how he creates and enhances reality on-screen to inspire awe in...
Muppet performer Dave Goelz talks about his experiences with stage...
Howard Berger is an Academy Award Winning special effects artist and the co-founder of KNB EFX Group. In this in-depth half hour interview he talks about how he got started in the business, being mentored by Stan Winston and how practical and digital special effects work...
One of the many talented puppeteers at Dragon*Con earlier this month was Gordon Smuder, presented an Advanced Puppet Construction...
Great advice about how to write better characters that audiences actually care about from screenwriting teacher John...
One of the biggest challenges in on-camera puppetry is simply keeping your head out of the way. It’s frustrating to do a great take, only to discover during playback that their head is right smack in the middle of the shot, but if that discovery happens after you finish shooting it can be a disaster...
Good advice from Seth Godin about...
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...
Here is some good advice for writers from a man who knew a thing or two about it, John...
Believe it or not, one of my favourite blogs about filmmaking is written by The Incredible Hulk...or at least someone very smart who likes to pretend that he...
Film critic Jim Emerson provides a very detailed breakdown of an action sequence from "The Dark Knight" and explains why it's confusing. A great lesson in editing and basic film...
I think Mark Kennedy’s Temple of the Seven Golden Camels is one of the smartest blogs about animation out there. One of Mark’s recent posts was about seemingly fun, light hearted movies that actually deal with some very dark themes. He explains that although a movie trailer filled with lots of gags and the promise...