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Comment on Monday Morning Inspiration: Silhouette by PuppetVision » Shadow Puppetry Perfume Commercial

PuppetVision » Shadow Puppetry Perfume Commercial — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:32:49 +0000

[...] much like good animation – requires a good understanding of the power of silhouette (see previous post). There probably no more pure example of that than shadow puppetry, a medium that this new [...]

Comment on New Pili Opening Sequence by PuppetVision » Pili Prestige: The Dragon Warrior

PuppetVision » Pili Prestige: The Dragon Warrior — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:55:35 +0000

[...] spotted this video from the latest version of the long-running Taiwanese puppet series Pili (see previous post) over on Kelvin Kao’s blog. As per usual, it’s a mind-bending mix of computer [...]

Comment on The Muppet Mobile Lab Visits Pixar by PuppetVision » The Line Keeps Getting Blurred

PuppetVision » The Line Keeps Getting Blurred — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:09:11 +0000

[...] by toy companies to help “animate” electronic toys like Furby and Disney projects like the Muppet Mobile Lab have taken pupppetry and robotics to a whole new level in recent [...]

Comment on Never Had a Year Like `09 by Geoff

Geoff — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:56:10 +0000

Thanks for the blog

Comment on Puppetry: Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You? by Alan Cook

Alan Cook — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:55:34 +0000

I finally saw WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. It had been on my to do list. But frankly, I felt some disappointment. The biggest problem for me was the jerky camera movement which induced a bit of sea-sickness or nausea. It was as dramatic a contrast to camera work in A SINGLE MAN as I could imagine.

The WILD BEINGS had the desired quality of being close to the original book ikllustrations–which was a plus. I had greater satisfaction from seeing BEING JOHN MALKOVITCH– which pulled off making a fantastic entry into Malkovich’s brain believable. And BEING JOHN MALKOVICH was not saddled with jerky camera work.

Amplifying a short book with minimal wordage into a feature film can be a challenge. But to have the boy actually set out in a real boat in search of a wild land, instead of fnding it within the walls of his bedroom, for me, misses a point of the book.

As a kid, I travelled to space in my dreams, saw moving patterns in wallpaper.

Comment on Puppetry: Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You? by Alan Cook

Alan Cook — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:34:00 +0000

Two pupet films well worth seeing more than once were/are CORALINE and FANTASTIC MR. FOX. BOTH were among the best films of recent memory, both were expertly put tgether “by hand”.

Comment on Tough Pigs’ Week With Steve Whitmire by PuppetVision » Steve Whitmire Puppetry Lecture and Workshops in Atlanta

PuppetVision » Steve Whitmire Puppetry Lecture and Workshops in Atlanta — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:28:23 +0000

[...] Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is presenting a lecture and workshop by Steve Whitmire (see previous post) called Steve Whitmire: Perspectives – The Sentient Puppet, “an exploration of the [...]

Comment on Greetings From Hell by PuppetVision » Never Had a Year Like `09

PuppetVision » Never Had a Year Like `09 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:40:48 +0000

[...] has never been shy about mixing a little puppetry in with their animation (see previous posts here and here), but I was really struck by just how much live action and puppetry they incorporate in to [...]

Comment on Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody by PuppetVision » Puppetry: Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You?

PuppetVision » Puppetry: Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You? — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:09:18 +0000

[...] is starting to pay attention. The Muppets’ latest viral video, Bohemian Rhapsody (see previous post), has been watched close to 5 million times since it debuted on Monday, part of Disney’s [...]

Comment on Puppet staging and composition by PuppetVision » Taking it to a New Level in the New Year

PuppetVision » Taking it to a New Level in the New Year — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:28:22 +0000

[...] of the most important elements of any great puppet film or video is puppet staging and shot composition. Good staging is really important because it creates emphasis (tells the audience what to pay [...]