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		<title>Thought, focus and Achmed The Dead Terrorist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most popular puppets on YouTube has got to be Achmed The Dead Terrorist, a creation of Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. Achmed is a brilliant idea for a character - even if Jeff's humour is sometimes questionable - but what I think really makes audiences respond to Achmed is the way Jeff performs him, especially the way he creates the illusion of thought and focus.]]></description>
		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2010/03/achmed-the-dead-terrorist-thought-and-focus.html</link>
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		<title>Shadow Puppetry Perfume Commercial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I've mentioned before, good puppetry - 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 commercial for Surf Twilight Sensations takes full advantage of.]]></description>
		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2010/03/shadow-puppetry-perfume-commercial.html</link>
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		<title>Higglety Pigglety Pop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just watched two clips from the upcoming NFB adaptation of the Maurice Sendack classic Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life and I haven't been this excited to see a puppet film in awhile. It's directed by Canadian filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski who previously directed the acclaimed stop motion film Madame Tutli-Putli. Higglety Pigglety Pop is done in a hybrid style that's very similar to Tutli-Putli, utilizing live-action puppets, actors, animation and digital manipulation.]]></description>
		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2010/02/higglety-pigglety-pop.html</link>
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		<title>Pili Prestige: The Dragon Warrior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 animation, slick editing, and traditional Chinese hand puppetry.]]></description>
		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2010/02/pili-prestige-the-dragon-warrior.html</link>
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		<title>Russ Walko Demo Reel</title>
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I greatly enjoyed watching the demo reel of puppeteer Russ Walko this morning.
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		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2010/02/russ-walko-demo-reel.html</link>
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		<title>The Line Keeps Getting Blurred</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, Stephen Worth has a short post about animating robots. Stephen mentions how the job description of an animator is rapidly changing and muses about the possibility of animators being hired to &#8220;animate&#8221; robots, which sounds suspiciously similar to what a puppeteer does.
Although robots and automata aren&#8217;t generally considered puppets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2010/02/the-line-keeps-getting-blurred.html</link>
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		<title>Hand Ninja</title>
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I love this &#8220;Hand Ninja&#8221; video. Clever, simple, effective. Most importantly, the girls in this video are obviously having fun. More puppetry should be like this.
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		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2010/01/hand-ninja.html</link>
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		<title>Control, you must learn control!</title>
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Remember this scene in The Empire Strikes Back? Much like being a Jedi, the key to mastering the art of puppetry is control&#8230;in order to be a good puppeteer you must learn control! (wise Master Yoda is, isn&#8217;t he?).
More important than lip sync, eye focus or any of those other puppetry concepts, the first skill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2010/01/control-you-must-learn-control.html</link>
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		<title>Steve Whitmire Puppetry Lecture and Workshops in Atlanta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is presenting a lecture and workshop by Steve Whitmire called "Steve Whitmire: Perspectives - The Sentient Puppet" this month.]]></description>
		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2010/01/steve-whitmire-puppetry-lecture-and-workshops-in-atlanta.html</link>
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		<title>Never Had a Year Like `09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, another year has come and gone. I've been a little too busy doing puppetry to write about for the past several months, but before 2009 comes to a close I wanted to share JibJab's annual year end video, Never a Year Like `09.]]></description>
		<link>http://puppetvision.info/2009/12/never-had-a-year-like-09.html</link>
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