I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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European Buildings built out of paper by Megan Brain.
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Hand craved foam puppet head by Phil Fletcher.
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Simpsons couch gag animated by John K.
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The Smurfs opens in theatres today here in North America. Deborah Glassberg and James Wojtal Jr. designed and built these marionettes of Papa Smurf and Smurfette for one of the film's opening...
This spoof from College Humor reminds us that some cliques are harder to get into than Gryffindor....
It may have been two months and too many Internet parodies since the Katy Perry/Sesame Street fiasco, but I think the folks at College Humor may have saved the best for...
This is the music video for singer/song writer Chris Garneau’s latest single Dirty Night Clowns. Directed by Ryan Gibeau, it features marionettes by Jeremy Selenfriend, Tom Newby and James Wojtal. The puppeteers who worked on the video were Jamie Elizabeth Moore and Mike Leach of Puppetworks and James Wojtal. Via James. 11/10/10 Update: There is...
Puppets are being used to promote this year’s Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco. I love this fun commercial for San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival. It was produced by Ghost Robot, the company that produced Morningwood’s Sugarbaby video. The puppets in the video were built by James Wojtal and the puppeteer cast included James, Frankie...
A puppet stars in New York alternative rock band Morningwood’s latest music video. The video for Sugarbaby – the latest single from NY-based alternative rock band Morningwood – features another puppet by James Wojtal (see previous post). I’ve linked to the “clean” version of the video, but there’s a more explicit one floating around on...
Diggy the traffic cone stars in Hard Work Ahead, a demo for a TV show concept called Curbs. Curbs is a proposed puppet series from Mark Evestaff and Jonathan Baudoin that revolves around three characters – Lesley, B-Roll and Diggy – trying to make it in New York City. They’ve shot a promo for the...
The music video for the Greyboy Allstars’ Still Waiting features a cast of puppet characters. The Greyboy Allstars have an awesome new music video for their song Still Waiting that features puppets built by The Monkey Boys and a puppeteer cast that includes Scott Hitz, Michael Latini, Paul Mcginnis, Russel Tucker, James Wojtal, Mark Petrasino,...
Time Suck is a new puppet video podcast aimed at mature audiences. I really dig Time Suck, a new puppet video podcast from Charged, the folks behind Smoking Gun TV (see previous post). The puppetry is good, the writing is smart (if graphic), but what I like most about it are the little touches like...
A “puppet test” on YouTube features a nice puppet by James Wojtal.James Wojtal (see previous post) has labeled this a “test” and it is pretty short, but I am thinking that the final version of this Save A Toad PSA would turn out pretty nice. The toad is a great looking puppet and nicely performed,...
