The year is drawing to a close and that means it's time for JibJab's annual year-end salute to the year that just...
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About The Author
I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
The Panda Rabbit is a really cool mash-up of puppetry, stop-motion…and a giant panda suit. It’s the debut film of Randy D. Rosario and, if this film is any indication what he can do, he’s a filmmaker who is really worth keeping an eye on. Here’s a fascinating look behind-the-scenes to see how he made...
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Although the independent feature film Bunraku has little or no connection to puppetry, its brilliant opening titles are filled with it. The sequence takes the audience from the creation of the earth, to the dawn of human civilization and up to the present day. A key theme in the titles is the increasingly rapid development...
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Animation legend John Kricfalusi animated the opening “couch gag” on The Simpsons last night. It’s was a special surprise and done in John K’s signature style and full of lots of delicious, over-the-top animation. You can see some of the sketches and concept art for the sequence on John’s blog....
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Over at my Machin-X: Digital Puppetry blog, I did a post today about "facial puppetry" a really interesting and quickly emerging computer vision technique....
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Star Wars is coming to Blu-ray on September 12th and as we've come to expect, it's arriving with a few new tweaks. one of the most extensive is the replacement of the animatronic Yoda puppet in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace with a new CGI...
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Something Left, Something Taken is a very cool little hand-crafted film by Tiny Inventions, an animation studio in Brooklyn, New York that consists of Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata. Together they primarily produce animated commercials and produce their own short films on the side. They have an incredibly extensive (and somewhat technical) “making of” for...
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Director Rob Shaw used a clever blend of 2D and 3D animation techniques to bring this great video for I'm Impressed by They Might Be Giants to...
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Remember Dot, the world’s smallest stop motion film from back in January? Well, now Aardman Animation has gone in exactly the opposite direction for Gulp, which has broken a world record for the world’s “largest stop-motion animation set” at over 11,000 square feet and like Dot was shot using Nokia N8 smartphones. Here’s a look...
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Last week we took a quick look at WarSheep and An Attic Full of Puppets, two puppetry projects that are looking for support via crowdfunding. I wanted to follow those up with Cicada Princess, a beautiful looking film that’s currently in production thanks to a very successful fundraising campaign on Kickstarter. Cicada Princess is actually...
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Damon Bard is a conceptual designer in the animation industry. His portfolio is filled with some incredible sculpture that he's done on features like Kung-Fu Panda 2 (see previous post), How To Train Your Dragon, Coraline and much...
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This is a music video for the Disasteroid song "Chasing Ghosts" that was produced by students in the Motion Graphic Design Program at Ex’pression College For Digital Arts....
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