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01 Mar 2012 Scooter at TED 2012

Earlier this week Scooter made an appearance at the TED 2012 conference, making a tongue-in-cheek presentation called Can Tactile Icons Survive in an Integer-Driven Environment? in which he made the case for puppets over...

08 Feb 2012 Highly Strung in Australia

Dave Jones recently wrote in to share his amazing outdoor performance piece Highly Strung, which combined large scale puppetry and animated projections....

28 Dec 2011 2011, Buh-Bye!

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...

26 Oct 2011 The Panda Rabbit

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...

25 Oct 2011 “Bunraku” Opening Titles

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...

03 Oct 2011 Monday Morning Inspiration: John K’s Simpsons Couch Gag

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....

21 Sep 2011 Facial (Digital) Puppetry

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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