Well, doesn't this look like it's going to be good. Not that I would expect anything less from these fine...
This is a stop motion re-imagining of the intro to the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon show. It was directed by an Oklahoma filmmaker named Kyle Robert for the Toy and Action Figure Museum and has been generating a lot of buzz...
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...
A really, really awesome fan-made set of opening titles for this summer's upcoming The Dark Knight Rises created by Doğan Can...
Dave Jones recently wrote in to share his amazing outdoor performance piece Highly Strung, which combined large scale puppetry and animated projections....
I really like this animated spot that John Kelly directed for Chipotle. It's about a farm losing its way by because of industrialization...and then reverting back to a sustainable, happier...
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...
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...
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....
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....














