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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....

06 Sep 2011 No more Yoda puppet in the Phantom Menace

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...

08 Aug 2011 Monday Morning Inspiration: World’s Largest Stop Motion Film

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...

02 Aug 2011 Cicada Princess

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...

20 May 2011 Chasing Ghosts

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....

23 Feb 2011 Chris O’Shea’s Little Magic Stories

The more artists explore new frontiers in interactive art, the more I often mind myself wondering where exactly to draw the line between what is animation and what is puppetry, like this performance system by Chris...

21 Feb 2011 Monday Morning Inspiration: Star Wars Uncut

The concept behind Star Wars Uncut is one of those seemingly preposterous ideas that can only flourish online. Vimeo developer named Casey Pugh challenged Star Wars fans around the world to collaboratively make a crowdsourced, shot-for-shot remake of Star Wars in short fifteen seconds chunks using any style of filmmaking they wanted. Fans sent in...

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