I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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...
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....
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...
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...
Back in November I wrote about those Kinect digital shadow puppets that went viral. Kinect hacking has come a long way in the few short months since then and the potential implications for digital puppetry is...
Another Monday morning, another amazing project from Aardman Animations to inspire...
Animator (and puppeteer) Pete Paquette recently gave a talk to fellow animators at Blue Sky Studios about how he uses puppetry to inspire his animation....
If you haven’t already seen this, watch it you must. It’s just ridiculously cool. Dot is billed as the world’s smallest stop motion animation. It was made by Aardman Animations using the Nokia N8 smartphone and the CellScope, an affordable microscopic adapter for cellphones that can be used to diagnose fatal diseases in remote areas...
Sad that the holiday is over? Well, Arthur Christmas looks like it will be something to look forward to next year. Directed by Sarah Smith and Barry Cook, it's being produced by the delightful folks at Aardman...
Ryan Estrada is a man. In Costa Rica. He's going to animate an entire animated feature. By himself. This...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is an incredibly faithful-looking adaptation of the classic holiday TV special at The Center For Puppetry Arts in...
Hatsune Miku is a sort of virtual pop star in Japan. Technically speaking, she's a "Vocaloid", an avatar for a singing synthesizer application developed using technology pioneered by Yamaha....