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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I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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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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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...
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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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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...
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Another Monday morning, another amazing project from Aardman Animations to inspire...
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