I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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...
How To Train Your Dragon Live is a new $20 million-plus arena show from the same team responsible for the internationally touring arena show Walking With...
This is clever ad for U.S. hamburger chain Carl's Jr. about a robot who comes home to discover that he can't eat their new chicken...
This clip from Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi provides a glimpse of how one of the original Star Wars trilogy's famous aliens, Admiral Ackbar, was brought to...
This is a hilarious little short directed by UK director and animatronics specialist John...
Just some absolutely incredible animatronics by John...
Have a look at the video above of the new "talking" animatronic Mickey Mouse that Disney has been testing at Disneyland in...
This is a set of videos from Steve Johnson's Rubber Rules series that takes a look back at the making of The Abyss....
I was doing some animatronics research the other day and I came across the YouTube channel of veteran FX artist Greg McKee, who has lots of great videos posted on YouTube....
This is a teaser for an upcoming DVD called An Even More Incredible Hulk from Steve Johnson's Eon Entertainment that promises "a stunning look at a 100% animatronic Hulk" that was developed, but never used for Ang Lee’s 2003 Incredible Hulk...
Did you know that they make animatronics in Kazakhstan? Neither did...
Cats and Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (see previous post) is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. Although audiences probably assume most what they're seeing on screen is CGI, the movie features some really sophisticated animatronic...