PuppetVision Archives: animatronics
06 Sep
2011
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...
09 Aug
2011
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...
06 Jul
2011
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...
03 May
2011
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...
27 Apr
2011
This is a hilarious little short directed by UK director and animatronics specialist John...
22 Apr
2011
Just some absolutely incredible animatronics by John...
08 Mar
2011
Have a look at the video above of the new "talking" animatronic Mickey Mouse that Disney has been testing at Disneyland in...
16 Feb
2011
This is a set of videos from Steve Johnson's Rubber Rules series that takes a look back at the making of The Abyss....
10 Feb
2011
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....
04 Jan
2011
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...
13 Dec
2010
Did you know that they make animatronics in Kazakhstan? Neither did...
09 Dec
2010
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...