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...
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About The Author
I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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....
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Last week I posted the demo reel of Australian shadow puppeteer Stephen Mushin. This is the music video for Lior's I'll Forget You. which was featured in Stephen's...
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A beautiful show reel of shadow puppetry by Australian puppeteer Stephen...
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Me and My Monsters is a new live action series about a family who relocates from Australia to the UK only to discover there are monsters living in their basement....
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Just following up on my recent post about the giant Mayflower marionette commercial, above is the Australian TV spot that I referred to that also features a giant marionette. If, as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Royal DeLuxe should feel extremely flattered. Giant marionettes like theirs have been turning up...
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Con Quest is the host of the weekly Corporate Creatures Business News podcast. Corporate Creatures is a new initiative from puppeteer Gary Friedman. I talked with Gary about this project about a year ago and it’s really exciting to see it coming to life. Through Corporate Creatures Gary is providing live interactive corporate workshops, corporate...
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Dracula greets guests to The Monster’s Birthday Party. The Monster’s Birthday Party is a short film by Phillip Einfeld that’s in the same vein as Spook House Dave and Transylvania TV (me thinks me does detect a trend here). The puppetry in it is sometimes a little stiff, but the level of detail and work...
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Puppeteer Gary Friedman teaches TV puppetry workshops this spring in Sydney, Australia. Gary Friedman is once again teaching workshops in film & TV style puppetry in Sydney, Australia. The course runs from mid-April to early June 2008 and is “suitable for film makers, puppeteers, performers, and others interested in learning about how puppetry is made...
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Australian puppeteer Shan Jayaweera has posted the final installment of his John Howard puppet video blog. I’m not exactly timely posting this, but I wanted to mention that in a victory for left-leaning voters Down Under and friends of the environment everywhere, John Howard’s Liberal government was defeated in Australia over the weekend. Fittingly enough...
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A dancing marionette gets down to Stevie Wonder’s I Wish.This is a nifty video of a dancing marionette. It was shot as a demo/experiment in puppet manipulation by Shan Jayaweera, previously mentioned here for his YouTube video spoofs of Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Shan found this particular marionette on ebay, but these types of...
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Puppetry and politics collide once again on YouTube with John Howard: Search For A Scapegoat. John Howard: Search For A Scapegoat is the latest in a series of political puppetry satires from Shan Jayaweera that take aim at the Australian Prime Minister. It’s an election year down under and in Shan’s newest videos John Howard’s...
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