I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
The Panda Rabbit is a really cool mash-up of puppetry, stop-motion…and a giant panda suit. It’s the debut film of Randy D. Rosario and, if this film is any indication what he can do, he’s a filmmaker who is really worth keeping an eye on. Here’s a fascinating look behind-the-scenes to see how he made...
Although the independent feature film Bunraku has little or no connection to puppetry, its brilliant opening titles are filled with it. The sequence takes the audience from the creation of the earth, to the dawn of human civilization and up to the present day. A key theme in the titles is the increasingly rapid development...
Part of Spitting Image's legacy is that it inspired a series of similar shows around the world. One of the most recent examples is ZA News, a web series that pokes fun at politics in South Africa, which has a strong tradition of political...
Back in 2005 The British Film Institute hosted a special tribute to the series that included a panel discussion with several members of the Spitting Image creative team, including co-creator Peter Fluck, voice artist Steve Nallon and puppeteer Louise Gold....
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...
An example of how to puppeteer real, live...
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...
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...
Earlier this year Nokia decided to launch a pink version of their Nokia N8 smartphone with a nicely done music video starring a dancing...
The Beat Hotel is an adult puppet comedy series from Northern Ireland that is built around the adventures of a cast of slightly unhinged residents in an old run down...
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...
After many delays and setbacks, production has finally begun on The Hobbit, the two-part film "prequel" to The Lord of the Rings. This is the first of what promises to be many video blogs from the set in New Zealand and it looks like we may be witnessing the making of another...