I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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...
I'm in New York today on a bit of whirlwind trip. Tonight I'm going to Warhorse: The Puppeteers Speak at The New School, a panel discussion about Warhorse and the medium of puppetry in general featuring Handspring Puppet Company co-founders Basil Jones and Adrian...
If you haven't already watched this you need to. It's an inspiring TED Talk with Handspring Puppet Company co-founders Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones explaining the evolution of their puppets, which culminated in the incredible horses of...
Remember Air Zealand's Rico? Well, he's back and this time he's teamed up with Snoop...
London's Little Angel Theatre has been consistently enchanting audiences and producing great puppetry for fifty...
This is a set of videos from Steve Johnson's Rubber Rules series that takes a look back at the making of The Abyss....
Another Monday morning, another amazing project from Aardman Animations to inspire...
If you haven’t already seen this, watch it you must. It’s just ridiculously cool. Dot is billed as the world’s smallest stop motion animation. It was made by Aardman Animations using the Nokia N8 smartphone and the CellScope, an affordable microscopic adapter for cellphones that can be used to diagnose fatal diseases in remote areas...
This is a few weeks late for Christmas perhaps, but I really liked this behind-the-scenes video for The Nativity Story, which premiered at the Orlando Puppet Festival a few months...
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...
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...
It's almost the end of the year and you know what that means...time for JibJab's annual salute to the year we've all just lived through. Although JibJab is primarily an animation studio, they've never shied away from blending puppetry and animation in the past (see previous post) and this year's video is almost entirely puppet...