Puppetry students at the University of Hawaii re-create The Evolution of Dance with a puppet.
I love Bunraku-style puppetry, so I really enjoyed seeing A Study of Movement (The Evolution of Dance), a final project for a puppetry class at the University of Hawaii inspired by the famous YouTube viral video.
Nike’s MVPuppets campaign has been a huge hit with basketball fans.
Nike’s MVPuppets campaign (see previous posts here and here) keeps rolling right along. I think the bigger a fan of the NBA you are, the more you can appreciate these. The storyline in the ads has been following along with the NBA playoffs; in one [...]
Take a look behind the scenes of Abba’s The Last Video.
This is a follow-up to the post about Abba’s The Last Video; it’s a making of video that shows how the puppetry and effects in the video were achieved.
Special thanks to “Scuba Steve” for finding this!
Plato is a little blue alien created to promote Sony’s Walkman brand.
“Plato” is a blue alien character created for a series of Sony Walkman ads (watch them here and here). It’s always a little hard to tell watching heavily compressed video on YouTube, but I’m pretty sure he was realized as a Bunraku-style puppet.
Special thanks [...]
Kasou Taisho – a semi-annual competition with skits that frequently involve Bunraku-style puppetry- aired in Japan Wednesday night.
The latest Kasou Taisho special aired in Japan tonight which, in Japan, is already yesterday (it’s like they live permanently in the future!). Click “Read More” to see some of the best entries:
This was the winning entry, a [...]
The National Theatre’s Warhorse features stunning puppetry by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company.
The puppetry of Warhorse – a runaway hit currently playing in London’s West End – is absolutely stunning (you can watch a video here). As longtime PuppetVision readers already know, I love this sort of very realistic, highly technical puppetry and I dare [...]
Cats can be used for so many things…including apparently Bunraku-style puppetry.
Steve put together this cute video of a dancing cat using an animated gif he found on an image board (the original source is unknown). He calls it Kitty Kitty Cancan. I call it adorable.
Super Mario gets the Kasou Taisho treatment.
OK, this is pretty awesome. I’m not entirely sure, but I assume this is from a recent Kasou Taisho (see previous post).
A monster puppet stars in a recent commercial for Weight Watchers’ Momentum Program.
I love Hungry, the mascot of the Weight Watchers’ Momentum Program. We’re seeing a lot of this kind of thing in commercials and music videos and I think that this style of performing is probably the future of puppetry in film and video [...]
A Bunraku aquarium is performed on Japan’s Kasou Taisho.
Something that really seemed to really catch on in a big way on the web this past year was Kasou Taisho (see earlier post), a sort of semi-annual costume contest on Japanese TV that features amateur groups and solo artists performing short skits which frequently utilize Bunraku-style [...]
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