I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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European Buildings built out of paper by Megan Brain.
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Hand craved foam puppet head by Phil Fletcher.
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Simpsons couch gag animated by John K.
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Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Chinese Spring Festival. Lion and Dragon dances featuring giant puppets are a staple of the festivities in Chinese communities around the world, but to celebrate the Year of the Water Dragon children in Bangkok were recently treated to a special,...
"Master puppeteer" is a term that gets thrown around rather loosely (and often undeservedly) here in North America, but in Taiwan there is at least one man who is unquestionably a master: Huang...
I don't generally post puppet making videos here, but since it's Chinese New Year I thought that this look at the making of a Lion head for a Chinese Lion Dance was...
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...
spotted this video from the latest version of the long-running Taiwanese puppet series Pili (see previous post) over on Kelvin Kao's blog. As per usual, it's a mind-bending mix of computer animation, slick editing, and traditional Chinese hand...
Zhang Bao-Pin creates stunning opening sequences for Pili, the popular martial-arts themed puppet show in Taiwan. This is the stunning new opening sequence for the new season of Pili, a martial arts themed puppet show that is insanely popular in Taiwan. According to Kelvin, this sequence was directed by Zhang Bao-Pin, who also created that...
Chinese martial arts and puppetry can make an incredible combination. One of the reasons that I always enjoy reading Kelvin Kao’s Puppet Kaos Blog because he often writes about Chinese and Taiwanese puppetry, which I’ve loved ever since spent a couple weeks puppeteering in Taiwan in the late `90s. Yesterday he shared a mind-bendingly awesome...
A great example of hand shadow puppetry, recorded in China earlier this year. This is a short clip of a Chinese puppeteer performing some great hand shadows. Take a look, it’s some amazingly fluid...
Chinese Shadow Puppetry, recently performed in Wuzhen, China near Shanghai. Here’s a great example of Chinese Shadow Puppetry. Even more interestingly, the same show was shot twice so you can also take a look behind the scenes and see how it’s performed. Neat...
Wulin Warriors – the English language version of Taiwan’s popular Pili series – has returned with episodes premiering on an AOL web site geared to kids. AOL’s PR department dropped me a line yesterday to say that Wulin Warriors has been launched on AOL’s KOL site. Wulin is an English language adaptation of one of...
Wulin Warriors debuts on Cartoon Network Feb. 4th, but you can watch two episodes online now. Wulin Warriors (see previous post) – Cartoon Network’s retitled, English version of Thunderforce (or PiLi Puppet Theatre) – finally debuts Saturday, February 4th at 8:00pm as part of CN’s Toonami block, but you don’t have to wait that long...
Three traditional glove puppets perform a very untraditional routine on a Taiwanese TV show. This is…well, I don’t actually know what this is supposed to be, but it looks like a clip of three glove puppets performing on a Taiwanese TV show. One of them beats a Pikachu doll to death with a stick, the...
