I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille have taken their Kinect Shadow Puppet concept to the next level. Puppet Parade is an interactive Kinect installation that uses two Kinects to track the arm movements of children, enabling them to not only control on screen digital puppets, but also step in to a virtual environment and interact with...
Yoke created this very cool interactive display as a publicity stunt to help promote performances of Avenue Q at the Fredericia Theater in Denmark....
Luis Miguel Barbosa is doing some interesting digital puppetry experiments using Animata, an iPad and a couple of...
Tomorrow would have been the 75th birthday of Jim Henson. To help celebrate his life and career Google has teamed up with the Jim Henson Company. If you visit the Google Homepage tonight or tomorrow you’ll see a special “Google Doodle” featuring six digital puppets that you can perform using your mouse and keyboard. It’s...
Over at my Machin-X: Digital Puppetry blog, I did a post today about "facial puppetry" a really interesting and quickly emerging computer vision technique....
This is a fun little demo of a digital puppet that Seth Hunter is working on with puppeteer Dan Butterworth at the MIT Media Lab....
Students at Carnegie Mellon University have been experimenting with various forms of digital puppetry for years so it's not surprising that they're now busy dreaming up some pretty cool projects using the X-Box...
The more artists explore new frontiers in interactive art, the more I often mind myself wondering where exactly to draw the line between what is animation and what is puppetry, like this performance system by Chris...
Following up on Wednesday's post about digital puppetry using the Kinect, this "Augmented Shadow" project is another (albeit less conventional) example digital...
Back in November I wrote about those Kinect digital shadow puppets that went viral. Kinect hacking has come a long way in the few short months since then and the potential implications for digital puppetry is...
I'm really intrigued by the possibilities that Multi-touch devices like the iPad might offer puppeteers in the near future. Several developers are exploring exactly that and looking for ways to combine puppetry and interactive...
I’ve been interested in the possibilities of digital puppetry for a long time. I started a blog called Machin-X devoted to the subject back in 2005 and I’ve even experimented with my own digital puppetry system. The idea of digital puppets isn’t new; Jim Henson created Waldo C. Graphic – the first true digital puppet...