Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore was mostly panned by critics and got buried at the weekend box office, but it features some of the most sophisticated animatronic puppetry ever seen on film and for that reason alone I think it’s worth checking out.
Over at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, Stephen Worth has a short post about animating robots. Stephen mentions how the job description of an animator is rapidly changing and muses about the possibility of animators being hired to “animate” robots, which sounds suspiciously similar to what a puppeteer does. Although robots and automata aren’t generally considered [...]
It’s hard to believe, but handmade puppet films just might be the next big thing.
This story sketch was drawn by legendary animator Ub Iwerks during the production of the very first Mickey Mouse cartoon. Mark Sonntag posted these fantastic storyboard pages from Plane Crazy (the very first Mickey Mouse cartoon ever made) on his Tag Toonz blog about a week ago. They are really good, especially considering the crude [...]
Disney Channel superstar Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) sings with the Electric Mayhem on Studio DC: Almost Live. I didn’t catch this past weekend’s Studio DC: Almost Live!, but it’s the latest component of Disney’s strategy to reintroduce the Muppets and make them culturally relevant again (see previous post). As if to remove any doubt that [...]
I’ve had an insanely busy week, hence the lack of updates. To make up for it here’s a quick run down of recent news and developments from around the puppet interwebs: Potter Puppet Pals have been nominated for a YouTube Award in the comedy category for their video The Mysterious Ticking Noise. You can show [...]
Julie Andrews sings with the first animatronic motion picture puppet – a robin. Quick question…what’s the very first motion picture ever to feature an animatronic puppet? The Dark Crystal? Nope. The Empire Strikes Back? Guess again. Believe it or not, the answer is actually Mary Poppins! Walt Disney of course pioneered the field of animatronics [...]
Puppeteer Lexy Fridell poses with Dory, her puppet alter ego in Finding Nemo: The Musical at Disney World. If you like puppetry – and once again I ask, what are you doing reading this blog if you don’t? – you have got to drop what you’re doing and watch this terrific video about the Finding [...]
Bunsen and Beaker pay a visit to Pixar earlier this week. The Muppet Mobile Lab (see previous post) rolled in to Pixar for a visit on Tuesday and there’s a photoset with pics available at Flickr as well as video from the visit on Blip.tv. It looks like Steve Whitmire was there performing Kermit too. [...]
Videos of test runs for Disney’s Muppet Mobile Labs have surfaced on the web. Following up on yesterday’s post about the new Muppet Mobile Labs at Disney’s California Adventure theme park, three different videos of Bunsen and Beaker in action have surfaced. You can find one each at The Disney Blog, The Muppet Newsflash and [...]
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