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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The Stan Winston School of Character Arts founded by veterans of the Stan Winston Studio has been regularly posting rare and never-before-seen footage from Legacy Effect's work, including this latest video of their crew rehearsing with raptor puppets for The Lost World: Jurassic Park...
From the Stan Winston School of Character Arts comes this nice behind-the-scenes look at the robots built by Legacy Effects for Real...
Following up on last week's footage of a T-Rex rehearsal, here's another great behind-the-scenes look at the animatronic dinosaurs of Jurassic Park....
Some classic rehearsal footage from Jurassic Park...puppeteers from Stan Winston's studio (now Legacy Effects) "warm up" with their life-sized Tyrannosaurus Rex animatronic puppet...
This is clever ad for U.S. hamburger chain Carl's Jr. about a robot who comes home to discover that he can't eat their new chicken...
Apparently, Boost Mobile has a bit of a thing for puppets...
Geico - famous for it's long-running ad campaign featuring a talking gecko - has been busy adding new animals to its menagerie, including woodchucks, an octopus and a pig (above)....
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...
Nike’s “Most Valuable Puppets” ad campaign features puppets of basketball stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. The rest of the ads for the previously-blogged “Most Valuable Puppets” Nike campaign featuring puppets of NBA stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are now online. Click “Read More” to watch `em all below… Finally, here’s a video of...
Puppets of NBA stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant appear in a new Nike commercial. The web has been buzzing for the past day or so with talk about the new Nike ad that features puppets of basketball stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. It’s always neat to see a commercial like this resonate with...
Special effects master Stan Winston died Sunday night after a long battle with cancer. Wow, I just heard the awful news that Stan Winston passed away Sunday night at his home in Malibu after a long battle with cancer. He was 62 years old. Even if you don’t know Stan’s name, chances are you know...
VFX Blog has an interview with John Rosengrant of Stan Winston Studio about the animatronic creature effects the company created for the just-released Doom. Check it out...
