I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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...
This is the last post of the decade and I think it's a good one...a music video of the Portland Cello Project performing Gideon Freudmann's "Denmark"....
Osamu Tezuka famously created Astro Boy. Less well known is his work in live action, specifically the 1960s Japanese puppet sci-fi series Galaxy Boy...
Thanks to an incredible number of submissions from all of you wonderful readers and being busy with a few different film projects in recent weeks, I've once again fallen hopelessly behind with interesting things from world of puppet film and video. So once again, here's a quick weekend puppet catch...
This is the music video for singer/song writer Chris Garneau’s latest single Dirty Night Clowns. Directed by Ryan Gibeau, it features marionettes by Jeremy Selenfriend, Tom Newby and James Wojtal. The puppeteers who worked on the video were Jamie Elizabeth Moore and Mike Leach of Puppetworks and James Wojtal. Via James. 11/10/10 Update: There is...
I've had precious little time to post the last few days due to Halloween preparations, so here's a quick run down of spooky/scary things I didn't get to share with you this...
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...
This is a new ad for Mayflower, a moving and storage company in the United States. While I do really like this ad conceptually, it might seem very familiar to you...and that's because it...
My first professional puppetry job was with Famous PEOPLE Players (FPP) back in the mid-to-late `90s. A big part of their act has always been using Bunraku-style black light puppetry to pay homage to famous artists (hence the name “Famous PEOPLE Players”) and they do puppets of celebrities just about as well as anyone out...
Four puppets have a “little” problem in this video originally created for the 2004 Eurovision contest Abba: Our Last Video features “4 small puppets who look very much like the original `70s Swedish supergroup ABBA are try to get a recording contract in Stockholm, Sweden 1974,” and with a description like that, honestly, what more...
Burger King Germany’s “99ers” campaign features marionettes. This is a new commercial for Burger King in Germany that features marionettes. The puppets in the ad were built by Hornet Inc. and performed by James Godwin, Tim Lagasse and Steve...
Life in Motion and Simple Gifts show off the incredible work of the Cashore Marionettes. For a long time I didn’t care much for marionettes. It wasn’t that I ever thought there was anything wrong with string puppets per se, it was just that I’ve always been a big fan of very precise, technical and...