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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We Being Us is a new series of quirky videos on YouTube. I’m kind of digging We Being Us, a relatively new series of videos on YouTube. They’re very simple and have a quirky charm. So far the musical ones are my favourites, especially the descriptively titled Skiddyzoo Makes His Singing Debut. Go watch a...
Unconventional puppets like this guitar playing coat rack can be brought to life by puppeteers. Often in film and television puppeteers are called upon to create effects that you might not immediately think of as puppetry. A great example of this is Meaghan Smith’s If You Asked Me, which features a team of puppeteers led...
Desert Gold is the music video directing debut of puppeteer Rob Saunders. Rob Saunders (see previous post) has directed his first music video, Desert Gold, for the Norwegian band Maika. I love the rod puppetry in it; the puppets look very simple, but they’ve been staged and shot with some real cinematic flare that’s difficult...
John McCain sings soulfully in 100 Years To Win. There is about a month to go until the U.S. election and Peter Orr (better known online by his online nickname “Scary” Larry Wolf) built himself a John McCain puppet and put together a pitch-perfect music video/political spoof about McCain called 100 Years To Win. 14/10/08...
Ridin’ the Rails To Reno is a music video for Country Cricket by California’s Flexitoon Puppets. Flexitoon (see previous post) just finished a new music video for a country swing band called Country Cricket. It was designed and directed by Craig Marin and features puppetry by Olga Felgemacher. You can watch Ridin’ The Rails To...
The Canadian series Roll Play aims to get kids up off their couches. Roll Play (see previous post) is rolling in to its second season on Treehouse TV in Canada. The preschool series features a cast of irrepressible kids and black light puppet characters acting out movement from a mixture of stories and songs. The...
Hip Hoppers love to use puppets in their music videos (photo: A puppet of DJ IV from Keepin’ It Real With Universal Soul). As I’ve mentioned many times here before, there is an artistic connection between hip hop and puppetry that I can’t quite explain but I certainly do appreciate. Complex Blog has put together...
The Muppets star in a popular series of new viral videos on YouTube. If you needed any proof that the Muppets were still popular you needed to look no further than YouTube, where Muppet sketches have been proliferating for years. With such an obvious demand it’s been a mystery to many people (myself included) why...
Sam The Eagle and the Muppets have a musical salute to America on YouTube. Check out Sam The Eagle, The Swedish Chef, Beaker and more in a Muppet rendition of The Stars and Stripes Forever. Special thanks to B.J. for the...
Piece of Me, Piece of You makes use of grotesque zombie puppets and green screen puppetry. A Santa Monica studio called Three Legged Legs just finished a funky little music video/short film called Piece of Me, Piece of You that’s available to watch online along with a generous helping of behind-the-scenes goodies. The short features...
Björk’s new video Wanderlust combines live-action, stop motion, CG and puppetry. I’ve always liked Björk’s eccentric music videos, but her latest video Wanderlust has just become my all-time favourite. It’s an incredible mash-up of live-action, stop motion, CG and puppetry. They even shot a version of it in 3-D! Both the video and a behind-the-scenes...
The video for A Clean Shot by The Myriad – MTV’s “breakout band of the year” – was just released yesterday and draws some heavy inspiration from The Dark Crystal and other classic fantasy films. You can catch some “making of” footage on YouTube and there are a couple photos of the puppets from the...
