I’m really happy to announce today that I’m going to be offering a nine week, interactive online puppet building course, Puppet Building 101.
This is an intensive nine week course I’ll be offering via PuppetBuilding.com that is designed to take you step-by-step through the process of how you to build exactly the kinds of puppets you [...]
I was going to write something today about the recent surge in puppet building live online, but Dan beat me to it.
A lot of puppet builders are using services like ustream.tv, Justin.tv and BlogTV to broadcast their puppet building live to the world. Here’s a run down of the shows that are available:
You + Me [...]
Due to popular demand and after a few of the inevitable delays and hiccups, I’m happy to announce this morning that PuppetBuilding.com is back online!
I had to take the original site offline last year after it was hacked by spammers (due to a security flaw in the site’s software that has since been patched and [...]
Public voting has begun in the 2008 Project Puppet puppet building contest.
Voting has begun in this year’s Project Puppet puppet building contest. The theme this year is “2008: A Space Odyessy”. An international panel of puppet builders – Terry Angus, Jarrod Boutcher, Ed Christie, Phil Fletcher and James Wojtal – have taken twenty eight entries [...]
Ever wanted to own your own Muppet? Now you can!
This is kind of old news, but in case you haven’t already heard, FAO Schwartz in New York recently opened a Muppet Whatnot Workshop where visitors can make their very own Muppet Whatnot puppet. Tough Pigs’ Joe and Ryan recently paid FAO Schwartz a visit have [...]
Filmmaker Rob Schrab talks about his “drawless animation” technique on the 4 Minute Film School podcast.
Rob Schrab is the guest professor for this week’s installment of 4 Minute Film School on DIY filmmaking web site Indy Mogul. On the show Rob explains the puppetry/animation technique he calls “drawless animation” and demonstrates how he’s used it [...]
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 “making [...]
Happy New Year everybody!
Just in time for 2008, have a look at the new, improved PuppetBuilding.com. Not only does it look an awful lot nicer, but I’ve made a lot of changes behind-the-scenes that will make it a much, much more fun and useful place to visit in 2008. Subscribe to the PuppetBuilding.com RSS feed [...]
My Lil’ Zombie puppets were featured on Canada’s Space channel this past weekend.
My Lil’ Zombie is a puppet business that twin sisters and puppet and horror fans Jaimie and Jessica Craddock started in Toronto this past summer. They make and sell one-of-a-kind zombie puppets and were featured this weekend on Hypaspace, a weekly show about [...]
Posting has been a little thin here on PuppetVision this week (sorry!), but I have been posting over at PuppetBuilding.com, which is being updated once again after a two month hiatus. If you’re interested in puppet building check in there regularly for new stuff.
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