I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
Online retailer Zappos.com - who are renowned for their amazing custom service - started an ad campaign earlier this year that uses actual customer calls reenacted with puppets....
As a rule I don’t generally post about puppet building workshops here, but this one is taking place a mere 20 meteres or so from where I happen to typing this, so I’ll consider it fair game. If you’re in or near Toronto this weekend, Unraku is hosting a marionette making workshop with Kelly Kirkham...
This three part installment of Steve Johnson's Rubber Rules series on YouTube (see previous post) offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the creation of one of the most iconic puppet characters of the 1980s -...
ABC News pays a visit to The Puppet Kitchen in New York, home of Eric Wright, Emily Decola and Michael...
In this video installment of the Henson.com Podcast from earlier this year, the Creature Shop's Head of Puppet Fabrication, Julie Zobel, explains the process of restoring several Skeksis...
Meet The Feebles is a black comedy cult-classic puppet film directed by Peter Jackson (yes, that Peter Jackson) way back in 1989 that's become well known in recent years thanks to the success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I recently discovered the Meet The Feebles "making of" documentary on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...