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04 Jan 2011 An Even More Incredible Hulk

This is a teaser for an upcoming DVD called An Even More Incredible Hulk from Steve Johnson's Eon Entertainment that promises "a stunning look at a 100% animatronic Hulk" that was developed, but never used for Ang Lee’s 2003 Incredible Hulk...

27 Nov 2010 Weekend Puppet Catch-Up

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...

23 Nov 2010 Zappos.com Puppet Commercials

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....

18 Nov 2010

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...

12 Nov 2010 The Making of Slimer

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 -...

05 Aug 2010 Restoring the Skeksis

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...

27 Mar 2010 Sex, Drugs and Soft Toys: Making Meeting The Feebles

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...

02 Jun 2009

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...

31 May 2009

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...

06 May 2009

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...

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