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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Ventriloquist Terry Fator and Winston the Impersonating Turtle. Terry Fator – the amazingly talented Ventriloquist/impressionist who won the reality TV series/talent show America’s Got Talent last year (see previous post) – has just signed a deal that’s reportedly worth $100 million over the next five years. Terry will be performing nightly at The Mirage Casino...
M dot Strange turned his back on Hollywood deals and leverages the power of YouTube and the internet to make his films, his way. M dot Strange is a one-of-a-kind filmmaker who seems to be mastering the art of successful self-distribution. He got lots of offers to distribute his film We Are The Strange after...
You don’t need a million fans to make a living as an artist, just one thousand “true” ones. What could you do with just 1,000 “True Fans”? According to Kevin Kelly, you could make a living doing just about whatever you want. Kevin’s theory – which has been in wide circulation on the web since...
Paul Hokanson (see previous post) has written a great blog post about why aspiring puppeteers should focus on the web rather than TV. Here’s an excerpt: “I would love to see another Muppet Show type of thing broadcast to the masses, but I don’t think “prime time” is the best way to go about this...
Spinmaster Toys developed the popular new Bakugan toys and share seven of their keys to success. You may not have heard of it yet, but the next big thing in the world of toys is called Bakugan, a new game played with cards and magnetic spring-loaded marbles that open and depict different characters. The game...
UK company Virtual Puppet creates digital characters like this one seen above. Virtual Puppet, a UK company that “specializes in motion capture technologies and involves itself with the production of advertising, face to face experiential marketing and performance for theatre and live interactive television,” was featured this past weekend on the British edition of Dragon’s...
As most people know, film and television production in the United States is slowly grinding to a halt because The Writers Guild of America went on strike this week. The main reason for the walkout (and kudos to the WGA for having the guts to stand on their principles and stage a real strike, unlike...
An article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday talked about how niche web shows are starting to attract sponsors. Some of the shows mentioned in the article are attracting decent sponsorship with relatively small, but loyal audiences of just 10,000 to 20,000 viewers. The key to getting sponsorship seems to be consistency and quality. According...
Transylvania TV and a cast of ghoulish characters led by Count LeShoc are coming to TVs near Minnesota soon. One upcoming puppetry project I am really looking forward to is Transylvania TV or “TVTV” from Gordon Smuder (see previous post). TVTV looks great with nice puppets and amazingly detailed props and sets (not surprising since...
PuppetBuilding.com is starting to explode, with hundreds and (increasingly) thousands of new visitors everyday, which is great news except that as traffic goes up so do the costs associated with running the site. So to help offset the site’s hosting bill and pay for several new features that are on the way advertising is now...
Got some puppets to sell? Looking for a particular type of puppet? Try the new puppet classified ads on PuppetBuilding.com. They’re totally free and best of all automated so there’s no waiting for ads to be manually added to the site. To publish an ad just register with PuppetBuilding.com, type in your ad, upload a...
Build puppets? Looking for puppets? Try the new Puppet Builder Directory at PuppetBuilding.com. It’s a totally free service designed to help puppet builders and people looking for puppets find each other. If you’re searching for a puppet builder or places to buy puppets you can browse the categories or search for someone close to where...
