Puppetry students at the University of Hawaii re-create The Evolution of Dance with a puppet.
I love Bunraku-style puppetry, so I really enjoyed seeing A Study of Movement (The Evolution of Dance), a final project for a puppetry class at the University of Hawaii inspired by the famous YouTube viral video.
Nike’s MVPuppets campaign has been a huge hit with basketball fans.
Nike’s MVPuppets campaign (see previous posts here and here) keeps rolling right along. I think the bigger a fan of the NBA you are, the more you can appreciate these. The storyline in the ads has been following along with the NBA playoffs; in one [...]
Is NBC’s 30 Rock based on The Muppet Show?
Brian Lynch – screenwriter of the unproduced and literally-titled The Next Muppet Movie – has written a hilarious post on his blog alleging that the NBC comedy 30 Rock is a rip off of The Muppet Show. Although he’s writing with his tongue firmly in his cheek, [...]
College Humour channels The Muppet Show while spoofing a classic scene from The Little Mermaid.
College Humour sends up The Little Mermaid in Kiss The Girl, a hilarious musical parody that’s mildly NSFW and entirely inappropriate children. The puppets in the video were designed and built by James Wojtal, who also performed in the video along [...]
Nike’s “Most Valuable Puppets” ad campaign features puppets of basketball stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.
The rest of the ads for the previously-blogged “Most Valuable Puppets” Nike campaign featuring puppets of NBA stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are now online. Click “Read More” to watch `em all below…
Finally, here’s a video of the Kobe [...]
Four puppets have a “little” problem in this video originally created for the 2004 Eurovision contest
Abba: Our Last Video features “4 small puppets who look very much like the original `70s Swedish supergroup ABBA are try to get a recording contract in Stockholm, Sweden 1974,” and with a description like that, honestly, what more do [...]
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre creates madcap puppet fun two socks at a time.
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre might not be top-notch puppetry on a purely technical level, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a funnier, more consistently imaginative (or prolific) series of puppet videos out there. Created by Kev F Sutherland, the videos have [...]
Puppets of NBA stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant appear in a new Nike commercial.
The web has been buzzing for the past day or so with talk about the new Nike ad that features puppets of basketball stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. It’s always neat to see a commercial like this resonate with people [...]
Jay Tyson has created a step-by-step tutorials demonstrating how he built a caricature puppet of David Tennant.
Jay Tyson built a great-looking puppet of David Tennant (the actor who pays The 10th Doctor in the long-running sci-fi series Dr. Who) for his puppet web series 99 Acre Wood. Jay is an incredibly talented puppet builder and [...]
Action figures are used as puppets in Star Wars in 3 Minutes.
I’ve written about the phenomenon of “Action Figure Videos” before (previously posted examples include I’m A Marvel / I’m A DC, The Eyes of Darth Tater and The Eye of the Tiger), which I find really interesting because they’re a form of found object [...]
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