PuppetVision Archives: rod puppets
09 May
2012
The Stan Winston School of Character Arts founded by veterans of the Stan Winston Studio has been regularly posting rare and never-before-seen footage from Legacy Effect's work, including this latest video of their crew rehearsing with raptor puppets for The Lost World: Jurassic Park...
17 Apr
2012
A fun music video for the French band No Mad. Directed by Fabien Daphy and featuring puppetry by Franck...
11 Apr
2012
Making and researching my documentary PuppetVision: The Movie I've been constantly amazed by just how many artists are doing remarkable work in many of the not-so-well-known corners of the world. One of those companies is Opera in...
06 Apr
2012
I think that Dinosaurs at the Office from Seabeast Puppetry has a lot of potential. If it's done right, a mundane series staring a couple of those toy Dinosaur "Chompers" rod puppets might just be a comedy gold...
15 Dec
2011
For years I've been waiting for someone to design a better version of those "grabber" animal head puppets that are sold at theme parks and discount stores all over the world. Well, it looks like Brent Geppert has gone and done...
25 Nov
2011
Kevin McTurk sent me this trailer for his film The Narrative of Victor Karloch, which is the latest film commissioned by Heather Henson for her Handmade Puppet Dreams series. I can't wait to see the entire...
02 Aug
2011
Last week we took a quick look at WarSheep and An Attic Full of Puppets, two puppetry projects that are looking for support via crowdfunding. I wanted to follow those up with Cicada Princess, a beautiful looking film that’s currently in production thanks to a very successful fundraising campaign on Kickstarter. Cicada Princess is actually...
18 Jul
2011
I saw The Execution of Margot Rumebe last week and fell in love with it. It was made by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop in collaboration with filmmaker Simon Dekker and Michael Green of Calgary, Alberta's acclaimed One Yellow Rabbit Theatre....
07 Jul
2011
Ballography is a web series on Gameslam.com that's produced by Adam and David Rudman's Spiffy Pictures. The series is a spoof of Biography, with each episode a famous baseball from MLB history ranting about their glory....
09 May
2011
I love this simple. but very fun digital short by Mathieu Rene, who is a mad puppet...
16 Mar
2011
Remember Kooky's Return (Kuky Se Vrascí) the beautiful-looking Czech puppet film by Jan Svěrák that was posted on PuppetVision back in January? Due to popular demand a "home-made" English dubbed version of the film has been...
18 Jan
2011
This is a few weeks late for Christmas perhaps, but I really liked this behind-the-scenes video for The Nativity Story, which premiered at the Orlando Puppet Festival a few months...