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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Apologies for a lack of recent updates; as so often is the case, life and work conspired to keep me preoccupied last week, but here's a look at what was happening while I wasn't...
Jim Henson and Frank Oz on the set of an Orson Wells TV pilot. Orson Welles was well-known as a Muppet fan. He famously appears in a cameo at the end of The Muppet Movie and was once quoted saying “Sesame Street is the greatest thing that ever happened to television.” I had no idea...
Dogg the Bounty Hunter is one of several reality TV stars given the puppet spoof treatment in Bunraker. Bunraker is a new puppet comedy concept built around a Puppet-host named Fez Holden who introduces faux reality show clips featuring puppet “stars” like Jo “Supernanny” Frost, Chris Angel and Dogg the Bounty Hunter. It’s being envisioned...
Tinseltown is a new puppet sitcom from the Jim Henson Company about a gay Hollywood couple. Tinseltown (see previous post) is a new TV project from the Jim Henson Company. It’s a puppet sitcom built around a homosexual couple – Bobby Vegan (a pig) and Samson Knight (a bull) – who they juggle work, relationships...
The full-length pilot/demo for a proposed Canadian series called Spadasheo is available to watch on YouTube. Spadasheo was a proposed Canadian puppet series for kids. A pilot/demo video for the show was shot back in 2001 and featured a great crew of twentysomething Canadian puppeteers including Jay Williams (see previous post), Mike Artelle, Kanja Chen...
Squirt is just one of many great-looking puppet characters that inhabits The Big Magic Book. The full pilot for The Big Magic Book (see previous post) is now available to watch online. There are a lot of very talented people behind this project, including a few names that should be familiar to PuppetVision readers; the...
Squirt is just one of the many characters featured in the new trailer for the proposed children’s series The Big Magic Book. A trailer for The Big Magic Book is available on YouTube. As I mentioned in my last post about this project, there are some really talented people involved in this and it looks...
The animated opening of in-the-works pilot The Big Magic Book looks promising.The Big Magic Book (see previous post) is a pilot for a new children’s puppet series that’s been in the works for awhile. The amazing Nate Patcheco – an animator who also happens to be a very talented puppet builder – has been putting...
Rumour has it that a new Muppet series is in development. Muppet fan sites have been buzzing recently about a possible new Muppet series that is being developed by Disney. According to the reports, something called The 2007 Muppet Presentation Pilot was recently shot as a spec pilot (spec pilots are not commissioned by a...
Puppet Planet is a pilot for a new Travel Channel puppet series. Last month the Travel Channel aired the pilot episode of Puppet Planet (not to be confused with John Kennedy’s great puppet making book), a new travel series hosted by three puppet characters. I haven’t seen the full episode yet, but a short clip...
Yesterday ABC officially announced that they have ordered a script and five episode outlines for America’s Next Muppet, a new “reality” TV show starring the Muppets. In keeping with the Muppets’ long held tradition of sending up pop culture, the proposed show would riff off reality shows like American Idol and America’s Next Top Model,...
