Monday, December 8, 2008
Puppet me up
I love puppetry. I have several puppets at home that I use to entertain my kids. It is a lot of fun. After animating all day it is fun to do something that is realtime.
So if your in love with muppets like I am and your looking for something not about the alphabet then you have to check out Puppet up. This is a troupe of puppeteers from Henson company that merged “who’s line is it anyways” with puppets. The live show allows the action to be seen two different ways. First is that you can see the puppeteers, then second if you watch the screens above them you see it like you would on tv. I think this is soo brilliant. They have a lot of videos up on youtube but I have not seen the live show yet.
Also since we are talking puppets, John Ford fellow animator turned me on to treehouse studios. They are a group of animators over at bluesky that are trying there hand at puppeteering. I have only seen a couple of clips but I really like what I see.