Monday, December 8, 2008

Puppet me up

Posted by: jormajorma // Category: Uncategorized // 12:21 pm

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.

puppet up

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.

tree house studios

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4 Comments


  1. bunyip
    Comment // December 10th, 2008 // 4:14 pm edit

    Hello Jorma,

    I am a stopmotion animator and puppeteer. There is lots of crossover between the two disciplines particularly how you learn to exaggerate a pose to make it show to the audience and creating a good silhouette.

    I also like the imediate feedback in puppetry.

    Cheers
    Neil


  2. jormajorma
    Comment // December 11th, 2008 // 11:26 am edit

    Neil,

    Thanks for the insight on the relationship between stopmotion and puppeteering. Stopmotion is one area that I have really no experience. That seems like the hardest of animation disciplines. I really liked your blog and your films you have posted. I can’t imagine the time it took to create them. I look forward to learning more about stopmotion from your blog. Who knows maybe I will give it a try:-)

    cheers,
    Jorma


  3. bunyip
    Comment // December 11th, 2008 // 6:21 pm edit

    Give it a try, Its a real buzz. When you are animating the puppet its like a real performance and seeing that inanimate object spring to life is awesome!
    You also feel the puppet and immerse yourself in their world.

    Of course when you bump the camera or the puppet falls over its a pain in the ass. Thats when you wish you were a computer animator!


  4. jormajorma
    Comment // December 16th, 2008 // 9:17 am edit

    funny

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