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Technicolor’s Atomic Puppet
…Puppet follows the exploits of 11 year old Joey Felt and his superhero sidekick Atomic Puppet (a magical puppet that comes to life every time Joey puts it onto his… |
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The Harry Potter Puppet Pals – Now With Shiny New Website!!
A strange, yet hilarious Flash series of Harry Potter-inspired cartoons called the Harry Potter Puppet Pals has recently moved to its own domain, consolidating all Puppet Pals goodness into one… |
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"…and then there's the other kind!" More Shadow Puppet delights…
Michel Gagné, ambitiously continuing his Insanely Twisted Puppet Show pet project, has released a new teaser for the series, first reported about by Animated News on October 30th. This time… |
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Interview: Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and Team America puppet masters, the Chiodo Brothers
IGN FilmForce has another exclusive behind-the-scenes video, featuring interviews with Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and the Team America puppet masters, the Chiodo Brothers. Team America: World Police will open in… |
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Michel Gagné brings us the Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppet Show!
…Twisted Shadow Puppet Show, Gagné plans to bring the shorts to life using “a combination of softwares such as Flash, After Effects, Photoshop, Maya as well as traditional hand drawn… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…The Puppetoon Movie, and three years after the release of the similarly positively reviewed The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 disc, producer Arnold Leibovit is back to present another collection of… |
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Death of a puppet lady, Jane Henson
…his career in the years following his death, through the Jim Henson Legacy. Jane remained a prominent fixture in the puppeteering community. In that regard: “Life is like a movie,… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…“Madcap Models,” but the Puppetoon name still appeared in the credits. Legends such as Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen worked on Puppetoons at one point or another, but it was… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…as Madcap Models, or more commonly Puppetoons. A number of those shorts were shown in the compilation feature The Puppetoon Movie (1987), a film that also utilized new bridging sequences… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…script, but there’s no denying the awesome set ups and attention to detail (puppets using puppets, the astonishing replication of Times Square, Lisa’s Indiana Jones-styled dress, the Star Wars cantina,… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…simple puppet show was a complex endeavor, with Clampett employing a number of writers, musicians, technicians, and performers. Time For Beany may not have had the sophistication of puppetry that… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…the bridging sequences in the first Puppetoon feature. (Standard definition.) The Puppetoon Movie Montage (10:51) is actually a montage of fascinating rare photos of George Pal, spotlighting the creaton of… |
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Pinchcliffe races home: Caprino Studios Collection on DVD!
Often called the “Walt Disney of Norway” (though his puppet and stop-motion techniques are probably more akin to Ray Harryhausen’s fairy-tales or the Rankin/Bass specials of the 1950s and 60s),… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
Often called the “Walt Disney of Norway” (though his puppet and stop-motion techniques are probably more akin to Ray Harryhausen’s fairy-tales or the Rankin/Bass specials of the 1950s and 60s),… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…own cohesion. AV: Can you tell me about the technique you developed for the puppet eyes effect, which is a first in the field of animation? MS: We’ve done puppet… |
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Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced
Often called the “Walt Disney of Norway” (though his puppet and stop-motion techniques are probably more akin to Ray Harryhausen’s fairy-tales or the Rankin/Bass specials of the 1950s and 60s),… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…to visit in Montgomery. Naturally, I’m such a pack rat, I still have all those puppets, so if someone out there wants a puppet TV commercial, just ask. Puppetry is… |
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The return of Puppetoons
…Pal • The Puppetoon Movie Speedy Alka-Seltzer (Miles Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution) • The Puppetoon Movie Montage • Full Production and Donor Credits • Includes 6-Panel Color Booklet, Liner Notes by… |
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Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 now available for a reduced price at Amazon.com and Puppetoon.net
The acclaimed second volume of restored Technicolor George Pal Oscar-winning Puppetoons are available now at reduced prices on both Amazon and Puppetoon.net. Perfect for holiday gift-giving, this high-definition Blu-ray and… |
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Thunderbirds International Rescue Edition Giftset
…but acknowledge that the movie is too slow in spots), influences on puppet design (Sean Connery and Lorne Greene figure prominently), Stanley Kubrick and the 2001 connection, the puppet wires,… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete First Season
…the show ended. On this set, the first disc goes for two more episodes.) Switched: The Titans receive a mysterious package containing puppet versions of themselves. The Puppet King then… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…puppet of Pinocchio on the left which was the original puppet used for animation, for the character of Pinocchio. You know that they found him behind a wall? These large-scale… |
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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…and literally put a puppet of a turtle on his right hand and a puppet of a raccoon on his left hand and started talking as the characters. And I… |
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D23 Expo 2024 Exclusive
…Miss Piggy-realted props that were present on stage. Showcased were a bicycle from The Great Muppet Caper, the original Foo-Foo puppet, the engagement ring from Muppets Most Wanted, the tribal… |
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Stop-motion gets animated in NYC tonight!
…in New York City tonight, April 29 at 7pm. Complete details can be read here: Puppet Masters of the Macabre: A Night of Spooky Stop-Motion Animation NYC — Thursday, April… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…of the movie, and their fabrication, maintenance and manipulation on set, are revealed in The Puppet Makers and Still Life (Puppet Animation), from initial character designs, sculpting and moulding, to… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…Ariel. Benson then welcomed all of the attendees and provided a brief introduction. She was then interrupted by a puppet Sebastian, speaking to Benson as if she were her character…. |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…And Becky Van Cleve was our head of puppets, and she created a slew of puppets, so many puppets, from Santa Claus, to the elves, to the Klepts, and SAMTU,… |
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The Muppets
…on The Ed Sullivan Show, where his combination of man and puppet first got his Muppets noticed. Other work followed – most famously providing existing and new characters to co-populate… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…their early childhood. Trnka came from the deep puppet theatre tradition of Central Europe. His sense of form and style in depicting three-dimensional human characters – as puppets – was… |