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Space: 1999: Season One
…see footage from some of Anderson’s shows, even including his ancient puppet cowboy drama Four Feather Falls. Anderson also handles an authentic Parker puppet from Thunderbirds, and discusses Fireball XL5… |
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Team America: World Police heading for NC-17 rating?
The {{link http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=5069 JoBlo movie site}} has a story up reporting that, as it currently stands, South Park‘s Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s new puppet-animated musical action farce Team America… |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…described, especially in the early days of CGI, as having a puppet-like appearance, the historical precedent is clearly stop-motion animation. While today’s computer wizards create virtual puppets to move in… |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
…puppets, they live on a real set, a stop-frame set is like a live action stage, just in miniature. You don’t have to re-draw the character each time like in… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…(2000) captured the illustrated line drawing style of the classic featurettes. One year later, the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood took on their oddest look yet, in the puppet… |
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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
…in 1989, I received the top-secret Doughboy “kit”, a little suitcase that contained one of the original stop-motion puppet bodies and heads. The body was made of an incredibly toxic… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…wooden puppet’s adventures through right and wrong as he attempts to make good in order to be granted his wish: to become a real, live boy… The Sweatbox Review: When… |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…like six puppets. Right from the start, we knew that we had some challenges, with a huge amount of background puppets. We actually had a separate team who worked on… |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
…and detritus that we felt would make cool, underwater buildings and “puppetized” them for our stop motion. Meaning, they were modified to have a puppet-like feel to them. AV: How… |
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ParaNorman
…to have found a natural bonding with such subject matter over the years, especially in recent times. George Pal’s Puppetoon series in the 1930s often featured a terrified character called… |
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UK TV animator Ivor Wood dies aged 72
…as The Magic Roundabout, to great success. It was through working with Danot that Ivor developed his skills in stop-frame puppet animation, a technique involving the use of fully jointed… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. I was given a Kermit puppet by Jim Henson and encouraged to make my own 8mm puppet films, which I still have. Moving… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Two
…of detail is amazing, with the textures of the puppets fully evident. I think a puppet builder could watch these discs and be to tell precisely what material was used… |
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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…much a costume that was being worn as it was a girl who brilliantly managed to develop a functioning puppet of Sadness from Inside Out in the vein of Jim… |
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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
…little suitcase that contained one of the original stop-motion puppet bodies and heads. The body was made of an incredibly toxic material so we made a whole new kit of… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut (HD DVD)
…move as it should over top the body. So, I do concede that there is still some of the “puppet” effect to seeing these CGI humans move, but I do… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…puppets for a children’s theater in Colorado, as well as for Die Hard: the Puppet Musical in New York – it would be cool to do some puppet stuff with… |
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Star Wars – The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions
…it came to the puppet-like depictions of its human characters. Personally, I thought the direct-to-video Barbie movies handled people better. But the best was yet to come! Over the course… |
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The Boxtrolls coming to Blu-Ray January 20th
…of The Boxtrolls discuss what it’s like to voice an animated puppet, what each actor brought to his/her role, whether their personalities were similar to their characters, and more. o… |
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2019 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…member Sonia Manzano (Maria), Senior Vice President of Sesame Workshop Content and Curriculum in Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, and puppeteers Eric Jacobson (Grover), Ryan Dillon (Elmo), and Matt Vogel (Big Bird/Count… |
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Pinocchio: Signature Edition Blu-ray announced
…Lucky Rabbit. Pinocchio tells the tale of wood-carver Geppetto’s beloved puppet who embarks on a thrilling quest — with faithful friend Jiminy Cricket — that tests his bravery, loyalty and… |
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Katherine Heigel the Newest Muppet Star, Plus No Muppet Song at Oscars?
…puppets. The Henson Company has been chasing around an idea about filming a puppet noir film, where humans and puppets inhabit the same world but the puppets are considered second… |
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Anomalisa
…for the moment when Stone and Lisa consummate their meeting, where the fairly abstract witnessing of puppet sex could be laughable or, worse, bring back memories of Team America‘s outrageous… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…and even had a customary British star narrator in John Hurt. The inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood then took on their oddest look yet, in the puppet performed The… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…as Clu, we’re given a typically dead-eyed and less expressive digital puppet that’s being driven by Bridges’ mo-capped performance. And less expressive is right: all young Bridges/Clu does is look… |
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VIEW Conference 2017: an interview with director Maria Elena Gutierrez
…and animators telling stories in VR. We also have comic book artists, photographers, and have had over the years sound designers, composers, scriptwriters, and puppet makers. AV: What is the… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…plus restored original mono soundtrack, Rated G, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: Walt Disney’s brilliant take on Carlo Collodi’s story about a little wooden puppet’s adventures through right and wrong as he… |
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Tom Hanks makes a wish in the new Pinocchio trailer
…of a wooden puppet who embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy. Tom Hanks stars as Geppetto, the wood carver who builds and treats Pinocchio (Benjamin Evan… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…of Zemeckis’ ImageMovers brand of motion-capture. In those efforts, the data was pretty much translated to the digital puppet, meaning very good pantomime actors had to be in place and… |
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Pinocchio comes to life in new trailer for live-action remake
…a wooden puppet who embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy. Tom Hanks stars as Geppetto, the wood carver who builds and treats Pinocchio (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth)… |
