There are so many inspiring examples of puppetfilm art that incorporate aspects of analogue and digital effects with live action puppetry, as well as examples of animation that could be re-interpreted in live action puppetry... this is just a smattering...!
Ghost Algebra by Janie Geiser uses a blend of 2D puppetry, collage, cut outs, and digital layering. I find this very cool and inspiring, particularly as it is surprisingly feasible and simple.
The only effect apparent in this ad is the use of the music box teeth to provide the mechanics used to create the animation. The simplicity is sweet, and I like the fact that the puppetry is embraced and that there is no rod removal. There's a chance that it's a lot more produced than it looks, but it might really just be this simple. Sorry; it's an ad for an app. See, you puppetientists could be getting paid to do this stuff!
This is a series of excerpts from Miwa Matreyek's Myth and Infrastructure, a performative combination of animation, puppetry, projection, and shadow performance which I find stunning.
This lovely and creepy greenscreen film by Raymond Salvatore Harmon uses only a few extremely rough-hewn puppets, and some footage of passing scenery to illustrate Göethe's poem Der Erlkönig. You could make this film in three days, from beginning to end:
- Day one: make the super simple puppets
- Day two am: shoot the puppets on greenscreen
- pm: shoot moving footage out a car window
- Day three: import, key, cut, and colour correct your footage. Add titles and audio.
- Day four: upload to Youtube and submit to festivals
- Repeat until rich.
Der Erlkönig from Raymond Salvatore Harmon on Vimeo.
Analogue puppetry combines with digital greenscreen technology in the mesmerizing and unsettling Solopsist from Andrew Huang:
SOLIPSIST from Andrew Huang on Vimeo.
Learning to Breathe Underwater is an awesome performance using puppets, shadows, Zoetropes and other interesting technology from Sobey Award finalist Daniel Barrow (warning: stylized puppet sex: slightly beyond PG, and depending on your employer, maybe NSFW):
For me, effects also includes cool ideas -- the simpler and more transparent the mechanation, the more I like the effect -- must be the residue of having spent 20 years in the California special effects industry. I like things janky. Although this is technically more animation than puppetry, there is definitely cross-over in Tim Wheatley's The Cyclotrope, a nice example of this cool new genre of bicycle wheel animation:
Have fun! Dream big and make it simple at the same time!
Until next time...
puppetz rule
The Cyclotrope from tim Wheatley on Vimeo.
Have fun! Dream big and make it simple at the same time!
Until next time...
puppetz rule
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