can we as a society make puppetry cool again. like lets make it trendy. Mainstream. more people should get into doing it and more people should appreciate it. puppetry requires craftsmanship and charisma and physical acting and vocal performance!! you can’t get that from ai. it has a charm to it that neither 2D nor cg animation has. Have you ever watched a puppetry performance and realized you were genuinely convinced that the puppet was getting into bed or eating something or giving a hug that you wholly forgot there was some guy’s arm in there.
isn’t it lovely. to make a funny little guy to tell stories with. is that not so human of us. it’s such a lovely art form. I love you puppets I love you muppets I love you marionettes I love you handmade sock puppets I love you paper bags with googley eyes I love you armatures I love you I love you I love you!!!!!
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Not seeing many mention this, but I want to point something very important out about the new FNAF trailer especially, in case you haven't noticed...
You see these guys? This is not cgi. These are actually fully-created animatronics developed by the crew at Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
These things were purposefully designed to look as close as possible to their video game versions, and to be as absolutely unsettling as the well-known 90s animatronic versions of Chuck E. Cheese and the Rock-afire Explosion.
Clearly, they pulled this off phenomenally well for this film!
These designs are intricate while also staying very close to the original character designs seen in the games, which proves how dedicated the team behind this movie really is about making a true-to-itself FNAF film! Seeing the quality on display here in just this first official trailer gives me some very high hopes for what we'll get to see in the movie once it comes out this October!
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Starkid and Puppets: A Legacy
Now if you're like me, you're probably obsessed with starkids penchant for puppetry
And in light of recent news...
It's safe to say I've been screaming, crying, throwing up thinking about it alot
So lets take a journey through all their Puppets shall we!
We start where all good stories start AVPM. Who have the Dragon puppet
Next, MAMD has no puppet's
And AVPS has sorty and scarfy! (<3)
Now obviously... Starship, with an incredible amount of puppetry
Bug and buggette
Roach and some other backround Puppets (including mosquito's)
And (in my opinion) starkids most incredible puppet to date, Pincer!
Holy Musical B@tman has none
AVPSY does have a puppet! They have the basilisk puppet (technically scarfy and sorty again)
Twisted has two Puppets! The monkey
And the parrot
Neither Trail to Oregon or ANI have any Puppets unless you count Cornwallis
Firebringer has both trunkell
And snarl (with a size to rival pincer)
And you know what, let's count the duck
Tgwdlm has none
Black friday doesn't technically have any but I'm still going to put a picture of wiggly here because I just think you should look at him <3
And surprisingly, while nightmare time 1 has no puppets, nmt2 does!
The axe man
And the stupidly impressive (and rival for my fav) Otho
Lastly Nerdy Prudes Must Die, regrettably, has no puppets
That's a total of 20 different puppets (lmk if I miscounted starship). With an average of 1.3 puppets per musical/project!
Sorry this is so long lol
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Process of making the River Spirit from The Moonlit Princess. ๋࣭ ⭑☽︎⋆。˚
When working on an art piece, sometimes it's easy to become discouraged in the beginning, because many times we focus on the end product instead of what it takes to get there. Working on puppets is time intensive & takes many different steps. It teaches you to be present and simply enjoy the journey; the destination is the culmination of that.
It's humbling but also rewarding. That's what I love about puppetry.
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