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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

Apologies if this has already been posted.

Done by a bunch of French artists as a tribute to the late Jim Henson.

Muppet-ish frog-ish things...

...hard to describe, really.

Muppets Over Time

Posted by foundling (Member # 6348) on :

That was disturbing. Like "City of Lost Children" meets "The Muppet Show"...

Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :

heh...no wonder I liked it so much. [Smile]

Was that all digital?

Posted by Wonder Dog (Member # 5691) on :

Yah, that was all digital. Pretty cool huh? A lot of 3d artists talk about acting skills and such, but I'm of the opinion that digital animation owes more to puppetry than acting - digital carachters are like complex prosthesis/puppets for an animator to control in every detail. Dig it.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

As I thought when a link was posted elsewhere (that is, on another forum) -- seriously freaky.

But kinda cool.

[ March 14, 2005, 02:18 AM: Message edited by: rivka ]

Posted by mimsies (Member # 7418) on :

wow, that was sufficiently creepy...

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

[Eek!]

Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :

Eraserhead just doesn't seem that strange now.

Posted by Zeugma (Member # 6636) on :

Wow. I liked it a lot. I'd like to see it in a larger format.

Definitely creepy, though. I'm not sure I'm okay with doing this to a real person so recently dead.

Very nice, though. The music is a perfect fit.

As far as animation being puppetry or acting... especially in stop-motion and computer animation, yes, the controls are very much like a puppeteers. However, without the ability to ACT, what exactly is the animator going to have the "puppet" do? Move around from point A to point B? Making a lifeless character, be it clay or drawings or cotton batting or pixels, come to life is quite a delicate art, and in my opinion, what you choose to DO with the character is far more important that what you know about the controls.

[Wink]

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

Um. . . Professor X has been assassinated by frogs! Now they're using his body to pass subliminal messages of death and cultural abandonment to the rest of the X-community!

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

wow that was freaky, especially when you see his hands on puppeteer wands.

And I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought of Patric Stewart LOL

[ March 14, 2005, 11:20 AM: Message edited by: Goody Scrivener ]