Recent content by Trekkie Monster

I've posted a few puppet cid's on YouTube, you can find them all at http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=bendurocher

I'm working on a project for the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary. I built 6 characters for the project and Matt Fichner and Noreen Young built two other characters. They are going to be used for some short video's on a kids boating saftey web site, as well as in photographson the site. I...

I did know that they are bunraku puppets, but it seems to me that the sloth and the turtle are full body costumes (a la Bear) It was apparent with the buraku other puppets where the performers hands went into the sleeves to operate the hands

I was wondering if anyone had any insight into how they do this show, atg first i thought it must be green screen, but then the back of puppets heads were seen, and where the invisable puppeteers should be, we could see other characters. Also, how are the sloth and turtle operated, I could see...

May I ask what it was for?

that was done with a green screen (Like described before) I would reccommend designing puppets that have a sleeve comming from the lower belly, and rodes on the arms and legs of the cast, that was you could have them walking on a fence, as well as singing.

I love that Rick Lyon portrait puppet, looks very much like him, congtatz!

Green screen always looks green screen, unless the lighting is identical in both situations, we wanted more of an earthy and natural feel then just a pool, can anyone think of any shows that were set neer water that I might be able to hunt down and look at for examples?

I guess I wasn't clear, The puppets won't actualy be getting wet, We were useing water as a background, it's a large pool so we would sit in the water with our arms extended above our heads and shoot at an angle se that we see water in the background. We would have a peer/dock and some prop...

I'm working as a puppet builder/puppeteer/designer for a project that's just getting off the ground. It deals with water saftey and water related rules. We are trying to find a cheep way to create our makeshift space to shoot the 5 minuet pilot, the problem: water. We found a indoor pool that...

what about ssabmud corp, if we are going with the idea that these characters are the lower end of the spectrum mental capacity wise....(check what it is backwards)

heres the link to that transcript of the "here come the muppets" show http://www.toughpigs.com/anthdisney00.htm

I like the idea of the puppets are a race discovering the world and the person recieving the tapes is just a leader figure for that race.

Who would be responsible for recieving the video's and adding the bit with the ancer character and posting the video's? Oh and I think we at least need to have all the same look, at least that will show that they are all from the same race of monsters.

MrsPepper and I are both from Canada.