Bear Town

[Buck-Beaver]

Thanks! The Preacher was actually built by Marlene Reimer's company Puppets For Goodness Sake. At the risk of “ruining the magic” and say that the church is actually just a series of pictures I digitally manipulated to create background plates - the Preacher was shot against a green screen in my kitchen.

I included your message with a bunch of the feedback I've been getting on the episode so far and posted pics of the background plate and the puppet against greenscreen in my blog this morning.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

This was very very very funny!! I really enjoyed it. Voting for God! HA! Can't wait til the next installment!

Muley luvs Bear Town!

 

[The Narrator]

Loved the first installment, Buck! Funny stuff and puppets eating popcorn!

And now for the bad news...
There seemed to be a few sound issues in terms of character volume levels and through the entire episode (at least, the high bandwidth version) I was only getting sound through the left channel, rather than equal amounts in the left and right channels.

Looking forward to the next sketch! Where are the cockroaches?

 

[zoetrope]

This is an ambitious project. Volume level issues aside, I'm looking forward to the next installment.

 

[Super Scooter]

...and a thumb...

Puppets usually only have four fingers.

Yeah, yeah, you caught me.

Everything looks great, Buck! I dunno if I can watch it or not, though.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Puppets usually only have four fingers.

Yeah, yeah, you caught me.

Everything looks great, Buck! I dunno if I can watch it or not, though.

Oh, I thought we were talking about Andrew. You're talking about the puppets?!

In that case, you're right. 4 fingered discount.

Unless you're the Swedish Chef...

 

[Buck-Beaver]

OK, I lied. No new episode this week, largely because I have to go out of town for my brother's wedding and before that I have a bunch of non-puppet freelance stuff that has piled up.

I did however post a picture of one of the cockroaches from the second episode in my blog (hit the link in my sig to see it - it's listed under the June 1st entry). I should have some "preview" pics from the episode up later today.

Also working on better compression of the episodes so they're not so huge and easier to download.

 

[ScrapsFlippy]

Adorable cockroach, Buck!

Is the mouth practical?

- SF

 

[Buck-Beaver]

No, not on that particular puppet. Three of them do have practical mouths, but the rest (like the one in the picture) just have heads that pivot using a rod control.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

If the roaches in my apartment looked like that, then I wouldn't need to call the exterminator. I bet I could have a conversation with your roaches!

Come to think of it, I have conversations with the ones in my apartment now; stuff like, "DIE YOU SCUM!" and stuff...

Your's looks much more fun!