Your daily dose of puppet horror! (I actually sort of like this one, although there's no shell movement. Low-rent puppets are better in Chinese.)

I am so completely and thoroughly psyched for Madame Tutli-Putli. Film Board of Canada is animation's saviour nowadays, as it has honestly been for a pretty long time.
This is seriously the best animated thing I've seen in years. The animators apparently worked with a human actor to develop the personality of the protagonist, which, from the small ( Read more... )

Best Mefi Post Evar. Mummenschanz. God bless youtube; I remember searching for these clips years ago and coming up with noth-ing.

Lederhosen Lucil music video, with puppets.

Unpleasant linked also a great Polysics video, which you should look at.

This one's for unpleasant.

Omg, look! Muppet wiki! And furthermore, Flat Eric was made by the Creature Shop!

Oh, Fozzie, always being foiled by your own incompetence.

Oh yes, we completely need more "girly girl" role models. The problem with previous female puppets is obviously that they weren't "comfortable wearing a dress," and possibly that they had too little glitter in their hair ( Read more... )

Oh, hi. Sunday I twisted something in my back and had to lie down a lot. It still kind of hurts, but only when my hips and shoulders aren't parallel. I can't paint, because the house is being painted on instead, and the only room in the house with enough light is wide open to painter-dudes, who might LOOK at me. So the internet ( Read more... )

Fun and attractive puppet-and-animated short here. It is one of those things that I wish had been a little tweaked, but is still pretty nice. I quite enjoyed the figment-esque neon plants, and the character design was entertaining, but the transformations were short and sort of jarring. Also the tiger's walk is egregiously splay-legged and he ( Read more... )

Sorry, madeofmeat, I can't find the episode with that sketch you wanted. Someday.
Please accept some other junk instead.


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