Amazing Horse Puppet
This is some demo video of the horse puppets made for a production of War Horse in the UK. They’re phenomenal pieces of work, and have such a nice, fluid, lifelike appearance to them. They take 3 people to operate properly, and can actually support the weight of a rider.
This is the horse puppet being shown off:
And here’s a news segment showing the horse puppets in the play, and at one point realistically running down the street; it’s an eerie visual, but so great:
Amazing Junk Sculptures
Via io9, it’s some fantastic sculptures by Sayaka Ganz, who uses discarded materials to create these wonderful creatures. Such a great re-use of products, and artistically wonderful; the sense of movement on them is really top-notch.
Site updates are coming soon.
There are a bunch of projects and puppets that we’ve worked on in the last while that haven’t yet made it to the site. This is due entirely to me not taking the time, but I will do, soon. Hopefully.
That’s the plan, anyway.
Mosspuppet reviews the iSlate!
Our own technology journalist is so good that he has a review up before the device has even been announced!
Steve Jobs with the iSlate
Mosspuppet has an exclusive photo of Steve Jobs(puppet) holding an iSlate, because what the hell; everyone else is being silly with the tablet rumors.
MacWorld!
We’re going to be headed to MacWorld, to interview some presenters and attendees using a custom-built puppet for Paul Kent and his crew, which is pretty exciting. We’ll have a proper group of pictures up soon to show the puppet, but in the mean-time, this is what he looks like:
Urg.
The site is running terribly slow, which is awesome. Also I need to put a bunch of updates on here, which I will likely not do until after I figure out why it’s slow. My guess is that it’s a theme issue; the current layout’s wearing thin on me, so I might look for a new one.
So many minor, minor things …
Mosspuppet Blog
For a little while now, we’ve been doing rants using a parody of Walt Mossberg, theoretically under the name “Walt Mosspuppet.” (Gizmodo referred to him as Mosspuppet, and being a much higher source of traffic than we, the name stuck) These rants have been available at the Rant Puppets. They still will be, but now there’s also a blog!
The idea is that the blog will be about short content, more frequently delivered, and that the videos will essentially be for the things that really get Mosspuppet upset. And we’re going to try to return to a Weekly schedule for the videos.
If you subscribe to the blog RSS feed, you’ll also see the videos, as we’ll be dropping them in as entries, though the Rantpuppets feed points to the higher quality Blip.tv feed.
The blog is here: http://mosspuppet.wordpress.com/
Cylon Centurion
This is a Cylon Centurion puppet we built recently for a Battlestar Galactica parody that we’re working on. It was constructed with a nice dense foam, and painted with a coat of gray paint, and a coat of metallic paint, in order to give the nice, textured light.
If you’d like to see exactly how we built the puppet, check out our “Building Puppets” series on him, which we’ve embedded below:
Part 1 – wamh wamh:
Part 2 – manipulation:
Part 3 – connections:
Part 4 – finish him:
We think he turned out pretty well.
Battlestar Galactica Puppets finished!
Photos coming soon. I’m super-proud of the work on these puppets, they turned out REALLY well.