Dragon is a beautiful animation ad made for United Airlines. It’s made using paper cut-out stop-motion puppets, and you can see the process and team, lead by director, Jamie Caliri, in The Making of Dragon. Caliri also directed the ending animation for Lemony Snicket.
(via Lines and Colours)
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National Puppetry Summit: Ward 13
Posted in animation, make, puppetry, puppets, video on Jun 29th, 2006
(photo by Glenn Watson)
I really laughed my way through Peter Cornwall’s Ward 13, one of a number of terrific Australian animations screened at the summit. It’s a stop-motion animation - action/horror/comedy - about a guy who has a road accident and wakes up in the hospital from hell, complete with bizarre medicines, a green tentacled […]
Mrsasta has a photo gallery of an exhibit of the Tim Burton puppets and concept art from The Corpse Bride. I hadn’t been drawn to see the movie until I saw these, but now I think I must.
Here also is an interview with Graham G. Maiden, the head of the puppet department on the Corpse […]
Mr Bill’s Hurricane Warning
Posted in animation on Oct 7th, 2005
In 2004, Mr Bill, a playdough character who regularly gets squished, was in a public service announcement which was part of an America’s Wetland campaign to teach how Louisiana is losing its coastal marshes and to warn about the dangers of hurricanes in New Orleans.