{"id":179,"date":"2005-12-08T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T09:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2007-12-31T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T05:13:35","slug":"machin-x-digital-puppetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/12\/08\/machin-x-digital-puppetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Machin-X: digital puppetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew from <a href=\"http:\/\/puppetvision.blogspot.com\/\">PuppetVision<\/a>, has opened another blog,<a href=\"http:\/\/machin-x.blogspot.com\/\">Machin-X<\/a> to do with digital puppetry.  In his <a href=\"http:\/\/machin-x.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/welcome-to-machin-x.html\">introductory post<\/a>, Andrew defines digital puppetry as distinct from 3D animation and motion capture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I define digital puppetry &#8211; at least for the purposes of this blog &#8211; as the manipulation and performance of digital objects and characters in real-time using a mouse, joystick or some other kind of input device. The forthcoming Jim Henson series <a href=\"http:\/\/muppetnewsflash.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/henson-takes-puppetry-to-next-level.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Francis<\/span><\/a>? That&#8217;s digital puppetry. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machinima\">Machinima<\/a>? That&#8217;s a homebrewed form of digital puppetry. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comcastic.com\/\">This<\/a> is definitely digital puppetry too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep an eye on Machin-X as it documents projects and explores developments in a very new field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew from PuppetVision, has opened another blog,Machin-X to do with digital puppetry. In his introductory post, Andrew defines digital puppetry as distinct from 3D animation and motion capture: I define digital puppetry &#8211; at least for the purposes of this blog &#8211; as the manipulation and performance of digital objects and characters in real-time using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[413,1355,1365],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-digital-puppetry","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-2T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}