Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:04:36 -0500
From: Andrew Young <beartown-AT-bear-town.com>
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Best puppet movies


To me Yoda is probably the ultimate achievement in movie puppetry - a 
completely believable character that was so well executed and so readily 
accepted by an audience that he became a cultural icon. It's all the 
more impressive when you consider it predates even The Dark Crystal 
(though a lot of the people involved with Yoda also worked on that movie 
too) and no one had ever attempted to do something like Yoda before. 
Inspired by this discussion I put some Yoda-related links up at 
http://puppetvision.blogspot.com/2005/01/making-of-yoda.html (it 
includes a link to the "Creating Yoda" documentary featured on the 
recent Star Wars trilogy DVD set).

I know a programmer in California who works frequently with ILM and he 
tells me they're doing some *very* cool stuff with Yoda in Revenge of 
the Sith, but if you ask me it will never be the same as that little 
green rubber puppet Stuart Freeborn made.

BiersBlackwood-AT-aol.com wrote:

>Before the days of CGI, there were not only puppet Yodas and Jabbas (and Salacious Crumb and the members of Jabba's weird band, but whenever there was a dog attack scene in a film, e.g. "The Omen" with Gregory Peck, the dog heads were usually puppets.
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>These are just some thoughts about films that make use of some or even a lot of "live action" puppetry without it being generally noticed or recognized. 
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>Sean
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