Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 21:33:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gregory Ballora <gregballora-AT-sbcglobal.net>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] Stargate SG1



For those of you who like such things, last week I got
to work on the 200th episode of Stargate SG1.
Personally I never watched the show, but these folks
are great! Came down from Canada to do it, So they
could work with the Chiodo Brothers. Chiodo's are the
guys who finally produced the puppets for Team
America, and this 200th episode is one long list of
gags, the opening of which is done a la Team America.
I think it is mostly funny to the folks that watch the
show regularly.

 Again, it has moments of us trying to do some really
nice puppetry, followed by moments of purposely bad
marionette work that they think is hysterical.
Puppeteers are just not the target audience. But is
was still fun to do. They actually shot the whole
sequence with the actors, then shot plates to
correspond, and then came to LA and shot the puppet
elements on Green Screen. That whole idea of
pre-shooting the sequence with people quickly first to
figure out the plates and the editing seemed pretty
clever to me. 

The show airs around Aug 20th (I think they said
24th?)  So Enjoy!

Greg
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