File puptcrit/puptcrit.0705, message 119


Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 19:25:41 -0400
From: Andrew <puppetvision-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Singing to the choir


I think Allan makes an excellent point (one which I hadn't thought of) about
puppets being "kinetic sculptures". I would personally remain reluctant to
call Jansen's free-roaming wind powered creatures technically puppetry,
merely because they aren't being manipulated by a performer which to me is
the essence of puppetry.

By the same token, I think of stop motion as more animation than puppetry
simply because animation is generally (although not universally) regarded as
creating movement frame by frame in time-based media, whereas puppetry is
generally (although, again, not universally) considered to be more about
manipulation and movement in real-time.

That being said, I suppose these types of distinctions really are a matter
of semantics. Puppetry, animation, mask, etc. are all branches of the same
tree and are more alike than they are different and are most interesting
when they are mashed up together.

Great discussion!

- Andrew

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