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 -- The PuppetVision Blog "The web's best source for puppet film and video goodness, delivered fresh to your computer each day." http://puppetvision.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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