Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:48:01 -0500 From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Is Herbie a Puppet? > =A0Until I thought of it that way: when a motion capture performance > artist uses his/her body in a way to animate a creature/object that is > different than his/her own body, especially in anatomy and/or body > position/options/capabilities, to me, it's nothing else than puppetry. > The puppet brings something else than the "plain" body of the > performer, and a very specific set of puppeteering skills is required. I totally agree with this differentiation. Motion Capture can be puppetry when the actor is not simply acting or the mime is not simply miming. I think that they have to be employing the skills or mindset of the puppeteer or puppetic intent or (I can't even describe it but know it when I see it) before it is puppetry. > =A0Would the displacement =A0of focus of the performance into a different > part of the body/object be a definitive criteria in deciding whether > or not something/anything performed live is actually puppetry? > =A0I'm currently inclined to think so, considering that many an art form > is required of a puppeteer in order to give full life and meaning to a > performance, yet none of these by themselves can be called puppetry > until they are used with the specific goal in mind. > =A0Like the same toolbox can be used to build a functional piece of > furniture or an exquisite work of art, I believe Motion Capture to be > such a tool set, and that in itself, it cannot be called puppetry,> himself, and called it puppetry without any doubt. > =A0If this is possible, imagine what a three-headed, winged, 6 legged > creature could be, when animated by motion capture, perhaps by several > puppeteers, acting in unison, most likely looking to the outside > observer as a bunch of crazy contemporary dancers with some alien > rhythm... > =A0No need to to be fully alien to fit in the category I named. How > about puppeteering a severely amputated actor, via motion capture? > =A0Or a person with extra limbs, or the ability to fly, or to stretch > its skin... > =A0The arms become wings, a broomstick could be Pinnochio's nose > extending at a puppeeteer's precise motion... > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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