Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:10:03 -0500 From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Is stop-motion puppetry? Sure. Well Alan thats just not fair because I respect your opinion so, if you told me the kitchen sink is puppet, I'd have to agree. So unless anyone has anything else to say on the matter I will let this topic sleep....... for a while. I'm going to go do the dishes. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Alan Cook <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com> wrote: > It never felt like I was doing anything but puppetry when working on Art > Clokey's DAVEY & GOLIATH. It was a low budget undertaking. Each animator > worked alone on a specific scene on his own set area. The puppet movements > felt like actual time---just that it was done in slow-motion. The more the > animator felt that way, the more spontaneous the ultimate moves were > onscreen. The classified advertisemen in the Pasadena Star-News "help > wanted" section tha got me that job was listed under "Puppeteer". > > Ray Peck was on the Clokey Staff when I worked there. Back in New York, he > had aimed for a career as an actor, and in between, worked with a marionette > company (possibly Suzari).. That string puppet training made his stop-motion > work in Glendora CA possible. > > With CORALINE and FANTASTIC MR FOX, as a viewer I got that same sense of > immediacy and spontenaity that I get from live puppets---but of course, with > those films there was a lot of technical enhancement (the equivalent of > hiding marionette strings or control rods.). Both directors of those plush > films have spoken about the puppetness of stop-motion. Don Sahlin, who > stop-animated filmed segments for Sesame Street segments, and also worked > for George Pal also understood the puppetness, and Bob Baker who worked on > Pal's Puppetoons and still runs the longest-running puppet theare in Los > Angeles does too. I don't need further arguments to convince me that > UNIMA-USA is correct in including stop-motion as a puppet catgory along with > string-puppet, shadow puppet, rod puppet..... > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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