Monday, March 31, 2014
How the Jim Henson Company Is Turbocharging Puppetry With Technology
Underwire | WIRED: For decades Jim Henson was able to use television to bring the art of puppetry to massive audiences in a very intimate way on programs like Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. Because of his work, beautiful and masterfully crafted creatures were beamed into homes for years and ensured the popularity of puppets for generations.
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This is really awesome!! This actually reminds me of a robotics competition I went to in High School where the robots had to shoot a basket ball into a hoop. One of the options of how to control the robot was by using kinex. (I think only one team used it) but it was really cool controlling the robots with the kinex. Using modern technology to enhance puppets is really cool because it makes the puppets seems as if they are their own entity and no longer attached to their person. This will be so cool because these creators can make the creatures living forms. You know those people who dress up like Disney characters and walk around Disneyland? What if you can have one of those that didn't have a person in there but they still were able to go around and interact with the visitors!? That would be pretty awesome!
This is some really incredible stuff. I had no idea that even the hand controlled puppets had become so intricate, with such precise movements and facial expressions. It seems like the technology has allowed us to come such a long way since the days of the simpler muppets (though they were certainly groundbreaking in their own right). The mechanical aspects of the puppets in the video were especially fascinating, and also I think a lot more complicated than I had imagined them to be. I would love to learn more about how they work and how to make them.
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