Pooppets! Pooppets! Puppets!

From time to time I enjoy mucking around with puppets. Sometimes they muck around with me, the little blighters do it right here on this blog. There's a lot of different types of puppets out there and except for the occasional human puppets all are a lot of fun to play with, but the hardest type of puppet to manipulate with true precision and realism is the Marionette. There's no 'cheat' in their movements as with other hard to manipulate puppets.

With claymation puppets you have time and a video-grabber to work on perfection. In ventriloquism, well, if you see the puppet turn his head real fast it's because the puppeteer is trying to distract you from noticing they can't stop their mouth moving on letters P or T. I won't go into the other 'hard' to use puppets but there are cheats to make the performances look good. But with Marionettes it's all right there in front of you and it's *expletive* hard to give an inanimate object human weight and movement especially at the end of a long flexible string. Try it, you'll see what I mean.

Anyway, I found this vid of an 'unknown' hollywood puppeteer. The puppeteer is absolutely frigg'n brilliant. Now, if only there was a story to go with his skill.