You can read about digital puppetry's use in the film industry in my essay 'Unholy Alliances and Harmonious Hybrids: New Fusions in Puppetry and Animation' in The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance. Digital puppetry most often involves puppeteer/actors using motion capture suits and/or complex video-game-like controllers to make an image come to life. Some of the most visible examples of digital puppets are the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio’s Sid the Science Kid characters, the surfer-dude turtle in Turtle Talk with Crush (a popular Disney World attraction), and the floating Magic Mirror from Shrek the Musical. Unlike traditional animation, digital puppets can interact spontaneously with characters on the stage or screen, and/or a live audience. For more information, contact me at is a digital puppet?ĭigital Puppets are drawn characters (animated figures) performed live by puppeteers. Our digital puppet app also has significant applications in animation software development (with similarities to the beta-level software tool Adobe Character Animator), museum interactive displays, educational settings, and live performance. 'Kendra' has performed in theaters, classrooms, and festivals - most notably at the outdoor production of Kendra's Bay at the inaugural Light City Baltimore international arts festival. The crab is physically drawn, digitally animated character designed to perform for live audiences. Working with UMBC's Imaging Research Center (IRC), animator Lynn Tomlinson and I have created an award-winning digital puppet app that uses an iPad as its controller. This entry was posted in Elementary School, High School, Middle School by Christie Boen. We’d love to see your student creations! Email your favorites to Christie, John, or Scott. Go to Self Service and download it today. You can keep it simple or dive in and get really creative. Puppet Master looks like it is made for the younger crowd, but don’t let that deter you.

One of the cool things about Puppet Master is that you can animate by Screen Touch or Motion Capture where it will record your movements and voice. Read with the free Kindle apps (available on iOS, Android, PC & Mac). Or, you can import a photo, image or even a drawing and animate that instead. Puppetry, Puppet Animation and the Digital Age - Kindle edition by Giesen, Rolf.

In Puppet Master you can take a puppet (they have many to choose from) and animate it. We are adding the Puppet Master app to Self Service – another great creative tool. We use iMovie, Keynote, Stop Motion, Notability, and other apps to create magical stories, to explain learning or how to do something or to simply entertain. Many of us enjoy creating videos, or at least our students do.

Puppet animation apps