Belated Puppet Sunday (Because there were dogs in my house.)

This is from Forgetting Sarah Marshal. It has Bill Hader in.

 His eyebrows are both funnier & sexier than you. Fact. (Unless you are Oliver, then they are not.)

Bill Hader is AWESOME.

No, REALLY. Bill Hader is AWESOME.



I have no idea why he doesn't do more cartoon work. He does the best voices. (Go & watch Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, it's a dope film. Anna Faris is a lot funnier than Scary Movie(s) may have made her seem.) I can't find a clip for it that you can watch in the UK but go & find the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode with the Balloon Hitler in, Der Inflatable Fuhrer. I believe it's called. He does the voice of Hitler.





As it's PUPPET Sunday, not Bill Hader Sunday, here's some more Dracula:





I would like my little fellas to look & work like this, but it's scaring the Class Of Nuke 'Em High Hell out of me that they take two people to opperate. I think the hardest thing I have to do is going to be finding someone to play Hutch. If only I knew Bill Hader...(Who is AWESOME.)

Fuck it. Here's some more:



Also go watch Hot Rod. It is also dope. If only for Lovejoy being an utter asshat, oh & this scene:

If this doesn't make you laugh I hate you.

I feel this is valid as dancing will be a big part of the show, the puppets have to look funny when they dance. I'm working on an "Excited Grover" type movement.

Yes, like that.

Oh & no, I didn't forget. Bill Hader was on the creative crew of South Park which had a rare guest voice for Chef Vader, now who do you think did that voice? Peter Serafinowicz. ONE STEP HAH!  

I am proud of these things, for I fail at most everything else. 

Canadians are Awesome: What my little guys are going to look like.

So I haven't posted for a couple of weeks due to moving house, this sucks as it means I'm miles away from anywhere, but rules as the few things I am near are far more condusive toactually making this thing instead of the endless pages of scripts & writing I've been doing. Or calling everything reserch, when really I'm just googling places to buy Star Wars curtains.

Pretty much the first thing I put to paper was this:

Having drawn them, the idea being they should look like the comic characters I had previously drawn, but some how they came out looking like Canadians from the South Park Universe.



I'm kind of happy with this as Canadians are awesome. Here are some of my Favourites:

Dan Aykroyd

A Ghostbuster & a Blues Brother? You sir are Awesome.

He also makes wine. I could go on & on but I won't, we have a list to get through.

Ike Moishe Broflovski

 Yes he is fictional, no I don't care.

Leslie Nielsen

Danny Antonucci

The Creator of Ed, Edd & Eddy

Pamela Anderson

Be proud Canada, be damn Proud!

Jay Baruchel

Not only an ace actor & super proud Canadian, but I would climb over Anderson to get to him *swoon*

Here he is being super posi about his home town:

(I also recommend the Trotsky, here also is all of Undeclared on teh tube. Watch it. It's funny.)

James Howlett a.k.a Logan a.k.a Wolverine 

 

John Kricfalusi

 

Creator of this, dude changed my life <3 

John Franklin Candy 

 

Dude, you are still missed in my book. But thanks.

Michael J. Fox

 

There are plenty of others including Shatner, Cree Summer, Tara Strong, Phill Hartnell, The inventors of Trivial Pursuit, Mike Myers, Seth Rogan but I ran out of patience, time for bands:

Death From Above 1979 

I really wish I could found ANY of their videos. 

Fucked Up 

Godspeed You! Black Emperor 

 

 Rush 

 

Teegan & Sara 

 

Again, a bijillion more I coud name, Japandroids & Vovoid spring stright to mind... But that's quite enough for on. Back on course. Saturday I went to my favourite haberdasher/material shop, Anglia Fashion Fabrics. It's just magical & the ladies who work there are all just superstars. Most of my little fella's clothes will be made from dolls clothes & my scrap bag, apart from the girl cardy, which I've started knitting. So all I really needed were the eyes & some felt to play around with. I've choosen dark pink for the girls skin as I want them to have dark brown hair (Yeah for old hair extensions...). I've got the nose for my dog puppet (More on that later) & a bell for his collar. Here is a picture of what I bought!

 

Honestly it's made me pretty excited. Hehe! I have also picked out names for my guys: I believe they will be Called POPPY & HUTCH, they are both names I've used before in short stories & they seemed to work well. If you can read my scrawlings around the top of the pictures, you will see the have personalities set out & there's also the phrase that will be the title of my show, but more on that later.

  

 

Sunday Puppet Awesomeness

I'm going to do this every Sunday. Just a video of some great puppteering. 

Ma nah ma nah.

This a great example of how simple a puppet can be to be unbelievably funny. I love the way they are designed to move, it's something I've been looking into a lot. I've written a list of movements I want my characters to be able to do. 

Firstly they have to be able to face palm:

Then they have to be able to do a big sigh:

(it's the moment at 0:15 that slays me every time.)

Then they have to be able to do a funny dance:

(Turn the sound off first if you are easily offended by shrill pop)

So the way I create them has to reflect these things. I feel the video above (The Muppets, not the GIANT Japanese cat.)  is one of many great examples of designing a puppet specifically for movement.