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THE MAGIC LANTERN is a Ryerson University short film project. Last fall I recorded the voice for a character called Carousel Man. All these months later the animators are still hard at work, moving their sculpted figures one frame at a time to bring their characters to life.
Release date May 2018 Genre Short, Coming-of-Age, Stop-Motion About Hand-crafted landscapes and 3D printed puppets come to life in this surreal/dreamlike world built upon a kid’s fear of losing his freedom and imagination. Directed By Youp Zondag Written By Youp Zondag & Mariana Ospina-Arteaga Screenplay By Youp Zondag Produced By Mariana Ospina-Arteaga
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Today at The Toronto School of Puppetry I taught stuffed animal animation, where students used ordinary, friendly, good old fashioned stuffies to practice some of the many aspects of live, hands-on puppetry. Store bought stuffed toys are actually perfect for this type of learning. They're already made, they're inexpensive and easy to find, and most of them tend to have "personalities" already built right into them. For pure puppet performance techniques, we learned how to reduce the expressions in our own faces and bodies so we could begin to speak and think and emote through our hands. We learned breath, language of the head, focus, gravity, team puppetry, voice, the importance of the stop, and the time-tested "take" that really connects a puppet to its audience and creates the empathy that we so desperately crave. Special shout out to my trusted colleagues Ingrid Hansen and Adam Proulx for their input and support all day. I do believe that a fun time was had by all!  |
