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Do You Know Diddley Sqot? Indiegogo.mov

Indiegogo campaign by Mike Quinn to fund the creation of his alien character Diddley Sqot using new hybrid animation/puppetry technique: QZimation.

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'Dancing With The Stars' - 'The Muppets'

'Dancing With The Stars' - 'The Muppets'

Dancing With The Stars Season 13 Week 9 Results Show November 15, 2011

Song: "Life's a Happy Song"

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BIOGRAPHY
Childhood performing included a professional magic act at the age of 8 and a live puppet show at age 9 that ended in a custard pie fight. He spent many a day backstage exploring the workings of live shows as his older sister performed in Pantomimes such as Babes In The Wood at the London Palladium. After becoming fascinated by The Muppet Show, he knew that was the future for puppetry. He first met Jim Henson and his puppeteers as a fan in 1977, later becoming a regular visitor to the set of The Muppet Show bringing along home made Muppet style puppets and learning and receiving much encouragement from Jim Henson and his co-workers.

Upon leaving school he directly landed his first job as a Muppeteer in 1980 being personally chosen by Jim Henson to work on The Great Muppet Caper filling in on crowd scenes and doubling up for main characters. This directly led to building Podlings and Slaves for The Dark Crystal and then actually performing the Slavemaster Skeksis for the film.

Many Muppet and creature film and television projects followed including the fan favorite alien Millennium Falcon copilot Nien Nunb on Return of the Jedi and assisting Frank Oz with the evergreen lovable Yoda.

Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, whilst continuing with his puppeteering career, he joined forces with fellow puppet master David Barclay to create Ultimate Animates, a production company created to experiment and develop new building and performing techniques for many of their own internal as well as external puppet productions. This led to Mike directing and producing many productions.

A natural progression for Mike was to explore the use of computer graphic technologies to assist and to open up the performing and acting possibilities for his characters. By early 1997 he moved to San Francisco to become a character animator for Pixar after being impressed by their character work in Toy Story. Although he animated on A Bug's Life, his finest moment at Pixar was most definitely developing and animating on the 1950s style TV puppet show Woody's Round Up on Toy Story 2.

His desire to go full circle took him next to George Lucas's ILM, first animating the famed dinosaurs in Jurassic Park 3, then moving on to animate on Yoda along with many other creatures in Star Wars Episode 2.

Fresh from his time as an animator, he is busy acting on stage and screen and also once more puppeteering with the Muppets. He is also be pursuing character voice over work, and developing many of his own independent productions for future film and television projects.

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Do You Know Diddley Sqot? Indiegogo.mov

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'Dancing With The Stars' - 'The Muppets'