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From Muppets to Digital Puppets

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Jim Henson Company has created some of history's greatest puppets, including Kermit the Frog, but it's latest character, Sid the Science Kid, is completely digital. WSJ's John Jurgensen reports. (Aug. 30)

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  • Hm.. Neat idea, but using the style of sesame street and the muppet show is still the only real thing for me. I grew up on those shows and heck I still love the muppets...

  • It is cool..but I still like real muppets better :). Their limits in movement always gave them a certain character :3

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  • @ChimeraProd Since it's such a new technology that only a few movie studios are utilizing, you may have to start with Electronics for Dummies and Programming for Dummies. And even then you might not know enough to do it. I know that I don't even know where to start, but I sure wish there was a schematic and some freeware somewhere.

  • THIS IS SO AMAZING!

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  • ROBIN!!! I knew I recognized Sid's voice from someone, but I couldn't think of who!

  • @winnetouch I still love muppets too.

  • I recall there was a weekly russian show in late 90ies where CG puppeteered characters acted against studio guests. There was a special giving insight into production, and if i recall correctly, the second puppeteer controlled facial expression with 2 gloves both registering the stretch on each finger. Come to think of it, this sounds like similar results might work with 10 slider pult or 8 sliders and 2 analog thumbsticks. A MIDI faderbox can serve as a hardware basis, as could AVR-HID.

  • Wow. Besides the mocap, Can you please tell me where I can find more info on designing a hand controller, or even any controllers, for facial and mouth expressions?

  • Great innovation.

  • cool

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