Virtual Marionette

I have attended to the string puppet workshop oriented by Stephen Mottram and Marcelo Lafontana at ESMAE Porto in April 2012.

A 10 days workshop divided into building methods and the art of manipulation.

The first part we had to build a marionette based on a kit developed by Marcelo Lafontana and the second part of the workshop we had the opportunity to learn and apply the manipulation methods of a marionette. Stephen Mottram shared some of the most important principles of the marionette biomechanics.

Its all about puppets

http://puppetvision.info/

A new technique brings a Jim Henson touch to a kids”””” science show

Article in the WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122004470200584377.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJ83ztv6Jo

The all history of the major digital animations studies of all times.

link to retinArt blog

http://retinart.net/book-reviews/toinfinityandbeyond/

AL – The animation language

AL is a environment for procedural computer animation which provides a powerful modeling language, a language interpreter, and a set of interactive animation tools.

http://accad.osu.edu/~smay/AL/