Hundreds of Shadow Puppets Were Stolen. ... “Song of the North,” an adaptation of the Persian poet Ferdowsi’s 10th-century epic “Shahnameh” that combines shadow puppetry, animation and ...

Fashions come and go, but Estonia is still betting on puppet and stop-motion animation. "It may not be mainstream anymore, but Estonian stop-motion is still thriving, with many directors choosing ...

Estonian stop-motion animation still thrives, wins at Cannes, hits Academy shortlists, has busy studios such as Rebel Frame and Nukufilm. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

With 483 shadow puppets — not to mention actors, masks and 208 animated backgrounds — “Song of the North” is no bare-bones production. “It is like a Swiss watch backstage,” says Hamid ...

“Song of the North” involves 483 puppets, 208 animated backgrounds, 16 masks and costumes and nine performers. ... one of the first Westerners to train in traditional Balinese shadow puppetry.

To kick off its 2023 Fall Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry is pleased to host Shadow Puppetry and Digital Animation on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023 at 7 p.m. in the ...

Most of the sets in the production are digital video projections, combining original artwork, charcoal illustration, animated video, shadow puppetry and more. Combined, there’s “a grand sense of scale ...

Puppet films are a niche form of filmmaking that dates back to the 1900s wherein the characters on screen are in the form of puppets. Roy believes that the mediums of animation and film can trace ...

Fashions come and go, but Estonia is still betting on puppet and stop-motion animation. “It may not be mainstream anymore, but Estonian stop-motion is still thriving, with many directors ...