PUPPETRY GONE WRONG 6-15-05 (VIEW THE VIDEO)
Puppetry and stop motion animation are cool, and can be considered great art forms if the tools crafting the puppets are put into the right hands. Puppetry (especially in cinema) isn't a topic I've really gotten into on this site much in the past but there are limitless examples of outstandingly good, and amazingly sucky; much of which I'll be sure to delve deeper into in the future, but for now I just want you to focus on the puppet work I've featured in the screen shots above.
Up until recent advancements in CG, most big blockbuster films' special effects were created by the careful craftsmanship of master puppet artists.
With computer generated movie effects becoming the Hollywood norm, there are a lot of amazingly gifted puppet artists looking for work. Puppet artists who are desperate
THIS VIDEO (the still frames above are from said video) is what the art of puppetry was not invented for.
Please excuse me while I take a moment to address the creator of this alien puppet, and any other desperate puppet artists who are scratching to make ends meet:
"Hello Sir or Madame,
I know that you are one of the many unemployed master puppet artists whom are desperate for puppet crafting work, but let's take a step back. Please do not shit on the art form like this. Have some humility. There is already so much sucky art out there, creating a CROONING ZELOT ALIEN PUPPET is just contributing to the greater bad. I won't even bother getting into the mildly retarded human host, or the two strange African American ventriloquist dummy children the Alien shares a ledge with.
Please, do the entire puppetry community a favor and start selling hand crafted alien chachkas to tourists at Area 51. You'll make a modest living, and keep some modicum of credibility. Plus, you will be able to sleep at night knowing that you have made a lot of nice conspiracy theorists some lovely vacation keepsakes. If that seems like too much work, there is always Crank Yankers."
Just another day in the life of an Art Juggernaut.
-Cojo