The comedy helps the viewer enjoy the animation without noticing the simpleness of the clay puppet.

The stop-frame puppet animation, which depicts some of the events from Titus Groan and Gormenghast, was initially inspired when Joan found a tattered paperback copy of Titus Groan while she was staying at a youth hostel in Holland.

Their puppet animation set designs have been curated as an internationally touring exhibition called " Dormitorium " and most recently on display in 2010 at Parsons School of Design, New York.

Puppetry is a live medium and this distinguishes it from animation in which animators make a puppet appear to move by using a stop motion film technique in which the puppet is moved tiny fractions between each frame.

Clampett made hand puppets as a child, and before adolescence had completed what animation historian Milt Gray describes as " a sort of prototype, a kind of nondescript dinosaur sock puppet that later evolved into Cecil.

Dykstra's technician's added extra animation to the existing puppet, including ear movement, and built the tunnels through which he moved.

Harryhausen draws a distinction between films that combine special effects animation with live action and films that are completely animated such as the films of Tim Burton, Nick Park, Henry Selick, Ivo Caprino, Ladislav Starevich and many others ( including his own fairy tale shorts ) which he sees as pure " puppet films ", and which are more accurately ( and traditionally ) called " puppet animation ".

The ABC TV 90s children's puppet animation series " Bump In the Night " makes a variety of veiled tributes to Harryhausen, also.

The rest of the films Cohl made for Gaumont involve strange transformations (" Les Joyeaux Microbes " Joyous Microbes ", aka " The Merry Microbes " ( UK ) ( 1909 )), some great matte effects (" Clair de lune espagnol " Moonlight ", aka " The Man in the Moon " ( US ), aka " The Moon-Struck Matador " ( UK ) ( 1909 )), and loving puppet animation (" Le Tout Petit Faust " Little Faust ", aka " The Beautiful Margaret " ( US ) ( 1910 )).

The result was the short film Lucanus Cervus ( 1910 ), apparently the first animated puppet film with a plot and the natal hour of Russian animation.

It is puppet stop motion animation, directed by Anatoly Karanovich and narrated by I. Medvedyeva.

The programs featured inserts of animation of puppet photo cutouts done mainly by Michael Nicholson, in a manner reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's work on Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Both Ewok films were some of the last intensive stop-motion animation work Industrial Light & Magic ( ILM ) produced, as in the early 80s, the technique was being replaced by go-motion animation, a more advanced form with motorized articulated puppets that moved while the camera shutter was open, capturing motion blur in the otherwise static puppet, eliminating the harsh staccato movement often associated with stop-motion.

It was announced that the film, like the original shorts, will be based on puppet animation enhanced with modern stop-motion technology and computer graphics effects ( similar to the plans for the Pilot Studio film ), and would be shot simultaneously in two languages – English and Russian.

In the fall of 1946 he first considered puppet animation films, and began to experiment with the help of Břetislav Pojar.

Really Trnka was not involved so much with the animation itself, but primarily on the development of scripts and puppet making.

His story and in-game appearance were endorsed-in a comparison with Tomb Raider III, his free-flowing character animation was described as making " Lara look like a glove puppet.

* Tadao Nagahama ( 1936 – 1980 ), director of puppet shows and animation

Since 1982, she has also been an animation voice actor, worked on the Monopoly game show pilot, and even operated the Crypt Keeper puppet on Tales from the Crypt.

BZNS was made into a Communist puppet group until 1989, when it reorganized as a genuine party.

In 1952, Fosdick was the star of his own short-lived puppet show on NBC, featuring the Mary Chase marionettes.

Babylon was then ruled by a native Babylonian puppet of the Assyrians Bel-ibni, who was replaced by Ashur-nadin-shumi, an Assyrian prince who was murdered by the Elamites and replaced with a native Babylonian puppet Nergal-ushezib.

The play was not officially endorsed by the Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to a central puppet character named " The Wizard of Cahs ".

The unsuccessful " Wonga Coup " was attempted by European and South African mercenaries in 2004 with the goal of replacing Obiang with a puppet ruler who would open the country's mineral wealth to the plotters.

The emperors was then a puppet figure only and could easily be disposed of by the French for more pro-France figure.

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.

Because they were stationary, the viewer could not tell which character was talking unless its puppet moved up or down.

Another puppet ( from the waist up ) was also designed that had a nozzle in the mouth to spray out liquid mist simulating Godzilla's fire breath.

The theater owed its name to Guignol, which was a traditional Lyonnaise puppet character, joining political commentary with the style of Punch and Judy.

The Huis van Alijn ( House of the Alijn family ) was originally a beguinage and is now a museum for folk art where theatre and puppet shows for children are presented.

Featuring lots of Clokey's puppet films, as well as variety, interviews and games, it was hosted by Robert " Nick " Nicholson from March to June, then by Pinky Lee until November.

This new puppet state existed until November 1918, when it was replaced by the newly established Republic of Poland.

The occupied country was divided in three zones ( German, Italian and Bulgarian ) and in Athens, a puppet regime was established.

The papacy was moved to Avignon and all the contemporary popes were French, such as Philip IV's puppet Bertrand de Goth, Pope Clement V.

Ivo Caprino ( 17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001 ) was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films.

Unfortunately, Caprino was unable to secure funding for the project, so he ended up making the planned folk tale sequences as separate 16 minute puppet films, bookended by live action sequences showing Asbjørnsen.

For example, in Spitting Image, Major's puppet was changed from a circus performer to that of a grey man who ate dinner with his wife in silence, occasionally saying " nice peas, dear ", whilst at the same time nursing an unrequited crush on his colleague Virginia Bottomley – an invention, but an ironic one in view of his affair with Edwina Currie, which was not then a matter of public knowledge.

Besides the suit with the two separate arm attachments, a meter high model and a puppet of Kong ( used for closeups ) were also built.

Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference to the original characters created by Henson.

Thus Oda Nobutomo, as the brother to the deceased Nobuhide and deputy to the shugo, used the powerless Yoshimune as his puppet and challenged Nobunaga's place as Owari's new ruler.

In 1931, an increasingly militaristic Japanese Empire, which had long sought influence in China as the first step of what its government saw as the country's right to rule Asia, used the Mukden Incident as a pretext to launch an invasion of Manchuria and establish the puppet state of Manchukuo.

The Polisario Front is considered by Morocco to be a Moroccan separatist movement, referring to the Moroccan origins of most of its founding members, and its self-proclaimed SADR to be a puppet state used by Algeria to fight a proxy war against Morocco.

There is a longstanding connection with Punch and Judy street puppet performers who traditionally used Polari to converse.

A puppet of Ford was used to create a shadow on the by model because Ford had filmed the scene against bluescreen, which did not incorporate the shaft of light from the entrance.

A fourth puppet was used for the decaying clothes, because the puppet's torso mechanics had been exposed.

" This Oscar puppet that was used in filming is on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

is used sparingly as a complement to Carlo Rambaldi's extraordinary puppet.

The puppet theatre Tęcza used to collaborate with the similar institution called Arcadia in Oradea, Romania, but the partnership ceased after 1989.

* Emu ( puppet ), puppet used by the late entertainer Rod Hull

In the Tang Dynasty houses of pleasure, where drinking games were common, small puppets in the aspect of Westerners, in a ridiculous state of drunkenness, were used in one popular permutation of the drinking game ; so, in the form of blue-eyed, pointy nosed, and peak-capped barbarians, these puppets were manipulated in such a way as to occasionally fall down: then, whichever guest to whom the puppet pointed after falling was then obliged by honor to empty his cup of Chinese wine.

* The Empress is an enemy stand in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, used secretly by minor character Nena to attack Joseph Joestar by infecting his arm with a flesh puppet.

A similar routine was used with the same puppet on The Muppets on Puppets.

Twill's puppet was recycled from Fred from the Munchos commercials and later used for Zelda Rose in The Muppet Show.

Further, Vortigern used Constans as a puppet king and ruled the nation through him until he finally managed to kill him through the use of insurgent Picts.

* Jericho was the name of a sock puppet used by Cyril O ' reilly in the HBO series Oz.

However, Rambaldi successfully used puppetry to depict two of the aliens, the first being a marionette ( for the tall alien that is the first to be seen emerging from the mothership ) and an articulated puppet for the alien that communicates via hand signals with Lacombe near the end of the film.

Initially consisting of one puppeteer, by 1730 three puppeteers were used to operate each puppet in full view of the audience.

The puppet used for Granny Bird is actually a spare Big Bird puppet, and Spinney provides her voice.

With his distinctive salmon-colored skin, high-domed head and large fish-like eyes, Admiral Ackbar was realized in Return of the Jedi through the use of a half-body puppet and slip-on mask, depending on the camera angles used.