Ask Palpatine 5: “Is Tom Cruise a Sith Lord?”

January 24, 2008 at 8:55 am · Filed under Misc

Check it out:

http://www.askpalpatine.com/2008/01/24/is-tom-cruise-a-sith-lord/

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Waiting for Foam.

January 18, 2008 at 12:58 pm · Filed under Misc

I’ve ordered reticulated foam from Pasha (over at Project Puppet), and I am now trying hard not to obsessively check the tracking status updates. I see that it’s sitting at “International Dispatch,” and it started at Duncanville, Texas. I am wondering if it means that it’s at the Canadian border, or sitting in an airport in Dallas.

The reticulated foam is the high-quality kind, the stuff that’s better for sculpting, and holds shape and colour well enough to be used as a skin for a puppet, without needing to put fleece on top. I’m going to be using it in the creation of both the Stephen Colbert and Steve Jobs puppets, and it will be my first time using this particular kind of fleece.

When you’re younger, and you imagine what your life will be like, at no point did I imagine I’d be so excited waiting for a shipment of foam to come in. Or, frankly, that I’d be ordering such a shipment.

(That’s not a complaint, mind you, just an observation)

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6: Building the Emperor

January 18, 2008 at 6:28 am · Filed under Inside Hoggworks

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Figurenschneider

January 16, 2008 at 8:44 am · Filed under Misc

Check out this puppet company in Germany. Amazing, amazing stuff:

http://www.figurenschneider.de/

It’s work like this and Thistledown that’s at a level that I want to achieve at Hoggworks. Such creative and technically wonderful work. Bravo.

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Ask Palpatine 3!

January 10, 2008 at 9:13 pm · Filed under Misc

This one is called “Jedi Romance Tips.”

Check it:  http://www.askpalpatine.com/2008/01/10/ask-palpatine-3-jedi-romance-tips/

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5: Talking with Nick, Part 1.

January 9, 2008 at 8:38 am · Filed under Inside Hoggworks

Nick and I talk about the writing of dotBoom 1, where it failed, and how it can be better for season 2.

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Ask Palpatine.

January 5, 2008 at 8:41 pm · Filed under Misc

Got a brand new show, “Ask Palpatine.” Check it out if you’d like to get to know the Dark lord better. He’s really not such a bad guy, all things considered.

Check it out: http://www.askpalpatine.com/

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4: Process, Part 3

January 4, 2008 at 8:15 pm · Filed under Inside Hoggworks

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Two New Designs

January 4, 2008 at 9:17 am · Filed under Designs

Here are two designs, both of which might get built. One is pretty obvious, and the other is a newscaster, which we might build as a character for use in The Rant Puppets.

Thoughts?

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3: Process, Part 2

January 1, 2008 at 8:21 am · Filed under Inside Hoggworks

This is the second part (now of 3) in the look at the elements of the production that we’re going to improve.

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