The year ain’t over until JibJab puts ‘er to bed. So watch this video and then go toss your Christmas tree in the trash – cuz 2011 is a goner. Here’s 2011, Buh-Bye!, which was directed Jeff Gill and Evan Spiridellis.
And in this behind-the-scenes clip, you can see JibJab co-founder Evan Spiradellis working an Arnold puppet with his crew.
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The Muppets have been making a lot of noise lately about their November 23rd return to the silver screen. In the meantime, the Muppets urge you to keep quiet, at least while you’re in AMC Theatres.
Keith Lango, an animation veteran who has devoted his blog to sharing his knowledge of animation to anyone who seeks it, has stepped away from his computer long enough to create this puppeted short called My Bathroom. While Keith is not quite ready to give up his day job animating in front of the computer, he’s made a channel of Vimeo for more shorts done with puppetry.
Check out My Bathroom staring Yurt the Yeti:
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared doesn’t appear scary at all. Until it does. This acid-trip in pre-school clothing was created by This is It, “a collective of illustrators, animators, artists and designers based in London.” This short features puppets and some 2D animation, and it was directed by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling. Green isn’t a creative color, stupid!
Stacy Wall of Imperial Woodpecker directed this new spot for Boost Mobile, titled simply Puppets. We meet a poor grown-up who is surrounded by childish puppets, and locked into a childish mobile plan.
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) recently teamed up with Adam Miller, the creator of Mongrels, to create a comedic music video. Our Love is in Your Cornflakes is a live-action video with puppets, all telling the story of a farmer and a cow who miss eachother deeply. The video aims to bring attention cow factories, and how to stop them.
The JibJab team helps us close out a wild year with their puppet short So Long To Ya, 2010. There’s a ton of behind-the-scenes material over on the JibJab blog as well.
… and below you can see the guys from Swazzle puppeting President Obama:
