I’m glad I’m not the only adult that can forget those are puppets sometimes. When I’m sinking in and immersed, they’re just characters as real as the humans (though I apparently have something called hyperphantasia, which makes that pretty easy for me).
And, I agree, it really comes down to the Henson design and the skill of the puppeteers.
“You have to draw from life itself. You can’t just copy it - if you copied, you’d get a monster with no beauty and no life to it. […] If you’re gonna make creatures, you make them so that you show people their own humanity, their own reality. That’s the responsibility of an artist.”
If you have an hour or so to spare, that was the link to the full movie ;)
I’m glad I’m not the only adult that can forget those are puppets sometimes. When I’m sinking in and immersed, they’re just characters as real as the humans (though I apparently have something called hyperphantasia, which makes that pretty easy for me).
And, I agree, it really comes down to the Henson design and the skill of the puppeteers.
Have you ever seen “Monster Maker”?
If you have an hour or so to spare, that was the link to the full movie ;)
Oh dang! I more what I’m doing once everyone is asleep :)