A BRAND NEW SIDE PROJECT!!

As you may have noticed, things have momentarily slowed down a bit on the Muppet Show project. Hectic schedules and Career changes have briefly haulted the puppet building process for a few weeks. BUT DO NOT FEAR!! I can officially announce that work is begining with our new prop and puppet builders Charles and Kim on our brand new adventure!! A side project to fill the void as work progresses on our muppets, and i think any fan of the muppet show will enjoy it!

STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES AND DETAILS! 

-CRAZY CHRIS

SOME NEW THREADS FOR MISS JANICE

Sorry for our lack of posts in the past couple weeks guys! Our puppet maker Mark has been quite busy with some side projects and pursuing some new and exciting career advancements! But do not worry!! Work on our Floyd puppet begins early next week!! Until then, feast your eyes on Janice's new ensemble!! Her classic pink shirt , brown hat, and some gorgeous new wedge sandals!!

-CRAZY CHRIS

SEVERAL NEW GREEN SCREEN BACKGROUNDS AND FOREGROUNDS

Work continues on our backgrounds!

The dressing room has proven to be the hardest task so far!! finding any shots without a guest star smack dab in the middle of the shot is near impossible... so ive composited shots from multiple episodes to create this!

 

This can serve as stage right or left by simply flipping the photo

The band stand was quite a task as well! Every shot has members of the Electric Mayhem in it, so you are forced to composited visable portions and try to create something seamless. It will no doubt look better with the drum kit and characters superimposed in post production. But for now, it's all we have!

 

 

 

 

 

 The piano was a huge challenge! Rowlf is notoriously always seated at his prized instrument and normally has his furry little paws laying on the keys. But i have managed to come up with a few angles for some panning shots.

 

 

And last but certainly not least. My favorite so far! This is actually composited from about 3 different shots and colorized matching curtains added in order to maintain the original aspects integrity. The iconic podium of our dear friend Sam the eagle!

Ya really have to use your imagination with some of these to see how the finished product might look! Hopefully you will be forgiving and understand our limitations when you see the project finished!

-CRAZY CHRIS

SOME PHOTOS OF OUR COMPLETED JANICE!

Here are some fun photos of our completed Janice puppet!! ENJOY!

-CRAZY CHRIS

VIDEO: JANICE IS COMPLETE

Everyone's favorite "Valley Girl" is complete! Check out her brand new Veterinarian's Hospital costume!!

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO

-CRAZY CHRIS

SOME NEW BACKGROUND GRAPHICS

This particular part of the project has become quite tedious... but fun! Let me just briefly explain what all goes into creating these graphics. First you have to watch LOTS of Muppet shows. That's the fun part! You study every scene to find those instances where all or part of the background is left empty (very rare because those pesky Muppets are everywhere!) .Then you must print screen shots of those instances and composite the multiple photo layers together until you have created a complete background/foreground photograph. (This job is much harder given the fact that i am expanding from a standard screen show to a widescreen background). After your complete photograph is done you must cut out the foreground from the background and create multiple layers in order to add the green screen portion which will allow your final filmed puppet scenes to be seamlessly inserted into the muppet theater without having to build thousands of dollars worth of sets that simply could never look as authentic as the real thing.

ENJOY!

-CRAZY CHRIS