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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"puppeteer"”.
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StoneLion: A Narrative of a Kansas City Puppet Theatre
… and artistic director, Tim Cormack, senior head puppeteer, and Taylor Gass, puppeteer and office manager. Lastly, I incorporated my personal experience in a case study when I worked with StoneLion both building and performing their 2012 Mother’s Day for Mother Earth performance of Spirit of the …
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Building a semi-autonomous sociable robot platform for robust interpersonal telecommunication
… software system that connects a remote human puppeteer to the Huggable robot via internet. The paper discusses design decisions made in building the software platform and describes the technologies created for the social communication application. An informal trial of the system reveals how …
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The Quest for Life and Intelligence in Digital Puppets.
… from the Human in the Loop, namely, the digital puppeteer. In digital puppetry, the protagonist is a digital puppet operated by a human who is embedded at the core of the activity, and who simultaneously witnesses their own emotional responses as they are acted out in front of them. My work …
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Delivering Expressive And Personalized Fingertip Tactile Cues
… develop a motorized version, named the Fingertip Puppeteer, or Fuppeteer for short. Various error reduction techniques are presented, and the resulting device is evaluated by analyzing system responses to step inputs, measuring forces rendered to a biomimetic finger sensor, and comparing intended …
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The haunts of language: superstition and subterfuge in Henry James's <i>Stories of the Supernatural</i>
… material. James assumes the role of the puppeteer, while his characters play the puppets themselves.</p> <p>My own method of analysis is a patient, imaginative, fearless application of <em>Logocentric</em> critical techniques. I allow each story to dictate its own mode of criticism, …
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Connections Between Voice and Design in Puppetry: A Case-Study
… events and TV/film, audiences have watched puppeteers bring their puppet characters to life with clever voice quality choices, unique characterizations, and vivid visual designs. This thesis is a case study that first borrows insight from cartoon character designers, animators, and voiceover …