Couple weeks ago I went to Sony ImageWorks to see the screening of "World Animation Tour." Among all the amazing short films, Madam Tutli Putli really blew my mind away. Take a look at the following links.
http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/madame-tutli-putli/film.php
http://www.madametutliputli.com/putli.html
The technique they developed and achieved definitely changes the look of the stop-motion and further expands the boarder of stop-motion animation as an art form in history. The puppets are given new lives, in terms of realistic acting and surrealistic facial complexions. For acting there's a term called "half gesture," mentioned by the two directors in the interview (Could be found on youtube). For eerily surrealistic puppet effects, I will leave this for you to find out...it's quite interesting.
The DVD is now ready for purchase. Too bad that currently NFB only opens the portal to Canadian Citizens, and for US it is only for institutional/ academic purchase.
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