More Skrumps Stuff

This is kind of old news, but there's some new-ish content featuring the Henson Company's digital puppetry characters The Skrumps (see previous post) available on Yahoo Kids. The new material includes four new Skrumps videos, ecards and a few other downloadable goodies. Also, The Muppet Newsflash recently posted an interview with Victor Yerrid, who is one of the puppeteers working on The Skrumps.

The End of Red Vs. Blue

Pioneering Machnima creators Rooster Teeth Productions have announced that they will be ending their insanely popular series Red vs. Blue with the series' upcoming 100th episode. Red vs. Blue is significant for many reasons, not the least of which was that it was a huge viral hit that put Machinima on the map. Six episodes left to go and if you've never seen the show before now seems like a great time to go check it out and see what you've been missing.

Via Thinking Machinima.

Henson debuts The Skrumps

The Skrumps is a new digital puppetry series from The Jim Henson Company.

The Jim Henson Company is developing a new animated property called The Skrumps, based on a line of colourful, monster-like toy characters created by artist John Chandler. The series is being produced using the Henson Digital Performance System and looks very promising. John Chandler, Skrumps puppeteer Victor Yerrid and Henson's head of Children's Programming Halle Stanford discuss The Skrumps and their development in the latest episode of the Henson.com podcast.

The Skrumps debuted today in four new videos available at Yahoo! Kids for a limited time. Be sure to take a look!

Via The Muppet Newsflash.

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13/01/07 Update: A behind-the-scenes video about the making of The Skrumps is now available on Henson.com. It's fairly short, but gives a basic overview of how their HDPS works and shows the performers in action.