Robert is a freelance Puppeteer, Motion Capture Director and Puppet Performance Director. Also has many years experience as a Digital Puppeteer/Performance Animation/CG Real-time puppeteer. He helped set up the Real-time CG department at Passion Picture and was involved on numerous projects using Mocap and CG puppeteering techniques. Robert has numerous Film and TV credits as a puppeteer. His more recent are 28 YEARS LATER & THE LEGEND OF OCHI. Other credits include BLACK MIRROR 2 episode “The Waldo Moment”, ANTICHIRST, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. His handy-work as a puppeteer can also be seen in a number of advertisements aired worldwide.
ADVERT: Critters
PUPPETS: Opossum, Racoon Squirrel
ADVERT: VW ID Buzz - Turning Heads
TITLE: Blue Tit
PUPPET: Blue Tit
FILM: 28 Years Later
DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle
Puppet: Various effects
ADVERT: TUBI UK Launch 2024
PUPPET: Talking Skull
ADVERT: KFC Believe in Chicken
PUPPET: Chicken
ADVERT: Quick Books
PUPPET: Receipts Monster
ADVERT: Tingly Ted
CLIENT: Heinz
DIRECTOR: Benji Weinstein
PUPPET: Tingly Ted (Animatronics)
ADVERT: Keys
CLIENT: Nickelodeon
DIRECTOR: Max Siedentopf
PUPPET: Racoon
ADVERT: Channel 4 Ident Advert
Puppet: Tiny the Pink Elephant
ADVERT: Let's Talk about the Elephant in the Room.
CLIENT: TSB
DIRECTOR: Finn Keenan
PUPPET: Tiny the Pink Elephant
FILM: The Legend of Ochi
Additional Scenes filmed.
ADVERTS for Confused.com
PIGGY BANK (Puppeteer Pig)
CLOCK MAKER (Puppeteer Bird/Voice)
WHY DO WE CLAP WHEN WE'RE IMPRESSED. (Puppeteer Rodent)
Puppeteer
FILM: Der Rauder Hotzenplotz
FILLM: The Keeper
Gorefest
ADVERT: Quorn Helping the Planet One Bite at a Time.
IKEA Advert
Campaign: THE HARE & THE TORTOISE
Puppeteer: Tortoise.
TV Advert CALIFORNIA ALMONDS "Logs"
Puppeteer for Squirrel
Once a year, since 2009, over the course of a month I work with the 1st year "DigiPost" vfx/sfx students on their Optical Motion Capture module.
Post Production puppeteering and Voice-Over work for FAUNUTLAND AND THE LOST MAGIC
Feature Film FAUNUTLAND AND THE LOST MAGIC
Out now on YouTube. Kids will love it, so will you.
Real-time motion capture work.
Feature Film - MARY POPPINS RETURNS
Feature Film - DIE KLEINE HEKE / THE LITTLE WITCH
Character - The Crow Abraxas
Directing the 1st Year Tech Art Students Puppet project performance.
Once a year, since 2009, I work with the 1st year "DigiPost" vfx/sfx students on their Optical Motion Capture module.
PROJECTS:
July 2014 - to present day
Real-time Animation
Performance Director
Puppeteer
June/July 2014
Real-time Animation for Nike RISK EVERYTHING
Performance Director
January - June 2014
Puppeteer
October/November 2013
Aleks Meekat "Gary Barlow" Interview
CG Performance animator. Animation created using Performance animation techniques.
September/October 2013
Alexs Meerkat "ITV Awards with Ant and Dec".
Puppeteer for live-time CG character Alexs.
Miaya and Gok presenting the winner of the People's Choice Award for SPECTACLE WEARER OF THE YEAR 2013.
Puppeteer for live-time CG character Miaya.
September 2013
Miaya Live interview with Elizabeth Hurley for SECRET CINEMA .
Puppeteer for live-time CG character Miaya.
May 2013
Charmin Bear "Base Ball Game song"
Puppeteer for live-time CG character Charmin Bear
Dec 2012
Alexs Meerkat interview on THIS MORNING tv.
Puppeteer for live-time CG character Alexs.
September/Oct 2012
Charlie Brookers TV series "BLACK MIRROR 2" Episode 2 "The Waldo Moment".
Puppeteer for live-time CG character Waldo.
Alexs Meerkat "Live Book readings".
Puppeteer for live-time CG character Alexs.
CG Performance animator (also known as Digital Puppeteering) uses puppeteered input devices rigged to CG characters that are generated in real-time.
This Skills Fusions workshop gave introductory tuition in the use of After Effects. After the tuition I was asked to talk about my experiences in the vfx industry.
Live Lexus promotional event featuring the Amazing in Motion "STEPS" puppet.
TV Commercial - RADDEN BARMAN
For Save the Children
TV - Title sequence for MAN DOWN
Film - HARRY HILL THE MOVIE
Directed by Steve Bendelack
Assisting 1st year Design for Performance students with puppeteering on their Puppet project.
Live Lexus promotional event featuring the Amazing in Motion "STEPS" puppet.
TV Commercial Lexus Global "STEPS". Directed by Daniel Kleinman
TV Commercial "BBC Digital Radio 2012", DAB D-Love.
Working as a Lead puppeteer for Voldemort with Blind Summit theatre company who cast and directed 50 puppeteers (15 professionals and 35 volunteers) to bring to life giant puppets of Voldemort (90 feet high!), Captain Hook, Cruella De Ville and the Queen of Hearts in the 'Second on the Right' section of Danny Boyle's thrillingly original Opening Ceremony for London 2012.
TV Series - "WIZARDS VS ALIENS"
Episode - "Grazlax Attacks"
Grazlax puppeteer
Assisting 1st Year Tech Arts students with Puppet films.
Creating the MoCap animation (using Optical and Device driven Motion Capture) for Phyzog.
Phyzog is a kind of Satire Direct, in which the powers that be are caricatured via images and sketches that come straight to your smartphones.
TV - "X FACTOR"
Puppet performer with The Muppets for Olly Murs performance on the X-Factor semi- final.
Creating the MoCap animation (using Optical and Device driven Motion Capture) for Phyzog.
Phyzog is a kind of Satire Direct, in which the powers that be are caricatured via images and sketches that come straight to your smartphones.
TV - “WHAT’S YOUR NEWS” series 2
Mocap Director for the 2nd Season of the award winning series“WHAT’S YOUR NEWS”, a half hour news program for children produced by TT Animation. The CG animation is created using a combination of “Optical Motion Capture” and traditional key frame animation techniques.
Motion Capture supervisor; finding talent, rehearsing, running mocap shoot, motion editing and keeping a sense of humour throughout it all.
Theatre - "LAMINATED"
Laminated is an imaginative and wonderfully visual piece, using puppetry and physical theatre to bring life to the stories and memories of Charlie’s world. It asks us to consider the reality of chasing our dreams, and all the things in life that we can see, but not touch.
Laminated will be at Tristan Bates Theatre, Covent Garden, London from Monday 31st January - Saturday 19th February 2011.
Theatre - "THE ARTICULATE HAND".
Through movement, Andrew Dawson uncovers the grace, beauty and psychological consequences of the impairments of the hand.
The Articulate Hand is a collaboration between performance artist Andrew Dawson and Jonathan Cole, neuroscientist and author.
Funded by a Wellcome Trust Arts award.
Director of the 1st year Tec Arts student puppet performance.
Worked with 1st Year animation students using Motion Capture to help create a 30sec Ident for the animation department. Funded by Skillset.
TV "WHAT'S YOUR NEWS" series 1.
Mocap & Animation Director for all 26 episodes of the CGI project “WHAT’S YOUR NEWS”, a half hour news program for children produced by TT Animation and Nickelodeon. The CG animation was created using a combination of “Optical Motion Capture” with “Performance Animation Techniques”.
Film - "WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE"
Test Pitch film test using Key frame and Performance animation techniques.
Using MotionBuilder software to motion edit, add animation and reblock cut-scenes.
Over my long association with the Jim Henson Company here in the UK and USA, I had the great pleasure of working on numerous films, TV and commercials in a variety of positions and in many different countries.
Films;
HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Puppeteer
FIVE CHILDREN AND IT Puppeteer/Digital Puppeteer
THE WATER GIANT CG Charactor Animator
SESAME ST 3-D FILM Animation Director
THE BROTHERHOOD OF WOLVES CG Charactor Animator
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE Puppeteer
BUDDY Puppeteer
PINOCCHIO Puppeteer
MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND Puppeteer
LOCH NESS Puppeteer/Performance Co-ordinator
MARY REILLY Puppeteer
THE FLINTSTONES Puppeteer/Performance Co-ordinator
THE NEVER ENDING STORY III Performance Co-ordinator
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL Puppeteer/Puppet Co-ordinator
THE POLAR BEAR KING Puppeteer/Puppet Co-ordinator
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II Puppeteer
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES I Puppeteer
THE WITCHES Puppeteer
THE BEAR Puppeteer/Puppet Co-ordinator
LABYRINTH Puppeteer
TV;
FRANCES THE BADGER Animation Director
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Puppeteer
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS CG Charactor Animator
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Puppeteer
THE STORYTELLER SERIES Puppeteer
TV - "CAPTAIN SCARLET"
Used Maya to motion edit various motion captured scenes.
Film "LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS" directed by Frank Oz
Puppeteered a variety of characters throughout Series 6,7,8,10,11,12 & 13. Insane and fun!