Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Animating zombies with puppets
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What style of animation perfectly mimics the movement of zombies? Puppet animation allows for just the right amount of zombie-like stiff limbs and jerky stumbles. TED-Ed animators show how to bring a zombie to life through 2D puppet animation (and how to try this at home).
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Additional Resources for you to Explore
See the other Animation Basics TED-Ed Lessons.
This is the inverse kinematics script that we use (and some useful information about it)!
Some successful and well-known puppet-style animation include South Park & the Wonder Pets.
Terry Gilliam teaches the magic of cut-out animation.
Here are some of Team TED-Ed's favorite digital puppet-style animation films:
Sita Sings the Blues
Tale of How
Rabbit
What to Do with CO2
And our favorite handmade cut-out films:
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Tale of Tales
Prince and Princess
Fleet Foxes - The Shrine/An Argument

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