Trial By Stone: The Dark Crystal Podcast
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When my YouTube channel is active, I make it a point collate the news from the previous month. It is like being a travelling song-teller from Thra, heralding the news from all corners of known Thra! So, in case you haven’t been around, here is a round up of all the news from this past unum:
Well, we’ve already talked about this upcoming collection and now it is here. Nothing much more to say other than: these are awesome, and some are already selling out, so jump on this quick.
… Read the restJoe Manganiello’s Death Saves streetwear line is launching a new collection featuring Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance at New York Comic Con. Manganiello, best known for his appearances in Justice League and True Blood, launched his Death Saves streetwear line as a passion project a year ago.
“We finally made a character that Jim Henson wanted in the first film.”
Brian Froud
What caused him to say that? Well, when describing all the work that goes into creating and making puppets come alive in New York Magazine’s Vulture, it says:
… Read the rest“By allowing for the erasure of puppeteers, green screen also proved useful in creating puppet characters that couldn’t be realized in the original film, like Lore, a pile of animated rocks that has a special place in Brian Froud’s heart.
In the 2013 book Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones, we read time and time again that Jim Henson was trying to rid himself of a, “puppet prejudice”.
The idea that people thought that puppets were just for children.… Read the rest
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via The TV Dudes:
… Read the restTHIS INTERVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR ‘THE DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE’
Join Les as he chats all things Dark Crystal with Halle Stanford, President of Television at Jim Henson Company and Executive Producer on the new series!
Like for the 1982 Dark Crystal film, Brian Froud is the creature designer on Netflix’s prequel series “Age of Resistance” and now with his son Toby Froud , senior costume & creature supervisor .
In this excerpt from IndieWire they give us some insight into their Gelfling designs:
… Read the restBrian Froud only had to conceive of two Gelfling for the movie — the dark-haired Jen and the platinum-blonde Kira — but in the prequel series, he has a whole race of Gelfling to tackle and define within their respective clans.
via IndieWire:
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” Episodes 6 and 8.]…
… Read the restSeladon, the eldest daughter of the All-Maudra Gelfling leader, was first mentioned in the “Dark Crystal” novels by J.M Lee, and was only going to have a small appearance in the first episode of the Netflix series.