Chris Sharpe Explains How to Make a Web Show

Filmmaker and rising new media guru Chris Sharpe (Sex Machine) has posted a great behind-the-scenes look at producing the Hilah Cooking! At this time he has posted the first half of the article which discusses the gear that is used which includes several great no-budget filmmaking tips and tricks.  Go here to learn something today.

Also if you're into cooking or food in general be sure to check out Hilah Cooking! It's the bee's knees, I tells ya.

HENSON ALTERNATIVE PRESENTS S.U.D.S.

The Henson Alternative label has created a new upcoming show called Simian Undercover Detective Squad or S.U.D.S. The teaser can be found below with the actual series being released in the Fall if 2009 at Film.com.

This is how the series is being described:

"S.U.D.S." follows the inept undercover adventures of a grizzled orangutan detective and his rook ie simian partner in a human world.

For more details head over here and The Henson Youtube page for more coolness.

FOOD PARTY

I'm quite late in discovering this weird gem but other blogs have done a better job at mentioning this unique and brilliant show. It's called FOOD PARTY and it's a food show meets puppets in a world similar to Pee Wee Herman's fun house but stranger and dare I say funner.

From Wikipedia:

Food Party is an American television series, which airs on the IFC in the United States.^[1]

The show is a pseudo-reality cooking show filmed on an elaborate, technicolored cardboard kitchen set. Each episode features multi-course, out-of-this-world gourmet meals cooked up by hostess Thu Tran and a cast of colorful puppets for arriving "celebrity" guests^[2].

The show was originally produced and filmed in Cleveland for two web series based episodes, and later relocated to Brooklyn for the final web series episodes and six IFC produced shows^[3].

Here is a sample of the show (warning sorta NSFW):

SPOOK HOUSE DAVE

What do you get when you mix up a stew of old soap operas, puppets, and classic monsters? You get SPOOK HOUSE DAVE. (more details here)

Spook House Dave's Bleeding Heart
by Spookhousedave

(via SECRET FUN BLOG)

SOCK BABY

This is not a hundred percent a puppet-centric web serial. However, it does feature a sock puppet who is just called Sock Baby whose destiny it is to be the Sock Baby Jesus of the Sock World. It makes sense if you watch the series.

Here is a little behind the scenes info for you: the series is created by Doug TenNapel who among many things created EARTHWORM JIM and the memorable cult game NEVERHOOD which used stop-motion animation for it's graphics. Recently he was behind the short-lived cartoon series CATSCRATCH.

If you dig the entire series then you will glad to know that a fourth episode is in the works which will feature the talented Doug Jones (HELLBOY II) and John and Dan Heder (NAPOLEON DYNAMITE).

If possible, can anyone drop me some info on the stars of the first three episodes. I know that they play a larger role behind the scenes but I can't seem to find any info as of yet.