Animata is open source real-time animation software, "designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances". The goal of Animata is to make it really easy to create scenes with digital puppets...

In this clip from Secrets of the Muppets Jim Henson explains how Waldo C. Graphic - one of the first digital puppet characters - was created and performed (the Waldo segment clicks in at about the 5:20 mark).

Touchless is the name of new multitouch software from Microsoft Office Labs. Much like the recently-blogged CamTrax software (see previous post), it allows you to use almost anything to create input for a computer via an ordinary webcam. MS Labs has...

Okay, this is very exciting...a company called Cam-Trax Technologies has developed software that allows almost any PC webcam (they say 95% of webcams are supported) to track up to four objects in real-time and with very high accuracy and reliability....

The digital puppetry series Sid the Science Kid (see previous post) is now on the air and TV Guide recently went behind the scenes to see how the Jim Henson Company creates it. The Wall Street Journal has also been covering the show's unique production...