Friday, 23 September 2011
Google doodle honours 75th Birthday of Muppet creator Jim Henson with interactive Muppets
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Google is celebrating 75th of birthday of great American puppeteer also well known as the creator of The Muppets, Jim Henson. As puppeteer, Henson performed in various TV serials, in Movies (such as “The Muppet Movie”) and also completed some advanced projects such as “Fraggle Rock”. He was also an Oscar-Nominated film director, also wins Emmy Award as TV producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson company, the Jim Henson Foundation and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
Google design beautiful doodles for Jim Henson and also tweeted on twitter as “Become a digital puppeteer today and tomorrow with our homepage tribute to Jim Henson!”
Jim Henson’s birthday is on Saturday, 24th Sept but Google started its party early on Friday night. The Doodle is make with six different characters designed by Jim Henson Digital Puppetry Studio and then hand over to Google Design Engineer, and bring it to us as Google Doodle.
Each colourful creature of Doodle sits over atop a small hand, press it and the the character will follow your Mouse movements. Clicking on character will make them like they talking. Actually, The characters of Doodle were designed by Henson’s company and modelled into Digital puppetry by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and then hand over to Google. The character at the second from left will through it’s spectacles as it will mouse over many times, as in following image.
"It's so fitting since Jim was such a prolific doodler," Mel Horan, art director at the Jim Henson Company, said in a video (below) about the doodle project. "His creative process began with a single doodle and evolved into these amazing characters he brought to life. We tried to capture that and merge it with Google's logo."
Google doodle for Jim Henson
Jim Henson’s Google Doodle
Google is celebrating 75th of birthday of great American puppeteer also well known as the creator of The Muppets, Jim Henson. As puppeteer, Henson performed in various TV serials, in Movies (such as “The Muppet Movie”) and also completed some advanced projects such as “Fraggle Rock”. He was also an Oscar-Nominated film director, also wins Emmy Award as TV producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson company, the Jim Henson Foundation and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
Google design beautiful doodles for Jim Henson and also tweeted on twitter as “Become a digital puppeteer today and tomorrow with our homepage tribute to Jim Henson!”
Jim Henson’s birthday is on Saturday, 24th Sept but Google started its party early on Friday night. The Doodle is make with six different characters designed by Jim Henson Digital Puppetry Studio and then hand over to Google Design Engineer, and bring it to us as Google Doodle.
Each colourful creature of Doodle sits over atop a small hand, press it and the the character will follow your Mouse movements. Clicking on character will make them like they talking. Actually, The characters of Doodle were designed by Henson’s company and modelled into Digital puppetry by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and then hand over to Google. The character at the second from left will through it’s spectacles as it will mouse over many times, as in following image.
"It's so fitting since Jim was such a prolific doodler," Mel Horan, art director at the Jim Henson Company, said in a video (below) about the doodle project. "His creative process began with a single doodle and evolved into these amazing characters he brought to life. We tried to capture that and merge it with Google's logo."
Google doodle for Jim Henson
Jim Henson’s Google Doodle
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