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Norma
V. Toraya, aka Crankbunny, is an animation director for Curious Pictures
in New York City and the Electric Company in Toronto, where she works on commercials,
music videos, television intros, and documentaries for all sorts of different
clients. Her interest and experience in paper puppetry grew through working in
animation. She is known for her hand-drawn, cut-out and computer animated creations.
Her work is described as painterly, dark, and always magical. Her animation work
and paper puppetry can be seen online at
www.crankbunny.com
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Paper
puppetry has never had someone so zealously dedicated until Paul Palooza started
exploring its rare curiosities. A very small quirky world filled with amazing
creatures, unusual storylines and enchanted paperie. Puppets have mansions. Dancers
are made out of paper. Animals threw massive parties. Giant sea creatures boring
people into panic.
The universe of paper puppets needed someone like
Paul Palooza to expose this wonderful impossibility of very handy craftwork.
Palooza felt extremely his paper puppet karma and a natural instinct to travel
allowed him to discover as much as possible. His rarest discovery was really just
a case of mistaken prioritized snacking. Palooza had heard of rapid pillow fighting
breaking out in the Andes Mountains. Details have never been specific – but
his booked plane flight didn't serve the honey roasted almonds he expected. He
sorted himself out quickly onto another flight which did serve the correct delicious
sweet-salty treats. But by jumping on an unknowingly smaller commuter flight Paul
ended up just 2 hours east of London. "Who would have guessed that before
me awaited the most prized puppet jewel – and found under a common wet tea
stained cozy in Bristol!" Paul explained about discovering the White
Pescao Pin of Oooral. The famous piece of puppet jewelry had been lost for 25
years due to inaccuracies in Finnish bird postage stamps. Luckily the PLOO Resolution
of 1962 was quickly drawn up and a world war was avoided.
Sadly, it's
been a decade since Paul Palooza disappeared off the coast of the Pupuyakarta
Javanese Islands on a small surfing expedition. The mystery and void left behind
caused a wave of sadness and silence within the paper puppet world.
Paper
Puppet Palooza is meant to capture the essence of a man through his most
memorable discoveries in paper puppetry. He was an eccentric explorer, but also
a captivating showman and lover of puppets.
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