From Puppets to Performance Capture, with Frank Oz and Andy Serkis

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🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Yoda, Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster, King Kong, Gollum, and more – Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Adam Conover, astrophysicist Charles Liu, and Bill Nye explore the world of puppeteering and performance capture with Frank Oz and Andy Serkis. Listen you will. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/from-puppets-to-performance-capture-with-frank-oz-and-andy-serkis/ Photo Credit: muppet.wikia.com [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:28.0	And tonight we're featuring my interview with filmmaker and puppeteer, Frank Oz.
0:33.0	Now, if you don't know who he is, he's the man behind some of pop cultures, most iconic characters.
0:40.0	Like Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster, Yoda.
0:45.0	And joining us in studio just a little later is actor and motion capture, pioneer, Andy Circus.
0:52.0	So let's do this.
0:55.0	So, my co-host tonight, comedian Adam Ponebra, Adam.
0:59.0	Hello everybody.
1:01.0	Hi. Thank you very Adam.
1:03.0	You are creator and host of the TV show Adam Ruins Everything.
1:07.0	Exactly. And you're just proud of that.
1:09.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:10.0	Yeah, yeah. Well, we try to, you know, break down column misconceptions, tell people the hidden truth about, you know, everything that they thought they loved.
1:16.0	There's this temper, it ruins it for a second, but then hopefully we hope that by learning more, you know, you enjoy that at the end of the day.
1:22.0	And then, you know, I think it's really the geek that people don't want to bring to something that they're trying to enjoy.
1:25.0	Yeah. Yeah.
1:26.0	I'm the jerk at the cocktail party who just ran an article about that.
1:30.0	Not exactly.
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