Joe Biden cursing on television is comedy gold! After the puppet was built Ian mocked up an old school TV that we could slide ol’ Joe into. Here’s some shots from the process…

We could not get enough puppet dancing. It’s just hilarious, you guys. You try capturing ridiculous footage of dancing puppets and cutting it out, it’s close to impossible.  So it is with great pride we give you MORE puppet dancing…

Here’s a clip of the guys workin’ the waves. Once the puppets were filmed, we just plugged them right into the raft… We had done some early tests that relied much more heavily on compositing effects into the background. They came out beautifully but ultimately we felt like they were too slick for this project…

This scene is super fast but we think it’s one of the funniest clips in the final video. It’s amazng how much effort can go into ONE second of screen time! Here’s some shots of Romney sculpting the puppet… Then there were the backgrounds to contend with! Here’s a sequence of Kevin doing the layouts,…

When we wrote Wikileaks into the Year in Review, they were a fairly big story, but nowhere near the story they are now! Here’s a shot of Kevin building the Pentagon… And here’s what the final set looked like and a clip of the guys in action. One of the best parts about making this…

Ian had done some early storyboards trying to figure out all the different ways that Obama and Biden could physically destroy the year 2010. We had them pop the 2010 balloon early, on but when we saw them beating the 2010 with sticks… we just knew it had to be in the short. As mentioned…

The only thing better then goofy puppets are goofy puppets being dramatic! We were really psyched to build a Shakespearean Obama puppet. Here’s a detailed look at the costume and a shot of the Swazzle guys in action…

Building the giant Easter Island head inspired versions of Charles Rangel, General McChrystal and Hamid Karzai was a task we couldn’t wait to see Justin undertake. He had never sculpted before but his drawings are just magnificent and we knew he’d be able to turn these three out like no one else. Here’s just a…

How do you make a big Broadway style prop? Foamcore, Gold spray paint, sparkly foam and a Bedazzler! Once Evan finished building the prop he passed it off to Ian for filming. Here he is withe some hooks and fishing wire lifting it into frame…

This sequence was ALL Romney! Here’s his little Glenn Beck puppet as it neared completion… And here he is showing us the mechanics of the Jihad Jane puppet… And here he is with Jeff working out the scale and the fall of the rainbow flag before Trish went off to sew it… Finally, all of…

Michelle Obama caught a bunch of slack this year for using Air Force Two to take 40 of her friends on a lavish vacation she took to Spain. So how do we illustrate it? Have the first lady dressed like a princess perched atop golden airplane! We went to the toy store and bought a…

There were a lot of high-highs and low-lows this year. To see a bit of both, we decided to include Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’ acquisition of The Washington Post (as well as his mentioning of the Amazon flying delivery drone?!?) as well as Paula Dean who probably regrets saying a certain word that cost her…

THis scene had two components. First, there were the puppets doing their business then there was actually giving them something to slide down. Here’s some raw puppet footage… For the plane, Jeff took the fuselage that he had built for the previous scene, added a wing and set it up on some rollers. You’ll notice…

This scene was a ton of fun to produce. First off, we got to see cute, fuzzy puppets getting physically abused which is always good for a laugh! Next, Ian got to make this beautiful little sculpture which we filmed to look 18 feet tall…. And finally, given that we are not really a puppet…

This scene started with some amazing character studies by Justin which were then transformed into three dimensions by Mike with nothing more then foam, plush and a hot glue gun… Notice Rahm’s sunken eyes peering out over Mike’s shoulder… There are also some things we try that don’t always work out the way we’d planned.…