The Little Bird

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:01:09 +0000

If you know who Varys is, you’ll know he’s nothing without his “little birds.” They’re the ones who listen to the whispers of power and then tell him all about it.

Well, my varys needs some listeners too.

PuppetFist

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:06:17 +0000

Animation is one of my hobbies, but I’m not particularly good at it. It’s an art form that requires patience, practice, and subtlety - none of which appear on my resume. But just because I suck at something doesn’t mean I’m not going to do it. It just means that I’m going to lean on my other skills to lower the total suckage. In this case, that means programming and electronics.

PuppetFist is the project that will let me create decent quality animation quickly, by capturing a performance instead of slogging through all that tedious keyframing. And the performance part couldn’t be easier. If you can sock-puppet, you can PuppetFist.

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The Little Bird

PuppetFist