Dave Chapman

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324 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 8 Jul

Dave Chapman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Out of Frame · Puppeteer: Who makes Star Wars’ BB-8 come alive? · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

So you would put a puppet on, and yes, you could amuse your friends doing what we're doing now, which is just talking.

And you sort of go, okay, so that works.

And then you have to translate all of that up to a video monitor.

So you put the puppet character above your head, traditionally, and you put a video monitor up on a smartphone, and you look at what it's doing and work within the frame.

No.

Yeah, I did.

I brought in a box.

This is my Apple box, right?

It's an Apple box.

I can't decide whether this is interesting or not.

This is... They're used in the film industry standard.

Everyone uses them.

You have hundreds of them on a film set.

But my one is for sitting on.

So what you use... You stack them up and the grips strop them together and they can make platforms or they can make somebody taller on a reverse shot because it's weird because the actor...

is smaller than the other actor or something.

So they used to, and they'd chalk things up.

They might put some props foreground.

So like, say, if we were doing a scene right now and the designer wanted there to be a plant foreground, what's the quick fix?

Grab a couple of apple boxes.

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