{"id":1793,"date":"2017-04-13T19:25:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T23:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2017-04-13T21:16:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T01:16:25","slug":"cara-maleck-how-to-zip-a-two-headed-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Cara Malek: How to zip a two-headed dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/artsandsciences.osu.edu\/sites\/artsandsciences.osu.edu\/files\/styles\/news_event\/public\/research-science-sundays-cara-malek%20copy.jpg\" alt=\"John Beacom\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" \/>Character riggers create digital puppets for animation, the code that brings to life your favorite personalities like Po in <em>Kung Fu Panda<\/em> or Toothless in <em>How To Train Your Dragon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cara Malek<\/strong> worked as a rigger on both of these films and will share her experiences <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandsciences.osu.edu\/news-events\/events\/how-would-dragon-fly-science-art-rigging-animated-characters\">on April 23 as part of Science Sundays<\/a> at the Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p>Listen in to hear how Cara and her team overcame technical hurdles like how to &#8220;zip&#8221; together the two-headed\u00a0Hideous Zippleback dragon (Barf and Belch) in <em>How To Train Your Dragon<\/em> or whether Shrek&#8217;s bodily odors should be\u00a0colorless or not (we aim high on this podcast, people).<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6778\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1793-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19_Malek.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19_Malek.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19_Malek.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19_Malek.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1793-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft-2017-4-19_Malek.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft-2017-4-19_Malek.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Character riggers create digital puppets for animation, the code that brings to life your favorite personalities like Po in Kung Fu Panda or Toothless in How To Train Your Dragon. Cara Malek worked as a rigger on both of these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[77,444],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-to-attend","category-original-craft-productions","tag-ohio-state-university","tag-science-sundays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}