Character animation question

Hi all,
i need some help to try to understand which technique was used to do this video "puppet",
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRNd6K8kS4M
i mean witch techniques i can use to reach this result?
Someone tell me that adobe guys done this kind of characteer animation at nab some time ago...
thanks to anyone want to help me.

THe filmmaker comments might have some suggestions but they are mostly political.
You might be able to contact the filmmaker directly.
That pieces uses a digitally updated version of classic cel-based animation. Any good book on animation will include all you need to know. Some of the scenes are entirely synthesized but most are made of carefully designed individual drawings. The jiggle can be synthesized or created manually. Some effects are obviously done in AE or another compositor. Other effects were simply edited in a timeline like Final cut or Premiere.
The most critical factors: Preproduction planning and storyboarding. Every frame of that piece was carefully designed by people who understood their tools. And they worked for a director who understood the pipeline.
bogiesan

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To all,
I have a question about how to handle the asynchronous call when a UIView animation is created. My setup is as follows. I have a method in a view controller that get user input from and then makes external http calls. Since the calls could take a few seconds I wanted to notify the user when the call started and ended. In order to show this message I created a simple animation block in a method which I will list below.
The animation simply slides a box up with a label on it and then slides it back down. A pop up slider if you will.
This is my method which does the http processing simplified down.
My problem is that since the animation call is asynchronous the and takes 4 seconds total to complete. If the HTTP processing takes less then 4 seconds (at times it does) the next displayMessage is called and my animation gets screwed up.
The thoughts I have had were to have a check to see if the animation was running which is set true in the pop up reveal and false in the popup hide. Then I could simply sleep my thread if the boolean was true. But this wasn't working since the animation stop block was never called.
I need to bounce ideas of you guys cause I don't know how to get past this basic problem.
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[self displayMessage:@"Parsing address"];
//Actual http processing code here which invokes external service
[self displayMessage:@"Address processed"];
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frameIn.origin.y = localContainerView.bounds.size.height-(messageHeight+20.0f);
view.frame = frameIn; // set the new frame
[UIView commitAnimations]; // Animate!
[view release];
- (void)animationDidStop:(NSString *)animationID finished:(NSNumber *)finished context:(void *)context
self.transitioning = FALSE;
[self HideMessage];
- (void)HideMessage
NSInteger messageWidth = 150;
NSInteger messageHeight = 60;
UIView *localContainerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]];
CGRect frameOut = CGRectMake((localContainerView.bounds.size.width/2)-(messageWidth/2),localConta inerView.bounds.size.height+messageHe ight, messageWidth, messageHeight);
[UIView beginAnimations: nil context: nil]; // Tell UIView we're ready to start animations.
[UIView setAnimationDelegate: self]; // Set the delegate (Only needed if you need to use the animationDid... selectors)
[UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector: @selector(clearMessageView)]; // example of a selector called with context when animation finishes.
[UIView setAnimationCurve: UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut];
[UIView setAnimationDuration: 2.0f]; // Set the duration to 4/10ths of a second.
self.messageView.frame = frameOut; // set the new frame
[UIView commitAnimations]; // Animate!
}

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