Tilt Tv

The Tilt TV series was meant to be an Italian version of the Muppet show, and was realized with a strong degree of perfectionism and a very pioneeristic technique for its time. The puppets were made in France with a very flexible rubber latex that gave them a wide expressive range, and each of them required (alongside the voice actor) two animators, one to wear the arms to move them, and another one to use his own hand to move the eyelids to provide the facial expressions. Every scene was shot twice through the Chroma Key technique: the animators first performed it against a piece of blue cloth with the puppets, then the mini-set where the characters' stories took place was filmed, and a computer eventually superimposed the various shots. Given that all animators and the voice actors had to be perfectly timed with each other, it could require ten takes to shoot a single scene.

Spin-off Giallo Tilt (1995)