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Waldo Gifford Leland (July 17, 1879, in Newton, Massachusetts – October 19, 1966) was an American historian and archivist whose work for the Carnegie Institution and the Library of Congress was instrumental in the founding of the National Archives.
Regulars included previous characters Kermit the Frog, Gonzo, and Link Hogthrob in addition to new characters Digit, Leon the Lizard, Lindbergh the Kiwi, Vicki, Clifford, Jacques Roach, and a computer-generated Muppet named Waldo C. Graphic. Waldo was created through a collaboration between Jim Henson's Creature Shop and Pacific Data Images. [1]
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. [1] As many as 10,000 artists [2] were employed to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, Index of American Design documentation, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. [3]
The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.
Waldo's strength as a computer-generated puppet was that he could be controlled by a single puppeteer (Steve Whitmire [6]) in real-time in concert with conventional puppets. The computer image of Waldo was mixed with the video feed of the camera focused on physical puppets so that all of the puppeteers in a scene could perform together.
During these years of transition, Pacific Data Images moved away from the motion graphics market, and focused its attention on commercials and 3D visual effects for feature films. Noted for its commercials for the first Pillsbury Doughboy created with computer graphics. [11] Pillsbury was the first company to move an established icon to CGI. [7]
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Waldo C. Graphic, a character from the theme park attraction Muppet*Vision 3D Waldo Pepper, title character of the film The Great Waldo Pepper Waldo Franz Schaeffer (more commonly known as Franz Hopper ), a minor supporting character from the French animated television series Code Lyoko and its cancelled 2013 live-action/CGI show Code Lyoko ...