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In Pécs there is a classic little movie theatre who wanted to commission a personalized PSA animation with a local artists called Renyagyár. I had the pleasure of animating her work into this short PSA. Can any movie buffs catch the Easter egg I've hidden in here? 😄
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Huge thanks to @noldio__com for choosing Penrose Audio for this project! 🙌✨
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🎭 Submitting Digital Kathputli — here's the story behind it.
When the Config Makeathon was announced, I kept thinking about what I wanted to build. I asked myself one question: "What feeling am I uniquely equipped to digitize?"
The answer came from a childhood memory.
Growing up, I was fascinated by Rajasthani Kathputli — traditional string puppetry that's been alive for over 1000 years. Not just by the puppets, but by the puppeteers. How they gave life to something lifeless using only their fingers.
I wanted to bring that feeling into the browser.
So I built Digital Kathputli — an interactive string puppetry experience where your hand becomes the controller, your fingers become the strings, and anyone can become a puppeteer.
🎪 The experience takes you through:
🎭 A playful onboarding
🪆 Choosing your puppet
🖐️ Performing using live hand tracking
👆 Move your index finger to animate one arm.
🤌 Curl your ring finger to move the other.
✋ Raise your hand to lift the puppet onto the stage.
📸 Strike your favourite pose and download a vintage Rajasthani postcard as a digital souvenir.
🛠️ Built with:
Figma Make — the complete interactive experience
MediaPipe Hand Landmarker — real-time hand tracking
Figma Weave — bandhani-inspired stage, theatre seal, and puppet illustrations
Suno AI — custom Rajasthani folk opening music
GitHub — asset hosting
💡 What I learned
Building this project meant constantly experimenting, breaking things, and iterating.
The biggest challenges were testing every camera interaction on the published site because the Make preview can't access webcams, working around browser audio restrictions, and simplifying an illustrated puppet rig into something that animated smoothly.
The biggest takeaway?
Better context beats more prompts.
🎭 Try the interactive experience: Digital Kathputli.figma.site
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💻 Best experienced on a desktop/laptop with a webcam.
Raj and Rani are ready.
The stage is set. 🎪
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