Late last night I finished junkie monkey. Here is a 3 minute video of her trying out some moves on the kitchen table. It's lovely when you first finish a puppet, however rough, and get to bring it to life for the first time.
I'm pleased with the range of movements I can get with this marionette: standing, crawling and sitting. Ideally the knee joints would be a bit looser, but it's definitely helpful to have a rough puppet to play with while we try out ideas for the show. The control is an upright one normally used for human marionettes (animals tend to have horizontal controls). Although the monkeys will probably need to crawl as well as sit and stand, because they are performing monkeys I think they will spend more time upright, so it is likely that the controls will a slightly modified version of the upright control.
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