Commercial Exploration Unit - Marionettes

A reply from Tony Sinnett has enlightened me to how carving may be approached differently in the industry. In an earlier post I showed a cla...

Below is a making of/behind the scenes video of a giant  30 foot tall doll created by the team at John Cox's Creature Workshop where the...

The Puppet Centre Trust library and archives house one of the most extensive collections dedicated to puppetry in the country. Back catalogu...

Pickled Image 'Pickled Image is a production company specialising in puppetry for live performance and theatre. Since 2000 the company h...

Common wood finishes include wax, shellac, drying oils (such as linseed oil or tung oil), lacquer, varnish, or paint. Other finishes called ...

After calling a number of wood mechants I still couldn't find a local source of Lime wood. The only other option I found is Jellutong wh...

I love the finish on this hand carved bear. After cutting out the object and removing most of the unneeded material a process called 'ch...

Below are Emily Hubbard's head sculpts of Will Murray from our first year of Modelmaking. These are the best examples of the stylisation...

I found a very helpful marionette carving tutorial on on a web site called Puppets in Prague. Professionals run workshops on building tradit...

Next stage to start researching into Lime wood suppliers and cost per carving blocks (or blanks is another common term used). Lime wood is ...

Texture These puppets below are from the production 'Or you could kiss me' by Neil Bartlett. The rod controlled marionettes were cre...

Character Found another good Czech website that specialize in wood carved marionettes. Compared to the website in the last post the puppet ...

Style After a quick search on the internet for marionette style puppets I found this great little website. To brothers Jan and Martin Ruzic...

Sanded Finish Another Pinocchio marionette in the 1940 Walt Disney style. An important point I hadn't realized until looking at th...

Here is a quick selection of images on the different kind of interesting styles of marionettes that have caught my eye. Marionette made from...

Research Blog!!! In this Commercial Expolration unit I will be carving a fully working stringed marionette using only tradition materials an...