Marionettes: Learn how to Make and Work Them

That is the whole e book of marionette craft — from making heads and setting up our bodies to stringing the marionettes on one- and two-hand controls, working the marionettes, and placing by yourself exhibits. 4 books by Helen Fling have been introduced collectively to make this quantity. Their wealth of illustrations, methods, useful hints and stable, easy-to-follow recommendation will go far towards making your performances profitable, satisfying, and inventive.
Within the first part, full particulars are given on making puppet and marionette heads — creating them, molding them, casting them, making them out of plastic wooden and pâpier-maché, portray them, and including character particulars similar to noses and wigs. The second part tells, in equal element, easy methods to make palms, ft, legs, arms, and our bodies with quite a lot of strategies for becoming a member of the elements collectively, taping, portray, ending, and inserting screw-eyes for mechanical perfection. The third part exhibits easy methods to assemble marionette controls, easy methods to string your marionettes, and easy methods to manipulate your controls for the actions, postures, gestures, and methods. Costume and character particulars are additionally lined. By the top of this part each you and your characters needs to be able to carry out. The ultimate part covers the main points of marionette present manufacturing — constructing a stage, lighting, surroundings, sound results, curtain-drops, and presentation. One full play, with full particulars on stage props, marionettes, and background, is included. Greater than 400 useful illustrations present each step of marionette craft from conception and development to efficiency.
Novices will discover this e book to include every thing they should know to assemble marionettes and current their very own exhibits. Puppeteers will discover the chapter on head-making equally suited to their craft. Those that have some expertise with marionettes will discover the sections on methods, alternate procedures, {and professional} strategies to vastly enhance their skills to construct marionettes and create quite a lot of new results and profitable marionette performances.