Where can i find free online marionette lessons?

Question

yeah so where can i find free online marionette lessons. I have someone that could teach me, but i rarley get to see her, so what do i do for the time being. And im talking about marionettes similar to these

http://www. czechmarionettes. com/Marionettes/Puppets/Kuk_Clown. html

Answer 1

I haven't found a lot of decent tutorials for wooden marionettes on the net. I'd first try the videos offered by Expert Village.com, which seem to be good. There's a number of instructions on stringing marionettes, etc. But you won't find any patterns for marionettes unfortunately. Don't know why, but no one posts these kinds of puppet patterns.

http://puppetsinmelbourne.com.au/index.p...

Couple of free marionette patterns/instructions - not for what you want, but could help you get started:

http://puppetsinmelbourne.com.au/index.p...

I would highly recommend investing in this book, I used it to help me start making my first marionette:

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Manipulatin...

There's also a lot of info available at Puppets and Stuff.com, a forum for puppet makers. A number of members do regularly share info on how they make their wooden marionettes.