Guillaume – Cardboard Marionette

The head was the first piece I made. I really liked its character, so I decided to make a whole body for it, and make it a marionette. Inspired by a childhood toy, I decided on a form with two legs and no arms. I settled on a weird man-bird-thing.  The shapes of the body and feet were created kind of randomly and by convenience – however the shapes fell together I went with. I did manage to make little collars on both the body and the shoes.  He’s not rigged up as well as I would hope, his feet list a bit.  The main problem is that fishing line has inherent stiffness and can’t attach perpendicularly to a surface with any knots I know of.  But he works!