There is more needed than characteristic fabric for the puppets’ robes. We need a scene, in fact: several. For example a very essential one shows the house of the wood-chopper, which is in the forest (logic, right?) and also made from wood.

Luckily I found the PERFECT wood and lots of it in the woods by my house.

Josiane Keller “wood for the wood-chopper’s house” (2015)

Only things that have been lying on the ground in the woods tend to have anything from fungi to maggots on and in them. So to get the stuff nice and sterile without washing and brushing and potentially breaking it, next to the visual difference of a clean hut in the woods versus one that looks like it is actually happening and therefor NOT CLEAN (a typical animation mistake is to create an environment that is way to clean to be real), I stuck the whole bunch of it a couple of minutes into the microwave.

Josiane Keller “wood in the microwave” (2015)

and I did a test clip with the wood-chopper by the fire, that is neither figure nor robe nor set of that scene are anywhere near ready, that is why it is called a “test-clip”, because I am testing how it roughly could look like:

Josiane Keller “test clip – wood-chopper by the fire” (2015)

So the tiny brownish head in the blue robe is the wood-chopper sitting by the fire, brooding over a beautiful all in white woman he once saw dancing in the winter forest. (If you can’t see any of that right now, it’s probably because you are lacking imagination…. No, in fact, if you can’t see it right now that is because this is basically a sketch. I am having a certain vision how it is supposed to look like and I am not sure yet which way I go with it, so if you do not happen to have my vision in your head for some reason from these images alone you will hardly know what I mean at this point.

I am actually testing a turn of the head, where he is looking at his house-guest, another pretty lady (but more of that later). This is a cinematography question: in order to express a certain mood and psychological situation, how would a young wood-chopper sit by a fire and turn his head towards a certain lady (whilst actually deeply in thought about another one?)
There are obviously several possibilities how one would turn one’s head in such a case, and several possibilities from what angle to film that.