Cool idea Author and good luck to you.

Great concept and execution.

Absolutely very well done author ! Love the details here

great execution and fabulous imagination...very well done author

Really nicely done author!

great idea and very well done

nice thinking and chopping...excellent job

yes agree with the former comments,.....super well done creation.....

excellent work ,very nice ,good luck
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Absolutely stunning, love the colours, the magic feel about it and definately the little woody necklace lol.... my fav so far author

Hard feelings, I like it

Great idea and great execution

This one has a different concept, very creative and well executed. GL!

Here comes high quality entry as I said . Unique work and well executed bro! I love the design of the necklace thingy . Good luck

great .........

nice job, great manipulation skills, love it

superb work.....well done author

great job author !! good luck

Great job

wow..... excellent

Great image.

OMG...stunning work.

excellent chopping here, well done. and somehow, your username even fits the theme.

Congrats gamemastertips

Congrats!

Congrats for your first place! It's really a great entry!

Ben, congratulations!

Congrats, awesome work

congrats on the 1st winning,......well deserved.....

Congrats - well done puppetizing!

Congrats! for 1st place. Very well executed

Congrats on a very deserving first!

Congrats Ben! your win was easily foreseen

congrats nice work

congrats

Congrats Ben,well deserved 1st place...)

Congrats!

Congrats buddy! fantastic entry

Thank you all so much!! I never expected to get such great feedback....and thanks for the awesomely high score!!

Congrats!! Excellent!

congrats

Brilliant. Very well done, congrats on your win!

this looks familiar

Very nice cuts. But at this angle, I think that anklets (of the legs) cut faces can't appear.

Wow, and the title, all very cool.

LOL!! I have this exact source image on my desktop waiting to be edited for this exact contest. Looks like I'll be searching for a new source now. Good job, good luck!

U did great job here author...

Lovely work -- I too was looking at this for a source -- guess I've got to get faster (LOL)

incredible work!

Congrats for your second place, Rufkut!

Congrats!!!!

congrats........

Thanks for all your support guys, I appreciate it.

Congrats on second!!

Congrats! for 2nd

Hehehe I liked this one! Congrats on ur second place!

Congrats for your second place

Congrats

Congrats...

Congrats!

Congrats!!

cheers guys

congrats

Very well made! The puppet especially. Expressions and features are perfect.

Very nice Author

Nicely done, especially the color on the hand.

Fantastic job author ! Great job with the "puppetization". Well done !

very very cool work author,details are great...gl

thank you all. this was a really fun contest!
the strings were the hardest part, hand painting them and giving them that twisted look...i'm no good with the pen tool at all. :P i really need to learn that.

and thanks for the fav lamantine soo appreciated!

I thinks this is quite good just wish the lines of the joints were darker to show it more as puppet joints.

Glockman, i contemplated making them darker. but the legs are covered with tights, so the joints wouldn't be as visible through the opaque tights she is wearing. if i'd have made it so she wasn't wearing tights, the joints would be more visible.

however, i may darken the lines in the hands...just a bit. the ones around the mouth i think are plenty dark as they are. :P

Thanks for the comment!

Author, the strings are impeccible. Don't say you don't know how to use the pen tool.

thats the funniest thing...i actually didn't use the pen tool for this at all. :lol: i just used a soft brush.
so thank you for the compliment gamemaster! means alot!

thats the funniest thing...i actually didn't use the pen tool for this at all. :lol: i just used a soft brush.
so thank you for the compliment gamemaster! means alot!

Very cute and with a story behind the image; I love it!

Love the mood/colours. Good luck

cooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllll

Congrats for your third place!

Congratulations, Jade!

congrats on the3nd..........

Congrats for 3rd place jadedink

Congrats, jadeink!! Well-deserved.

Congrats! for 3rd place

Thank you all for the wonderful comments and support!

Congrats Jade for your third place

congrats

Congrats...

Congrats!

Congrats!!

WOW! thanks everyone for the congratulations! means so much to me *blush*

congrats

LOOOOOL!! Is that you John Stewart? I knew someone would do something like this...

Waiting was worth. But pls, check your sources, some of them are duplicated with different names.

Fixed the source links.

this is very nice,.....love the idea,.......and funny too......well done......

is that the book of protocols of zion......? LOLs....

nice resurrection

fannnnnnn tastic

based on the illuminati?

he he funny

Exquisite.

Fantastic...

Well done author

great idea !!

ahahah now thats funny

congrats

creative idea !

Congrats!

Well done Dan! and Congrats!

Very cool. The girl's pose and expression really give this a lot of crazy energy befitting a puppet show. The points where the strings attach to the puppet need to look more like there's some sort of physical attachment there. I think creepy doll eyes (a tad too wide open, staring straight ahead and not at us) would create a more complete puppet look.

It's indeed a good source picture find . The result is -apart from some edges which imo look a bit too soft- at least as good if not better than the tutorial you referred to. I'm just not convinced about how the head is connected to the neck (why is the neck chopped instead of just the head?) and I'd add some connection dots (or something alike) for the wires. But nice start for this contest. Good luck!

Edit: the manga-eyes look pretty good

@Dan and Waz: thanks for suggestions! Changes were made (doll eyes and connection rings). I hope it's good now!

i like it is nice and say somthing ,good luck

Fantastic stuff. nice job author!

Good entry !!
Gl author

This is a well executed work... good luck to you

very very cool work...face expression is priceless...and a bit scary,puppets always make me scared...a bit...

Whoa. O.o Creepy indeed. Nice work! There's just a type in the title: Marionette is with 2 't's.

EDIT: Ahhhh pardon me, then. XD Please carry on...

@Ben: It's in Portuguese... that's why I wrote puppet too. Even so, thanks a lot!

Great execution and nice work

Well done author, GL

Love the flowing design as well as exciting colors - really gives feel of a puppet show. GL

congrats

Great Work Sweetie! congrats