Realistic Puppets: Depth of Emotion

In my story, there is a puppet master who uses disturbingly realistic marionettes in his theater. His goal is to create a marionette that is wholly indistinguishable from a real person, aside from the strings. Currently, he is able to fully replicate the movements of a human being using a complex version of classic marionette control bars.

The puppeteer is unhappy with his current puppets, however, as they cannot express emotion in the same way as a real actor could. So, he has decided to use a flexible sheet stretched over a frame to emulate the face, with strings attached to the points where a normal face would warp to form emotions. These facial strings will be controlled by another set of control bars that his assistant will handle.

So, my question is, is it possible to fully emulate a human's facial expressions using a set of marionette control bars? If not, what is the maximum number of points the puppeteer can hope to control at one time?

posted almost 6 years ago

Bewilderer‭

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