The Lubovskis

The Lubovskis are a characterdesign i developped from marionettes. It actually started
2 years ago, when i wanted to create dolls for a little puppet theatre. I
like marionettes, because they're moving weirdly. I also like watching "Augsburger Puppenkiste" an original style of making movies with dolls. One of the stories of the "Augsburger Puppentheater" called "Urmel aus dem Eis" is now turned into a computeranimated movie in Germany. When i started to build all these dolls, i decided not to make so many surreal characters, because i wanted to create a sitcom, not being so extremely far from reality. I imagined a living room, like one can see in most sitcoms, and a kitchen. The Family called the Lubovskis did not contain the main characters. Actually, i have a lot more dolls than the one shown above. They are 21 dolls altogether, spending their sad life in my grandmas basement, waiting for the spotlight they' ve been built for.
In the first three month of this year, i wrote five screenplays each for a 20 minutes episode imagining these characters living in a small town, having all sorts of trouble. Realising these screenplays all alone would be an ambitious projekt, so i concentrated on very short stories, like Mr. Ringbo eats the soup, wich are about 40 seconds long, minimalistic and funny. During my "Mr.Ringbo eats the soup concept ", i get all sorts of stupid ideas, and so i thought, "why not pick just one family out of these marionette characters". So i picked the Lubovskis, which i like best, as a starting point for a three minutes format with just one completely crazy family ( during my first attempt in writing stories for my marionettes, i tried to write stories with a not so spectacular plot, giving the characters boring jobs, having them live a boring life, to make the characters more real, but it didn't work. Now, i'm about to create out-of-their minds fanatics, when i'm working on the stories, and the strange thing is, that now, they seem pretty real to me ) ...the Lubovskis don't look like marionettes anymore, because i modelled them in a 3d programm called Animation Master.
For the Lubovskis, i'll probably use a more simlistic style, than the picture shows...
For me, creating stories for marionettes is pretty hard, as marionettes cannot do so many things...Basically, they can walk and talk,...well, they can walk, and stand,...