I finally got the video done for the Automaton that I built for my parents for Christmas.  Here it is:
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https://youtu.be/PfO2Csb37QY
Not really a puppet, but pretty much the same skills used in building; It's like the puppet and the stage all in one!

Very cool!! Thanks for sharing!!

Wow! That is SO COOL!  The movements work great! They seem to be timed just right. I'm curious though...was there something written on the background? I watched it a few times cause I was trying to see if I could read it. Plus the music was cool.

Now that is to cool! not to mention just amazing.

I love it!

Man that is absolutely incredible! Where did you get the idea of portraying the action of falling?  I am just blown away.  Great job and thank you so much for sharing it with us.

No, there was nothing written on the background.  As for the idea, it came to me when I was making a Sysiphus Automaton for a local art show.  I realized that my expertise would be better suited to building automata that ran marionette-style figures.  Then the "weightlessness" of marionettes occured to me, and I've always wanted to make a scrolling background, so it all came together in this piece.  Another side project that I've wanted to work on is making automata to run the incomplete puppets that I've abandoned through the years, like my original heads with facial animation.  But I don't really like making the gears.  Hmmm...

Incredible! You must be an engineer on the side. Thanks for the share!

Really nice! Has you sent a link to http://blog.dugnorth.com/ ?
For those that do not know this blog and are interested in automata, I strongly recommend to visit it

Love it. That is all...