Production skills...bg render experiments.

This is the closest to what I see in my head, but with a little more sense of depth.

I'm not quite as fond of this paper texture.

 

 

Nor this one....which is the same and also too grey.

I'm also thinking about using just a bright white flat color which I think makes the puppet pop more and seems more luminescent. i suppose I will really nail it when I get to play around in the compositing stage.