First Animatronic Costume W.I.P

[pitchforknumb]

Hey guys. For Halloween this year, I decided to finally try my hand out on an animatronic. I've been wanting to do one for a long time now, and I feel that I've come to a point where I could accomplish one. With that, I will be going as a man that is mid-transformed into an ant. I choose this for several reasons. One being it should be a pretty easy start, since only the pinchers, and antenna's will be moving. And since I won't be having a person following me with controllers for the animatronics, it had to be something I could control with a 6-channel Pololu controller.
That being said, the first thing I did was make a rough sculpt in Blender of what I wanted the head piece to look like. After that I started on my very first maquette, so I could get a good visual on how I wanted the rest of the body to look. Going forward I think I'll be doing maquettes for all of my future ideas, since it's really easy, and fun to rough out a quick, 3-D, model to work off of. The maquette is sculpted in Monster Clay, and I plan on doing the full-sized head animatronic in WED clay. I plan to update this as much as possible as I go along. Hope you guys enjoy.
Here are some pictures of my maquette process.

 

[pitchforknumb]

Re: First Animatronic Costume

Here are the pictures of the Blender model I did. I'm debating on if I should add some more human features, like hair on the back of the head.

 

[Alpha Proto]

The more human features you add the freakier/scarier the end result will be.
You could have a human arm on one side nd an ant arm on the other. Same goes for the legs and eyes.
One ant one human.

 

[pitchforknumb]

I agree. In the maquette I have one hand mid-transformation, while the other arm is pretty much ant. I'm thinking for the mouth part of the ant, I'll add some human teeth. I'm planning on making my Ant look like this, as far as texture and hair go. I'm debating if I should add some human hair to the back of it. Thanks for your input.