My animatronics projects

MCSrobotics

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Hello, I hope this is the right thread for all my animatronic props, maybe some static ones too...
After seeing too many older movies with the real moving props (not cg), I have been testing some animatronic stuff myself.
Eventually all the props are going to be used in my short movies/clips... :rolleyes

First one is a futuristic worm robot, still building it. I think its inspired by aliens, tremors, spiderman 2. Its radio controlled, has 3 servos in it at the moment, 1 for controlling the claws/mouth and other 2 for bending the tail left/right + up/down. Havent really decided about the final look, but getting there. The tail is a bit clumsy, too small servos and too long tail for that kind of internal spine, but it works.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/dscf1731g.jpg/



 
Nice piece of kit man!:) first thing i thought of was tremors:DHave you any videos of it in motion?
 
Get a good skin made up for that thing and you could do a really believable cosplay out of it. Do some blood makeup on yourself and walk a convention being attacked by the thing. Maybe make a smaller/lighter one and have it attached to the back of your neck or something and wiggling around all day, and this one in your hand with you struggling with it. :D
 
Yeah, the mouth is going to move.

Actually i have no idea yet if, or how I´m going to cover the body/tail.
At the moment i like the look of the worm with the exposed links, maybe I´ll put some circuit board parts and wire between the links, haven´t thought about that yet! :D
 
Hi again! Been busy lately but I got some work done yesterday.
Made a needle type of thing for the head, I think of putting some red LED´s behind the sandblasted plexiglass piece to make it light up.

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