Robotic spirit of Earth - Cyrah - Completed

[Jehudah Design]

Good evening, inhabitants of RPF.

The title of this topic is saying that I'm building a robot woman named Cyrah. She's not really a robot, but a static piece that looks like a robot. Why am I building this? Because I bought the only female mannequin I could find to use it for a female Tusken Raider costume, then I realized that the mannequin didn't really fit the costume at all. The female Tusken Raiders pretty much stand there like a sack of potatoes, unlike the mannequin who's head was turned to the side, the torso was bent to the side and backwards, also the hands were standing almost straight out.

I tried heating the parts to bend them, but that didn't work, and now the paint job on the neck was ruined, so noone would probably buy it. I then grew an idea in my mind that I could saw the thing apart and reposition things, but not having the Tusken Raider costume on such a thing would reveal a very strange sawn up and bondoed 60's mannequin.

Why not turn it into a robot woman instead, they pretty much always have panels with gaps and mechanical joints and whatnot, so this is what I started to build. Once the head was chopped off, I reconfigured it to look a bit like S.H.O.D.A.N. the evil computer woman from the System Shock games.

Pretty much all the features of the face were altered, and it didn't turn out too bad. Now I have at least gotten her body back together again after having cut that apart too.

I decided not to make any joints on the legs (less work this way..), but I want to make joints at her elbows so that she can hold glowing objects and other robots, stuff like that, but I have no idea what to use as joints that will keep the arms in the position they are given. I have a flexible metal tube that might work, but am not sure if this will eventually break. The joints must make the forearms move sideways and up/down.

Please come with all your ideas, comments would be nice too

Thanks.


-Dark Side Sith Lord.

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

I like the general concept and quite a few of your current modifications.

I don´t like the hair and the "tattoo" on her forehead. Both look too unintentional, very un-robotic. I´d say tone it down, remove the tattoo, give her a decent haircut, implement more "mechanics" and you are on a good way.

Maybe a bit more of that "bjork - all is full of love"-design ?

Fun project, curious to see it when it´s finished.

Michael

 

[Jehudah Design]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

I didn't really know what to draw on her face, so I just drew that on the concept drawing, then I just painted it onto her. I actually don't like it that much either, but when I look at it I think "what the fudge is that?", and that makes it all more mystical which is somewhat the theme I'm going for. Perhaps drawing a line from her hair down to the symbol will make it look better and not like a stick figure.

I have a costume that I use white wigs for, and I needed some more white hair to fill them in, then I saw a really long black wig that had at least one white stripe on it that I removed, then thought that I could use the wig on her. I wanted her hair to be that long and dark too, but originally planned on using wires, but having only wires would reveal too much of her scalp, making it appear as if she's got some sort of sickness or something. A new robot came out some while ago that actually had black hair like this, so then I guess it does look robotic now, and humans aren't silver colorer either, so that sort of gives it away as a robot.

This is somewhat what I had in mind of her looking, this is Shodan from the system shock games.

I want her to look like she just came out of a wall of mechanical and electronic parts like Shodan probably did there. So far with all the unsymmetrical stuff and bad paint reactions, it sort of looks like that:rolleyes

 

[Knightjar]

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Coming on well! I agree about the forehead symbol - doesn't really work. But I like the hair.

Could we see a closeup of the neck?

 

[Jehudah Design]

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Thanks. Well, it does sort of bother me that it looks like a stick figure, but I edited it away in photoline, and it did not look good at all without it, nor did it look good by adding additional stripes. I'll see what else I can do with it, otherwise it seems to at least be working, only strangely.

The neck consists of a joint that allows it to go up/down/left/right, plus a part that stops the neck from going too far to the sides. A chrome cylinder at the front is what positions the head up and down. Since the neck of the mannequin had to be removed when it could not be reshaped, the neck is now just a couple of metal plates with a whole lot of parts on them. This is the best closeup I could find.

 

[Rebo]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

Dremel the lines and get some bright blue leds inside her. Great project so far:thumbsup.
Hope you don't mind the image edit.

 

[Jehudah Design]

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Thanks. Actually that looks really cool, but unfortunately the plastic is too thick most places, and half her head with the face is actually a solid chunk of white plastic, but I really did like that glowing effect, so perhaps it would be possible to paint over the stripes with a glowing paint. I don't mind the edit at all, looks cool.

In fact, this glowing actually makes the symbol on her forehead look better with the rest of the lines, the ends flow with the angles of the cheek stripes that also end suddenly, the top angles fills it all out nicely too, and the horizontal stripe turns it away from looking like an arrow pointing towards "insert computer brain here".

 

[Contec]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

What material did you use to resculpt her face?
Im going to make a robotic female statue also but it going to resemble the robot from bjork's video All is full of love.

 

[Jehudah Design]

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I just used plain old bondo and grinding tools. Lots of small features that somewhat vanished after the paintjob, but good enough.

Ah yes, I watched that video yesterday, actually thought myself about making one like that, will be cool to see yours when it's done.
Robot lesbians...never saw that coming...:lol

 

[Contec]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

Im bidding on a teenage girl mannaquin right now. I hope win so i can start resculpting it.

 

[Jehudah Design]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

Good luck with that. Be sure to get one that's standing straight. Getting this one's body to line up is hell right now...

 

[Contec]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

Good luck with that. Be sure to get one that's standing straight. Getting this one's body to line up is hell right now...

Yeah, Here is a picture of the one im bidding on.

It looks pretty straight but I am going to make so much changes to it that that will work out anyway. And its only 56 inches tall.

What im dreaming about :

 

[Jehudah Design]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

Looks good, should work well. Beware though that some mannequins are made in molds that spin around, and that causes plastic to form into weiners that stick to the walls inside of it all over, making it really hard to work with. Hopefully that one was made differently.

56 inches should be a good size for something like that, and it will probably get taller too once you cut it apart and add joints and parts. So far mine is over 6 feet tall, almost as tall as me, and I barely have room for myself as it is.

 

[dropshipbob]

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Instead of glow in the dark paint, how about UV paint?

Then you could display it in regular light, and have a black light near by to make the lines appear to glow.

 

[Jehudah Design]

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That could work. My father had a marker before that the color could not be seen from, but glowed brightly blue in UV light. I actually used this on my Obi-Wan action figure to make it look like the ghost of him.

If nothing can be found, then photo editing will work:rolleyes

 

[Walter]

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What did you use for the neck movement? I am really curious as to how you did that.

I think this is a great project btw, very unique.

 

[Jehudah Design]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

Thanks for the kind words Actually all the stuff on the neck is just scrap parts from all over the globe, but the main way it works is by moving from side to side, up and down with a part possibly from a bycicle, then there is an adjustable chrome rod at the front made up of various other parts that adjust where the head is positioned up and down. A protection cover for a Canon typewriter carbonribbon was used to make sure the head does not move too far to either side.

Most of the parts do nothing, they are just used to fill the whole area in, and most are covered with wires of various sorts. I'll throw together a tutorial of this all once it's done, so it will probably be easier to see what I did there.

 

[Vaderman]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

Cool!
How about a circle on the forehead, sort of like Dr. Manhattan? The image you have looks like a Native American mark to me and throws it off for me.
After seeing the image of what you were inspired by, I get it, but just don't care for it.
If not cut, lit lines (which I think would look very cool) maybe a few drilled holes with light or LEDs? Or, an open panel somewhere on her, with a flap that reveals the lights and more detailed greeblies, like for a repair or adjustment?
Very interesting project!

 

[Jehudah Design]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

Thanks. I won't be changing that mark anymore, I like it now. And what you say about it looking like a native American is actually a good thing since I wanted to base it a bit off of that also.

Like all those posters with native American chicks standing in a breeze with eagles and wolves coming out of their hair and hands...I wanted this to be just as mysterious like that, only from a more futural technological cyber-stuff sort of way, having photos of her with light and circuits coming out of her hands and that sort of things. Well, we all like different things
I don't think I'll be adding any lights to this. The eyes were supposed to be glowing, but that couldn't be done when the face was solid plastic, so I'll just throw in some lights here and there by editing.

Cyrah can see everything you do on the Internet​

The photo shows the gaps at her lower body that are now also there on the real thing. This will contain some circuit boards and wires, all sorts of stuff to give it away as a robot.

 

[Jehudah Design]

Re: Cyrah The Robot Woman

Oh my, they removed the drawing at Photobucket, maybe I should have drawn the hair to go over her jumblies...

Anyway, I need some ideas what to use for joints at her elbows, I don't have anything at the moment and don't know what could be used either.

@Contec - Did you win that auction for the mannequin? I'd like to see some photos from your project too, if you have a mannequin for it that is.

More work on my robot chick will proceed soon.


-Dark Side Sith Lord.