Animation : Animatronics

[GrizzlyAdams]

Anyone got anything on Animatronics/animation.

I want to create an animation using a humanoid. bit like claymation - but not as smooth or with such substancial characters.

I was planingot butcher an action man - but id rather not.

needs to be huminoid, needs to have flexible hands, needs to be highly manuoverable : human flexibility in ankles, wrists, shoulders.
Face should be recognisable, with moving eyes.

any ideas.

will need to take lots of phots, so will be using a digi camera.

this is a mock up SO having got the skills desired, I will use a proper animation camera setup type thingy.


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Grizz:

I dont care who wins an Oscar until I do

[Mods]

No, sorry :P

However, I'd like to use "animatronics" for a Jurassic Park spoof we're doing. I could just use Technic and put plasticine all over it, lol.


Mods

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Mark "Mods" Lovegrove
Anarchy Pictures

[eddie]

most models used for animation have a custom built and complicated armature inside them.
Ive had some success in simply using high gauge garden wire, as a frame, or skeleton, and then building a body around that.
Whatever you do, make sure it is the best quality you can make and it holds its positions. Plasticene is OK for hands, but I prefer wire hands, they last longer and are more reliable