DIY Animatronics
LEARNING RESOURCES
Stan Winston School of Character Arts
www.stanwinstonschool.com/
You Tube — Stillbeasts Studios
www.youtube.com/user/StiltbeastStudios
My Website and You Tube Channels
www.halstaff.com/
www.youtube.com/user/halstaff?feature=mhee
EEVblog Soldering Tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYz5nIHH0iY
Essential Mechanism Examples
www.robives.com/essentialmech
Forums
www.hauntforum.com/index.php
http://letsmakerobots.com/
Books and Magazines
Nuts & Volts
www.nutsvolts.com/
DC Props Prop Building Books
http://dcprops.com/store/books-dvds/
Prop Ideas
http://omarshauntedtrail.com/Props/props.htm
Pandemic Cemetery Prop Plans
www.pandemichauntproduction.com/prop-plans.html
Figure 10. Detail of Santa’s arm movement mechanism.
Figure 12. An example of the components that may come
in a complete pneumatic kit
( www.evilusions.com/store/kits/lid-opener-kit-detail).
Figure 13. Simple pneumatic pop-up.
Figure 11.
Close-up
of the
armature
used to
move his
head back
and forth.
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