Thesis: I have been working on the IBDM stuff and its getting more interesting as through the 90's there appears to have been a resurgence in animatronics in film. I have also discovered a few titles of interest that I am going to look into as I have not seen them before.
Model: I have just created a pair of eyelids using thermo plastic resin set with hardener. I need to add the joints to the ends of the eyelids and then drive them using micro servos rigged with push/pull rods tapered with ball and socket eyelets. I will expand on this process more in the next update.
I am feeling pretty positive since the last session, I have moved into an era in the IBDM data base where there are plenty of animatronic features to examine between the 1980's and 1990's.
Evaluation
Which is a pretty big shock as I had always presumed that the 80's where sort of the height of animatronics not the 90's my research is starting to indicate that although aniamtronics where prevalent in 80's that the quality of film was actually quite low and the B-Movie style features seem to be implementing the medium more than the top sellers. Maybe this is just an over sight or a presumption that I have always had in my head as I know major VFX features started out in the 90's and I just presumed that they would have immediately taken centre stage. The model looks really cool with eye lids and I am getting pretty excited about seeing them in action. I have ordered some mirco servos to power them as I dont think there is any need to get standard size servos for this mechanism. Plus the mirco servos each have 1.8 kg of torque which is more than enough and probably around the same amount of power as the cheap servos I have been getting from chine in the past.
Analysis
The current situation of the project make sense to me, I am actually starting to enjoy doing the IBDM research now it is getting more interesting. I think the 60's-79 range was just a long slog and finding very few examples of animatronic work between them years. But now its getting a bit meater in terms of finding what I am looking for its not that bad. I also think the eye brows really give the character more expressional elements that I can see just be moving them by hand will give the character a lot more emotive expression.
Conclusion
In conclusion this has been more of an upbeat session, iv'e actually enjoyed doing the statistical research and iv'e enjoyed seeing how the character looks with eyelids.
Action Plan.
The action plan for the next session is to start putting the mechanisms in place for the eyes and testing them with the r.c remote
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