I found a great article on making animatronics on howstuffworks.com. The article focused on the animatronics for Jurassic Park where made. They discuss how the Jurassic Park movies raised the bar for how life like you could make animatronics. The following is what is required to make an animatronic according to howstuffworks.com:
1. Put it on paper.
2. Build a maquette (miniature model).
3. Build a full-size sculpture.
4. Create a mold (from the sculpture) and cast the body.
5. Build the animatronic components.
6. Put it all together.
7. Test it and work out any bugs.
The article contains a lot of information, and I think it would be best to read the article if your interested. The article focused to much on the hollywood-way of making an animatronic..which is very much a large scale production as we know.
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