Juggler Continued
Well I said I was going to keep this up and I haven't.
I just posted the second test video on Facebook so I am a bit behind here. I will try to catch up a little. Most of this drama has played out on face book so I wont be going into too much detail here.
So I spent a lot of time trying out different kinds of mechanisms to get him to move the way I wanted which was basically throwing balls back and forth and maybe move his face a little. Then I found this magazine which I ordered and it had all kinds of great ideas and information in it (Thanks to Dug North)
By stealing ideas (learning) from this magazine I was able to get the mechanics to work pretty much the way I wanted. Below is the video of the first test for the juggler where I had all the mechanical parts but put together just a temporary test body:
Video not uploading so you can see the videos here:
According to facebook that was around May 16th.
Then I went to work sculpting the actual face and body. The hardest part was making him look the way I wanted while fitting in all the mechanics and having them still function.
Here is a picture of him in progress:
I used paper clay made of toilet paper, joint compound, white glue flour and linseed oil for most of him. I like it cause it is pretty non toxic and cleans up easily. I can sand it with a dremel tool or files and if I screw it up and can just put some more back on and try it again. His clothes are cloth dipped in a paper mache gesso made of similar ingredients.
So I wont go into the tedium of trying different ways to get the balls to move (I ended up using one central piece with the three balls attached to springy wire things to get the best movement) and his mouth and eyes
( I got a lot of help from my FB friends on the automata page on that).
As of today this is what I have. This is the second test video. Now I just have to paint him and figure out hat colors and all that.
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