Cable controls for the full body baby arms.
The full body baby.
I designed and built the cable controlled arms and hands.
The cable controlled hands.
The hands were made up of many individually cast plastic pieces with internal cables.
The cable controllers for the baby hands.
They operated the wrists, thumbs, index fingers, and then the remaining fingers were grouped.
These are all of the pieces made for 'Gremlin's II" at Rick Baker's Cinovation Studios. I worked mostly on the small Mogwai characters and the animation control system.
This is a 2-times scale Mogwai character for close-up shots that required full facial articulation.
He was a fun character to build and to puppeteer.
Two puppeteers on the arms and body.
And five puppeteers for the head and face.
Since this puppet was for one shot, it made sense to approach it using simple mechanisms and controls and using more puppeteers.
One of the tiny Mogwai servo controlled heads.
Harry from the 'Harry and the Henderson's' TV Series
I rebuilt the facial mechanics and the radio controller for the TV series.
Harry had to be controlled by one puppeteer and the facial mechanics had to be robust and easy to service for the 3+ years series.
The animatronic head for the walk-around suit.
This head had eyes with corneal bulges and contacting eye lids so you could see the eyes moving under the eye lids.
This is the fiberglass core for the 'Might Joe Young' head. The actor wears this head, so all of the servo motors and mechanisms have to fit inside the remaining space inside the core.
The fiberglass core with facial mechanics for the Demon head.
All of the servo motors and mechanisms have to fit inside the core and still allow room for the actors head.
The Demon head with the foam latex skin.
There are some replicas of machines from Frankenstein's Laboratory that we made for Rick Baker.
Polar Bear facial mechanics for a commercial.
I helped a friend (make-up effects artist Brian Penikas) prepare for a Sci-Fi Convention in LA. That's me! (long time ago)